QUEEREGYPT.COM2012-02-10T08:48:11Zhttp://queeregypt.com/atom.aspxQuick Blogcast.tag:www.queeregypt.com,2009-02-14:62ff0cb2-3540-42c7-964c-a0de0ee09bb9Alisdare Hickson2009-02-14T16:19:00Z2009-02-14T16:19:00Z<P> <A href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Owt73bme7s8"><IMG height=160 src="http://us.st12.yimg.com/us.st.yimg.com/I/gayegypt_1967_49343" width=300 align=left border=0></A><STRONG><FONT size=4><FONT color=#000080> <BR></FONT></FONT></STRONG><SPAN style="COLOR: #ff0000"><FONT size=4><STRONG><FONT size=5> Adults 18+ Only</FONT></STRONG><BR></FONT></SPAN><FONT size=4><BR><STRONG> <SPAN style="COLOR: #151598"><A href="http://www.egyptiancock.com/"><FONT size=3>Click here for forums</FONT></A></SPAN></STRONG></FONT></P>
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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.<BR><I>Amnesty.org</I></A><BR><BR><A href="http://desicritics.org/2008/04/02/142752.php">2 April 2008<BR>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 ?<BR><I>desicritics.org</I></A><BR><BR><A href="http://www.waleg.com/numbers/archives/011581.html">2 April 2008<BR>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<BR><I>Waleg.com</I></A><BR><BR><A href="http://ramsesthesecond.livejournal.com/25719.html">2 April 2008<BR>"My journal was a real help with my complicated gay life" writes Egyptian blogger one year after starting. <BR><I>ramsesthesecond.livejournal.com</I></A><BR><BR><A href="http://ramsesthesecond.livejournal.com/25216.html">26 March 2008<BR>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<BR><I>ramsesthesecond.livejournal.com</I></A><BR><BR><A href="http://gaynewsbits.com/2008/03/12/new-indictments-in-egyptian-hiv-crackdown/">12 March 2008<BR>Amnesty International condemns the Egyptian government's ongoing detention and prosecution of men said to be gay and HIV positive<BR><I>GayNewsBits.com</I></A><BR><BR><A href="http://www.ukgaynews.org.uk/Archive/08/Mar/1001.htm">10 March 2008<BR>European MEP takes up the case of detained Egyptian HIV positive men and attacks Egypt's unjust laws on homosexual conduct<BR><I>UKGayNews.org</I></A><BR><BR><A href="http://ucsdguardian.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=9656&Itemid=4">25 February 2008<BR>A gay student at the American University in Cairo talks about gay life in the country and also mentions that <FONT color=red>Gayegypt.com</FONT>.....(serves) a vital role in sustaining the underground network of gay life in Egypt."<BR><I>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.</I><BR><I>University of California at San Diego - Guardian</I></A><BR><BR><A href="http://www.middle-east-online.com/english/?id=24504">25 February 2008<BR>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<BR><I>Middle East Online</I></A><BR><BR><A href="http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/khaled_diab/2008/02/denial_is_the_worst_medicine.html">23 February 2008<BR>"Denial on the Nile." - Editorial on Egypt's recent rounding up and detention of HIV positive men<BR><I>Guardian Unlimited</I></A><BR><BR><A href="http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,330808,00.html">15 February 2008<BR>Egyptian police secretly arrest HIV positive men sending them to special "detention hospitals" and allegedly chaining them to hospital beds.<BR><I>Fox News</I></A><BR><BR><A href="http://www.egypttoday.com/article.aspx?ArticleID=7859">10 February 2008<BR>"Out of the closet and onto the screen."<BR>Egypt Today reviews the controversial new film on gay muslims<BR><I>Egypt Today</I></A><BR><BR><A href="http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5gOa74fuVqqqgMSD61oKfpxqMeiug">28 January 2008<BR>Egypt bans books from its' international Cairo book fair including at least one mentioning homosexuality<BR><I>AFP</I></A><BR><BR><A href="http://www.pr-inside.com/argentine-gay-couple-defies-country-s-civil-r397162.htm">21 January 2008<BR>Two leading Argentine gay rights campaigners get married and choose Egypt for their honeymoon.