Egypt

Egyptian LGBTQ+ activist Sara Hegazy dies by suicide
Global struggles for LGBTQ+ rights: Latest news from the front lines
Amid crackdown, Egypt denies the existence of LGBT people
92 LGBTIQ+ arrests, but Egypt’s courts often acquit
How anti-gay Muslims get their Islamic texts wrong
As many as 20,000 people gather in Singapore for the Pink Dot festival, which seeks recognition of the human rights of LGBTI people. (Photo courtesy of Yahoo)
Anti-gay laws in 2019: You win some, you lose some
Worldwide struggle for LGBTIQ rights: More news from the front lines
Rainbow flag displayed at the Sept. 22 Mashrou’ Leila concert in Cairo. (Photo courtesy of youm7.com)
Lebanon is no longer safe for LGBT activists
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Slow progress for gay rights in North Africa
Some nations in this Arab summit would executive me for being gay, Xavier Bettel said. (Diarmuid Greene photo courtesy of Wikimedia Commons/Summit/Sportsfile)
Loud and proud at Arab summit
ILGA's 2019 map of sexual orientation laws shows which nations have (1) legal protection against discrimination based on sexual orientation, (2) laws against consensual same-sex sexual acts between adults, (3) legal recognition of families with same-sex parents, and (4) legal barriers to the exercise of rights.
Pro- and anti-gay laws: 9 nations protect LGBT people; 11 threaten death
TV talk show host Mohammed al-Ghaity was sentenced to one year in prison for interviewing a gay man. (Photo courtesy of The Independent)
1 year in Egyptian prison. The crime? Interviewing a gay man
Map of the 73 countries with laws against sexual relations between people of the same sex.
Updates: Kenya, Singapore, Egypt, Cameroon and more
Egyptian celebrity Khaled Abol Naga (Photo courtesy of The Independent)
Egyptian actor pushes for LGBT rights
Scene from a photo shoot for Lebanese trans model Sasha Elijah (Heba Kanso photo courtesy of Thomson Reuters Foundation)
Lebanon: Trans model breaks taboos
‘No Longer Alone’: LGBT voices in Middle East, N. Africa