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GAYEGYPT.COM & GAY FORUM LINKS - ADULTS ONLY HERE GAYEGYPT.COM SUPPORTS THOSE IN THE GAY COMMUNITY WHO ARE PEACEFULLY PROTESTING AGAINST THE MILITARY COUNCIL. THE MILITARY MUST BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE FOR MUCH OF THE RECENT BLOODSHED AND WE CALL ON GAYS AND LESBIANS THROUGHOUT EGYPT TO JOIN PEACEFUL PROTESTS ON 25 JANUARY. SAY NO TO MILITARY TRIALS. SAY NO TO THE CONTINUED DETENTION AND ARREST OF DEMOCRACY ACTIVISTS. SAY YES TO REAL FREEDOM, REAL DEMOCRACY AND SOCIAL JUSTICE. THE MILITARY MUST HAND OVER POWER NOW. GayEgypt.com's photographs of the ongoing revolution in Egypt here. 23 January 2011 - FACEBOOK blocks access to Gay Egypt account. Facebook is now insisting on us providing evidence that our facebook name Gay Egyptians is authentic and that we send an ID or passport with this name before they will allow us access to edit our facebook page. Obviously this is not a real person's name so we can no longer edit the account. IN COLD BLOOD. FOUR DEAD AND ONE BOY CRITICAL AFTER POLICE SHOOT TO KILL IN TAHRIR SQUARE. TUESDAY 20 DECEMBER. WE HAVE PHOTO EVIDENCE. What object is this police officer carrying ? It's just 10 minutes prior to serious bloodshed. Four were killed and one boy critically injured in Tahrir. It might be just a misreading of the photo but it looks like a pistol. It is possible that it might have been a tear gas pistol but a tear gas cannister must be fired up in the air and not directly at a person or crowd unless you don't mind killing them. Also witnesses on the ground showed us what they claimed were spent live bullets. This photo taken very approximately 4am 20 December 2011. The photos below are what our photographer witnessed before and after dawn of the morning of Tuesday 20 December. Photograph 1. Just a few minutes before the fatal shootings officer can be seen apparently aiming pistol at crowd then close to museum. Communal copyright by our photographer can be shared with acknowledgement. View this photo on Flickr.  2. Also only shortly before the shooting - Protesters join hands to try to pacify emotions and to prevent any provocative action by either side. Communal copyright by our photographer can be shared with acknowledgement.  3. Just seconds prior to the fatal shootings only two in the crowd appear in any clear way to be possibly throwing stones and they are not in a position where the killings occur. Most are walking with their hands by their side or in their pockets. Communal copyright by our photographer can be shared with acknowledgement  4. Just seconds after the fatal shootings. There are appear to be four places where men have fallen. None of them seem to be in places where anyone was obviously throwing a stone. Communal copyright by our photographer can be shared with acknowledgement  5. Minutes later a car arrives to pick up the fallen. Communal copyright by our photographer can be shared with acknowldegement  6. Even some three hours after the killings just after dawn a wide stretch of still wet blood stretches some six metres along the road. Communal copyright by our photographer can be shared with acknowldegement  
GayEgypt.com supports those in the gay community who are peacefully supporting the second revolution against Tantawi and the generals. Our photos (some shown left & below) over 2 days (17 and 18 December) show how protesters, journalists and even an old man were pelted with rocks and beaten by security forces. View them all on flickr starting with the first photo or select from his Flickr gallery of the Egyptian revolution No one pictured has any connection with this website.We again witnessed security forces using extreme and deadly force at around 3am on Monday morning 19 December. Lights between the square and the museum were suddenly turned off just as Tantawi's thugs arrived presumably to prevent anyone recording their brutality. They caught and beat protesters and several attacked a white car smashing the glass and pannels with long sticks. The alarm of the car then wailed out, joining a symphony of large bangs and the ocassional whistle of live bullets. All photos here copyright the photographer Alisdare Hickson.               At times as in the photos below protesters fought back with stones and very ocassionally petrol bombs. None of us at GayEgypt.com agree with any type of violent action in any circumstnce - we don't think such tactics are either ethical or helpful to the revolutionary cause - but the Egyptian government must realise that when it employs such violent methods to quell peaceful protests it only serves to provoke violence from the people. However while all our sympathies lie entirely with the protesters and while we are absolutely disgusted with the actions of the military, we appeal also to protesters NEVER to use any kind of violence - it's equally disgusting whoever does it.        GAY NATIONAL DAY - SORRY - A CHANGE OF MIND This article first posted on 3 December 2011 and updated subsequently. We think it would be too risky to ask large numbers of people to join the gay pride march on 1st January but this does not mean we do not support those who decided to mobolize so soon. The photos in the press and social media as well as our own showing protesters taking cover from a rain of stones and one being beaten by a plain clothes member of the security forces are clear evidence of how dangerous the situation still is around Tahrir Square. With the increase of sectarian violence and security forces remaining largely unaccountable, we hope people will carefully consider the dangers before joining those who have planned a "gay national day". 
