The Video: Egypt: LGBT Egyptians in the heart of the revolt

They are several bloggers and users of Twitter, active on the web long 

before the events, even as opponents of the regime of Hosni Mubarak. 

They are gay, not always openly in their daily lives, but none of them 

offers his sexual orientation or gender identity in the claims he wears

 at the beginning of the year, in the heart of the revolt against the

 Egyptian government.

And Bahaa Saber (pictured cons). Openly gay, he was arrested, 

tortured and raped by police last year (the Egyptian security forces

 are frequently the subject of accusations of sexual abuse of suspects).

 "After a while, you stop paying attention to the charges 

against you," he bravely let go at the Los Angeles Times.

The English site LGBT Asylum News, which cites many other 

gay activists, mentions a blogger known as the Sandmonkey,

 arrested, tortured by Egyptian police and released after

 several hours.

The story of "IceQueer"

The site GayMiddleEast interviewed extensively "IceQueer, a gay blogger in

 Cairo, Internal Medicine says that 22 years of revolts within these last few

 days. He tells his chance of not having suffered violence, and welcomes

 instead of seeing "how the protests are peaceful and joyful." "I note with 

joy how Egypt is both diverse and unified! I held a sign that read "secularism" 

and my friends (straight, gay, girls, Christians and Muslims) also held signs

 and screaming that we had the manifestation of the people and was not 

manipulated by a party or a religion . Everything was really nice and looked

 like a European carnival, "he recounted, said that although his friends were

 slightly injured. Through an Internet connection it provides to its Twitter

 account regularly and enthusiastically to see the tremendous impact of 

new technologies that challenge.

Are there any claims in the homosexual movement? "We can not ask

 everything at once, he says. Already seek "freedom" and "the fall of the

 regime" has shaken the entire country, so imagine what would happen if

 we asked for LGBT rights? Egyptian LGBT community will not have rights

 before Egypt became a secular country. "

A known cruising spot

The site also asks the blogger's reputation Tahrir Square, the epicenter 

of the movement, as a meeting place before the gay movement. "Yes, it's

 funny when I meet you to my friends on Tahrir Square to protest, I say"

 If I had proposed a week ago an appointment on Tahrir Square and a

 walk up Bridge Kasr El-Nil, you would have seen me as a warm rabbit! "

In 2005, a report by Human Rights Watch pointed cases of arrests and 

torture by the Egyptian government against men accused of homosexuality.

 It also remembers the case of the "Queen Boat" in 2001, during which 

52 men were arrested aboard the ship used as a gay nightclub moored 

on the Nile. No law in Egypt does not specifically condemns homosexual 

acts, but LGBT people can be charged with "immoral or indecent behavior,

" "spreading ideas perverse" or "moral depravity".

Pascal Parvis
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