<BR><I>AP article on PR-inside.com</I></A><BR><BR><A href="http://bestdocumentaries.blogspot.com/2008/01/dangerous-living-coming-out-in.html">16 January 2008<BR>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.”<BR><I>Best Documentaries Blog</I></A><BR><BR><A href="http://muslimahmediawatch.blogspot.com/2008/01/missing-point.html">15 January 2008<BR>Lesbian kiss in the film Heen Maysara, recently released in Egypt, is denounced as a "zionist conspiracy."<BR><I>Muslimah Media Watch Blog</I></A><BR><BR><A href="http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/dn/opinion/columnists/rdreher/stories/011308dnedidreher.1ab6eb80.html">13 January 2008<BR>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.<BR><I>Dallas Morning News</I></A><BR><BR><A href="http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117978907.html?categoryid=2523&cs=1">11 January 2008<BR>A lesbian kiss shocks Islamists.<BR>Brief news article on three new Egyptian films including Khaled Youssef's controversial "Heena maysara" (Until Things Get Better).<BR><I>Variety</I><BR><BR><A href="http://www.queerty.com/sinful-cinema-makes-waves-in-egypt-20080107/">7 January 2008<BR>Lesbian kiss too hot for Egypt's religious scholars<BR><I>Queerty</I></A><BR><BR><A href="http://www.articlesbase.com/religion-articles/in-the-bible-but-not-in-the-quran-4-kill-the-gay-297712.html">6 January 2008<BR>Egyptian professor says it's the Bible and not the Quran which prescribes a death penalty for gays<BR><I>articlesbase.com</I></A><BR><BR><A href="http://www.kansascity.com/255/story/430728.html">4 January 2008<BR>Youthful Egyptian televangelist preaches on "the need to be compassionate towards homosexuals"<BR><I>Kansas City Star</I></A><BR><BR><A href="http://www.gaycitynews.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=19165557&BRD=2729&PAG=461&dept_id=568864&rfi=6">3 January 208 -<BR>New asylum chance for gay Egyptian.<BR><I>Gay City News.</I> </A></FONT><BR><BR><A href="http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601085&sid=atLloMTgRlEg&refer=europe">2<FONT size=3> January 208 -<BR>Male belly dancing makes a comeback in Egypt<BR><I>Bloomberg.com</I> </FONT></A><BR><BR><A href="http://www.albawaba.com/en/countries/Egypt/220422"><FONT size=3>29 December 2007<BR>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.<BR><I>AlBawaba.com</I></FONT></A><BR><BR><A href="http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=1&categ_id=4&article_id=87717"><FONT size=3>29 December 2007<BR>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.<BR>The Daily Star. - <FONT color=green><I>May be difficult to return to QueerEgypt.com from this page without reentering url address.</FONT></FONT></I></A><BR><BR><A href="http://www.virtueonline.org/portal/modules/news/article.php?storyid=7226"><FONT size=3>9 December 2007 -<BR>Article implies that Pope Shenouda, head of the Egyptian Coptic Church, is worried about the support within the Episcopal Church for same-sex unions.<BR><I>Virtueonline.org</I> </FONT></A><BR><BR><A href="http://www.alarabiya.net/articles/2007/12/07/42604.html"><FONT size=3>7 December 2007 -<BR>Egyptian preacher expelled from Bahrain for calling Kuwaitis "gays and sodomists".<BR><I>Al Arabiya</I> </FONT></A><BR><BR><A href="http://yalibnan.com/site/archives/2007/12/more_preachers.php"><FONT size=3>2 December 2007 -<BR>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."<BR><I>YaLibnan.</I><BR><BR></FONT><A href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/7120737.stm"><FONT size=3>1 December 2007 -<BR>Egypt fights ignorance on HIV/Aids.<BR><I>BBC.</I><BR></FONT><BR><FONT size=4><FONT color=navy><A href="http://www.alarabiya.net/articles/2007/11/12/41565.html">12 November 2007 -<BR>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." .<BR><I>Al Arabiya.</I><BR><BR><FONT size=4><FONT color=navy><A href="http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=85&art_id=nw20071111210316612C885820">12 November 2007 -<BR>Another Sodomy Torture Court Case involving the Egyptian Police .