We would not wish to deter those brave enough to have already committed themselves and who are well aware of the dangers, but neither would we wish to encourage others who may be less aware of the risks to join them. Also from monitoring the relevant facebook page there seems to have been little recent activity and no clear indication that many or any will actually attend.Photo left by Alisdare Hickson: Army officer on Mahmoud Street. His identity disguised by a balaclava. How can the army remain accountable if officers are afraid to show their faces ? Both photographs copyright A Hickson 2011. - You can view GayEgypt.com's uprising photos here Visit our gay pride march for Egypt in 2012 page or our somewhat pessimisticly entitled gay pride march for Egypt in 2020 page. You may have to login to Facebook first. They had been originally posted jointly to see which would attract more likes. The first was this month leading slightly despite the fact that our own editorials had advised cuation. Then the growth of online support elsewhere for a 1st January date changed the situation dramatically. LATEST VIRAL VIDEO OF POLICE BRUTALITY This video just uploaded by Al-Masry Al Youm to Youtube shows security forces beating people for no reason whatsoever except perhaps out of some desperate attempt to win respect through fear - but episodes such as these will rapidly loose SCAF any lingering respect the Egyptian public still hold for it. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oa2Cm9dqUqY We appeal to all gays and lesbians to join the second revolution to oust Tantawi and all those with blood on their hands. However we do urge that protesters should never copy the violence of the army and security forces. History proves that peaceful protest is the most powerful weapon. Editorial 11 April 2011: Even way back then we took a very critical stand against SCAF - Egypt's Military Council - see our editorial here. LETTER TO MAIKEL NABIL - if it ever can reach you Dear Maikel, Under a regime which imprisons anyone for speaking freely, the most appropriate home for any honourable man with a free spirit is also a prison. The fact that you are in prison shows that those who are in power are afraid of what you write and the example that you set and hope to intimidate you and others into a subservient silence. You are in prison because you let your conscience speak, but there are those who still hold the reigns of power because they are men of no conscience who have already benefited from years of corruption and nepotism. Prisons should be for those who stole from the country and used torture against its' citizens, not for people who speak out against such crimes. Nothing is more undemocratic that imprisoning a person because he reminds us all of uncomfortable truths. I find it painful to contemplate your circumstances in a prison cell and I pray that you will be released soon. As long as you are there, none of us are truly free. Yours truly GayEgypt.com team. 
mPhoto left - protesters position police van to protect themselves from police fire. Copyright GayEgypt.com Photo right - man in wheel chair is first protester to enter Tahrir Square on Friday 28. Copyright GayEgypt.com What we were saying back in January. "Egypt's gay and lesbian community has had enough of years of police brutality and torture and GayEgypt.com calls on all lesbians and gays to join their brothers and sisters on the street to demand immediate change." Nearly a year later, our message is still the same. We don't trust the military council. Everyone please take care, try to miniize your risks. Don't travel to Tahrir Square alone but do try to go in a group. Try to find a friend who lives near the square so you have somewhere to take refuge in an emergency. Otherwise if it is late at night and you are alone try to find a mosque or a church where you can shelter. But don't give up - what happens here will have a lasting impact on the entire Arab world ..... WARNINGS, CONDITIONS, COPYRIGHT AND CONTACT INFO Police beatings, rape and torture of gay men is commonplace across Africa and Asia. Homophobic violence is a crime. Please send us names to freedom4egypt@hotmail.com. Your anonymity is assured. Also we depend on your help for information on gay news and meeting places in Egypt and other African and Asian countries. We encourage anyone to e-mail us at freedom4egypt@hotmail.com.com (c) All information and text on this site is the sole copyright of GayEgypt.com. The copyright of photographs may belong to others - you must ask gayegypt.com to know who owns the copyright on any picture - e-mail arabs@hotmail.co.uk The inclusion of any photographs on this site is not meant to imply anything about the subject's sexual orientation. Disclaimer: All information contained on this site has been provided in good faith but you are always advised to check first. We are not liable for the accuracy of the information given. Please read our full legal disclaimer before opening any page. Warning: Gay sex or any homosexual activity in many Middle Eastern, Asian and African countries puts you at risk of arrest, deportation or imprisonment and any sexual encounter anywhere worldwide is undertaken at your own risk. ArabSpring.net We recommend anyone visiting Marsa Alam on Egypt's Red Sea coast to check out the following website for holiday information. Click here. BREAKING NEWS: Thousands of Egyptians pledge to participate in peaceful protests against the Government in Cairo on 25 January -via Facebook with up to four or more postings every minute.  ArabSpring.net |
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