EGYPTIAN GAY NEWS
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4 March 2009
The Council for Global Equality calls on the United States to apply pressure on Egypt, Kuwait and other countries over gay rights
BayWindows.com
3 March 2008
Egyptian actress who plays the part of a lesbian in the film Bedoon Raqaba (Uncensored) says that practise of homosexuality in Egyptian Schools is spreading
AlBawaba.com
10 December 2008
A letter to the Daily News complains about anti-gay prejudice in a newspaper article
The Daily News
13 July 2008
An Egyptian contributor to MidEastYouth.com ponders Muslim attitudes to homosexuality after reading about Parvez Sharma’s new film Jihad for Love
MidEastYouth.com
16 June 2008
New film documents the lifes of Egyptian gays facing persecution and discrimination
OhMyNews.com
30 May 2008
Summary of Amnesty Article - Click on link for full report - Since October 2007 Egyptian police have arrested 12 men suspected of being HIV positive. Five of them were held in hospital chained to their beds for weeks. Most were forced to undergo anal examinations. Nine of them are now serving prison sentences. Amnesty calls on the Egyptian government for their release.
Amnesty.org
2 April 2008
Hilal Nakiboglu Isler makes a belated but refreshingly different review of Alaa Al Aswany's "The Yacoubian Building", notorious for its' depiction of the closeted gay editor of Le Caire newspaper. Did you know that Al Aswany still works as a dentist in the Garden City disctrict of Cairo ?
desicritics.org
2 April 2008
Brief reference to the Egyptian movie ‘Heena Maysara’ with its' lesbian scenes which made it into third place at the Cairo box office taking over 16million LE, giving even the blockbuster "Al Jazeera" a close run
Waleg.com
2 April 2008
"My journal was a real help with my complicated gay life" writes Egyptian blogger one year after starting.
ramsesthesecond.livejournal.com
26 March 2008
Egyptian student blogger discusses his research on HIV prevention at university and the problems of tackling HIV prevention and the Egyptian public's attitude towards AIDS and homosexuality
ramsesthesecond.livejournal.com
12 March 2008
Amnesty International condemns the Egyptian government's ongoing detention and prosecution of men said to be gay and HIV positive
GayNewsBits.com
10 March 2008
European MEP takes up the case of detained Egyptian HIV positive men and attacks Egypt's unjust laws on homosexual conduct
UKGayNews.org
25 February 2008
A gay student at the American University in Cairo talks about gay life in the country and also mentions that Gayegypt.com.....(serves) a vital role in sustaining the underground network of gay life in Egypt."
Incidentally, while it's true that the website is hosted in the U.K., some of us including your news editor uploading these links are working right now inside Egypt.
University of California at San Diego - Guardian
25 February 2008
Shocking level of ignorance about HIV among Egyptian medical students who, according to the article, get only two hours training on the subject in six years of studies
Middle East Online
23 February 2008
"Denial on the Nile." - Editorial on Egypt's recent rounding up and detention of HIV positive men
Guardian Unlimited
15 February 2008
Egyptian police secretly arrest HIV positive men sending them to special "detention hospitals" and allegedly chaining them to hospital beds.
Fox News
10 February 2008
"Out of the closet and onto the screen."
Egypt Today reviews the controversial new film on gay muslims
Egypt Today
28 January 2008
Egypt bans books from its' international Cairo book fair including at least one mentioning homosexuality
AFP
21 January 2008
Two leading Argentine gay rights campaigners get married and choose Egypt for their honeymoon.
AP article on PR-inside.com
16 January 2008
A new documentary, Living Dangerously, on gay life in the global south includes an interview with Egyptian Ashraf Zanati who spent 13 months in prison after the infamous police raid on the Queen Boat discotheque in May 2001. “My sexuality is my own sexuality," he tells the interviewer, "It doesn’t belong to anybody. Not to my government, not to my brother, my sister, my family. No.”
Best Documentaries Blog
15 January 2008
Lesbian kiss in the film Heen Maysara, recently released in Egypt, is denounced as a "zionist conspiracy."
Muslimah Media Watch Blog
13 January 2008
A brutal killing of two teenagers in their father's taxi in Texas turns media attention on a prominent Muslim and Egyptian immigrant, who allegedly previously defended "violence, even deadly violence" against women and homosexuals.
Dallas Morning News
11 January 2008
A lesbian kiss shocks Islamists.
Brief news article on three new Egyptian films including Khaled Youssef's controversial "Heena maysara" (Until Things Get Better).
Variety
7 January 2008
Lesbian kiss too hot for Egypt's religious scholars
Queerty
6 January 2008
Egyptian professor says it's the Bible and not the Quran which prescribes a death penalty for gays
articlesbase.com
4 January 2008
Youthful Egyptian televangelist preaches on "the need to be compassionate towards homosexuals"
Kansas City Star
3 January 208 -
New asylum chance for gay Egyptian.
Gay City News.
2 January 208 -
Male belly dancing makes a comeback in Egypt
Bloomberg.com
29 December 2007
Egyptian actress Summaya Al Khashab who plays the role of a lesbian in the recently released “Heen Maysarah” admits she has been divorced for two months, but unfortunately (for any lesbian fans) a London paper says she has a new relationship with another man.
AlBawaba.com
29 December 2007
In "Whatever Lola Wants" - a new film set in Cairo and showcased at the 2007 Dubai Film Festival, lead character Lola has a gay American-Egyptian bartende, Yussef, as her confidante. Yussef helps to bring her to the attention of Zack, a graduate student by giving her the star role in a dance routine at his restaurant.
The Daily Star. - May be difficult to return to QueerEgypt.com from this page without reentering url address.
9 December 2007 -
Article implies that Pope Shenouda, head of the Egyptian Coptic Church, is worried about the support within the Episcopal Church for same-sex unions.
Virtueonline.org
7 December 2007 -
Egyptian preacher expelled from Bahrain for calling Kuwaitis "gays and sodomists".
Al Arabiya
2 December 2007 -
Muslim televangelist Moez Masoud speaks of the need for compassion towards the gay community. " In his TV show, Masoud preached that Islam forbids gay sex. But he argued that people who feel such urges cannot help feeling them. He said that those desires were a test from God, and that resisting them was a sign of strength and faith. He urged Muslims to show compassion rather than condemnation."
YaLibnan.
1 December 2007 -
Egypt fights ignorance on HIV/Aids.
BBC.
12 November 2007 -
Egyptian doctor claims to "treat" gays. "No child is born homosexual." he claims, "It is either social or as a result of some childhood sexual abuse." .
Al Arabiya.
12 November 2007 -
Another Sodomy Torture Court Case involving the Egyptian Police .
Independent Online.
5 November 2007 -
Egypt jails police after sodomy torture video .
AFP.
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