<BR><I>Independent Online.</I><BR><BR><FONT size=4><FONT color=navy><A href="http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5jso93UPkmAqkvcrzdrGyLvR77vpQ">5 November 2007 -<BR>Egypt jails police after sodomy torture video .<BR><I>AFP.</I></A></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT>YOUTUBE FAVOURITEStag:www.queeregypt.com,2009-02-14:de5d0cb8-9a8a-4c91-a428-653d1aff331dAlisdare Hickson2009-02-14T16:14:00Z2009-02-14T16:14:00Z<CENTER><FONT size=5><FONT color=navy>YOUTUBE FAVOURITES</FONT></FONT><BR><FONT size=2><FONT color=navy>( no implication intended regarding the sexuality of anyone depicted. )</FONT></FONT><BR><BR><BR><BR><BR><A href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vady9MQFORk"><IMG height=120 src="http://us.st11.yimg.com/us.st.yimg.com/I/gayegypt_1976_1254712" width=170 align=right border=0></A> <A href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vady9MQFORk"><FONT size=4>Egyptian super heavy weight body builder, Tarek Elsetouhi, flexes his muscles.<BR>11 January 2007 (02:46) <I>May Require Login.</I></A><BR><BR><A href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NSZRyrRWYuo"><FONT size=4>Fit Egyptian guy works out in front of the camera.<BR>(00:20).</A><BR><BR><BR><BR><A href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fSiwmtnkZsY"><IMG height=120 src="http://us.st11.yimg.com/us.st.yimg.com/I/gayegypt_1976_1264658" width=170 align=right border=0></A> <A href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fSiwmtnkZsY"><FONT size=4>Egyptian body builder "Tamer El Shahat" showing off his perfect chest!! .<BR>4 October 2007 (00:26)</A><BR><BR><A href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E0FD7Dcwu_Q"><FONT size=4>Dancing in the streets of Cairo.</A><BR><BR><BR><BR><A href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7PRbEWKLhL8"><IMG height=120 src="http://us.st12.yimg.com/us.st.yimg.com/I/gayegypt_1966_4403" width=170 align=right border=0></A> <A href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7PRbEWKLhL8">"Cairo Calling" - a short film.<BR>07 February 2007 (08:30)</A><BR><BR><A href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kXhuvHe6jgQ"><FONT size=4>Clips of various Egyptian bodybuilders.</A><BR><BR><BR><BR><BR><BR><A href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dmYbpjYPosk"><IMG height=120 src="http://us.st11.yimg.com/us.st.yimg.com/I/gayegypt_1976_1273779" width=170 align=right border=0></A> <A href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dmYbpjYPosk"><FONT size=4>"A Plastic Plate" - A short film about a Gay person with HIV in Egypt<BR>9 March 2007 (08:12).</A><BR><BR><BR><BR><BR><BR><A href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=idpHWyqjUS8"><IMG height=120 src="http://us.st12.yimg.com/us.st.yimg.com/I/gayegypt_1949_312105" width=170 align=right border=0></A> <A href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=idpHWyqjUS8"><FONT size=4>An Arab and Puerto Rican make a nice duo<BR>26 February 2006 (02:27)</A><BR><BR><BR><BR><BR><BR><BR><BR><A href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=efSuOvsa2wg"><IMG height=120 src="http://us.st11.yimg.com/us.st.yimg.com/I/gayegypt_1976_1301881" width=170 align=right border=0></A> <A href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=efSuOvsa2wg"><FONT size=4>Part 1 of Egypt's National AIDS Program Video. It's slick and slightly scary and talks a lot about raising awareness and "unsafe sexual practises" but is woefully lacking (or shall we say evasive) on specifics such as the need to use condoms. <BR>31 October 2007 (06:44).</A><BR><BR><BR><BR><A href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9IrbE1jCRxI"><IMG height=120 src="http://us.st11.yimg.com/us.st.yimg.com/I/gayegypt_1976_1283051" width=170 align=right border=0></A> <A href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9IrbE1jCRxI"><FONT size=4>Part 2 of Egypt's National AIDS Program Video. Interesting and informative about views about AIDS on the Egyptian street but lacking on much needed specific advice on safe sex. At least they provide a phone number +202 3152801. <BR>31 October 2007 (08:34).