Mubarak went After Gays in Egypt Now Is The Muslim Brotherhood {but} Gays Are Still Fighting

It is auch a pitty about Egypt. Last year you had ‘ The Arab Spring” and the gay community helping bring down this sadly excuse of a leader Hosni Mubarak. He had this non specific legislation that he would used not only to arrest and jail but to hang. Many times this blog posted men being hung there. There were emails and tweets sent from there indicating a lot of hope that now since the “witch” was gone they could at least have the freedom just to be people.

In those messages sent from there you always saw a warning about the Muslim Brotherhood. The had remained quiet with Mubarak but now they had become very vocal and very anti gay. The warning also indicated that if the brotherhood won any part of the elections there would be problems.

Well not only did they win the majority and the chance to install their man to replace Mubarak, now they started using the same laws Mubark used to persecute them.

Laws such as “Debauchery, Contempt of religion and Sanatism.” Enforcing these laws the new religious government piecked up where Mubarak left off. They have a campaign of “Gays’ are not people”

"Gays are not people” it’s funny that we have 'that' in this land of freedom and democracy too. You still have people in the government here that beleive ‘that' and religious leaders that emphasize that gays don’t need  civil rights, they got all the rights we need, except…..about hundreds if you take all the 50 states together and how they keep us from so many rights that everyone who is straight has. It’s easy to shoot a person in the face when is not a real person. I guess the blood that comes out  of someone who is been beaten here or shot is “not” real blood.  That attitude that we have here by people in governemnt is what brings the violence like they do in Egypt.

You still have a few thousands gays that cruise downtown Cairo, but they take thier lives in their hands. They can be stop by just wearing gay clothes what ever that is.

You have a young man name Tarek, 28 (Not his real name). He  recounts being beaten and robbed for "dressing like a faggot"—and avoiding the police for fear that they, too, would target him for being gay.

Though homosexuality is not illegal in Egypt, coming out has always been complicated and even dangerous.

But now, even as Egypt becomes increasingly Islamized under Muslim Brotherhood rule, young gay activists are fighting back by building a rights movement and initiating a more public conversation about a subject long kept under wraps.

Tarek said they are spearheading an awareness campaign. There is also Yosef who recently started an anti-homophobia campaign on Twitter, which quickly went viral—within hours it had drawn thousands of re-tweets and mentions, quickly gaining support from mainstream activists and celebrities, with some people uploading photos of their partners—an unusual public display in what is still a conservative country. "It was overwhelming," Yosef says. "It's the right time to bring a community together.”

The graffitti on top is part of their awareness campaign.  We have so much to learn from these young people that know who they are and unlike others living in freedom and hiding it, these young people try not to hide it.

{Adam Gonzalez, Publisher}