http://abcnews.go.com/sections/World/Relationships/gay_abuse_040412-1.htmlApril 12 — On that fateful May 2001 night when a ghastly watershed in official Egyptian homophobia was set, Maher Sabry missed the party on the Queen Boat, a floating disco moored on the Nile.
The Egyptian writer and theater director was too tired to drag himself to the popular Cairo gay hangout that night, so he stayed home.
It was a decision that was to change the course of his life.
In a crackdown that gripped the country and provoked widespread international condemnation, Egyptian security officials swooped down on the party and arrested about three dozen men. More than 50 of them were then put on high-profile trials on charges ranging from "devil worshipping" to "habitual debauchery." ...more...
Makes me sick at the stomach reading it... Looks like the xtian
fundies in this country actually have ALOT in common with the muslim
radicals when it comes to homosexuality. Something else to rub into
their faces when they claim that they are "better" than muslim
radicals. Treating humans like this is WRONG. :mad:
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