</A><BR><BR><BR><BR><A href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3y9RZ8nmnA4"><IMG height=120 src="http://us.st11.yimg.com/us.st.yimg.com/I/gayegypt_1976_1292696" width=170 align=right border=0></A> <A href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3y9RZ8nmnA4"><FONT size=4>Part 3 of Egypt's National AIDS Program Video. "Don't fall into temptation.....Know more. Read More." Well you won't know a lot more about how to have sex safely from any of these videos but at least they provide a phone number +202 3152801. <BR>31 October 2007 (06:44).</A><BR><BR><BR><BR><BR><BR><A href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rjkERo6GCgE"><IMG height=120 src="http://us.st11.yimg.com/us.st.yimg.com/I/gayegypt_1977_386637" width=170 align=right border=0></A> <A href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rjkERo6GCgE"><FONT size=4>American Television interviews sexologist Dr. Heba Kotb about her "Big Talk" weekly show on Egyptian televison.<BR>9 May 2007 (15:31). </A><BR><BR><BR><BR><BR><BR><A href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Owt73bme7s8"><IMG height=120 src="http://us.st12.yimg.com/us.st.yimg.com/I/gayegypt_1967_49343" width=170 align=right border=0></A> <A href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Owt73bme7s8"><FONT size=4>English language trailer for the controversial Egyptian film<BR>"The Yacoubian Building".<BR>8 May 2007 (05:34)..</A><BR><BR><BR><BR><BR><BR><BR><BR><A href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WbEM6soTHOA"><IMG height=90 src="http://us.st12.yimg.com/us.st.yimg.com/I/gayegypt_1951_111937272" width=120 align=right border=0></A> <A href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z71M4WDozaE"><IMG height=90 src="http://us.st12.yimg.com/us.st.yimg.com/I/gayegypt_1951_111944024" width=120 align=right border=0></A> <A href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z71M4WDozaE"><FONT size=4>Happy Birthday Hosni Mubarak.</A><BR><BR><A href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WbEM6soTHOA"><FONT size=4>26 years is enough !</A><BR><BR></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></CENTER>EGYPTIAN BLOGStag:www.queeregypt.com,2009-02-14:8fa00464-1a09-4301-a81b-36504dcd2177Alisdare Hickson2009-02-14T16:13:00Z2009-02-14T16:13:00Z<CENTER><FONT color=navy><FONT size=5>BLOGS</FONT></FONT></CENTER><FONT size=4><BR><BR><A href="http://theegyptblog.blogspot.com/2007/02/im-gay-but-whats-next.html">20 February 2008 (when last checked on 3 March 2008)<BR>Young Egyptian blogger from Heliopolis, Cairo, writing under the heading "The oppressed life of a gay guy in Cairo"<BR><I>theegyptblog.blogspot.com</I></A></FONT>DISCUSSION FORUMStag:www.queeregypt.com,2009-02-14:dfb183df-18eb-479f-afc1-130b9222e0d3Alisdare Hickson2009-02-14T16:11:00Z2009-02-14T16:11:00Z<CENTER><B>FORUM DISCUSSIONS ON OTHER WEBSITES</B></CENTER><FONT size=4><BR><BR><A href="http://www.lonelyplanet.com/thorntree/thread.jspa?threadID=1570459&tstart=90">March 2008 onwards<BR>Are there any gay hotspots in Cairo or elsewhere - is it safe ?<BR>Beware of possible offensive remarks/comments.<BR><I>Lonely Planet - The Thorn Tree</I></A></FONT>BLOGtag:www.queeregypt.com,2009-02-14:bce543bb-34b0-4096-9fba-93544260ea24Alisdare Hickson2009-02-14T14:10:00Z2009-02-14T14:10:00ZThis section is for my own comments - to be posted later..tag:www.queeregypt.com,2009-02-13:b8f2a5aa-d3a5-4d3e-aa88-671a635807e9Alisdare Hickson2009-02-13T16:07:08Z2009-02-13T16:07:08Z<P><FONT color=#000080 size=2><STRONG>WHY NOT VISIT OUR SISTER SITES<BR><A href="http://www.gayegypt.com/">GAYEGYPT.COM</A><BR><A href="http://www.gaybangladesh.com/">GAYBANGLADESH.COM</A><BR><A href="http://www.gaynigeria.com/">GAYNIGERIA.com</A><BR><A href="http://www.kenyanmen.com/">KENYANMEN.COM</A><BR>or <A href="http://www.gaylahore.com/">GAYLAHORE.com</A> ?</STRONG></FONT></P>