Egypt

Demographics

Estimated Total Population:

98.4 million

World Bank, 2018

Estimated SGM Population:

N/A

N/A

Estimated Total SGM Adult Population:

N/A

N/A

Estimated % of SGM Adults (18+):

N/A

N/A

Though same-sex acts are not outright criminalized, other laws against prostitution, debauchery and “online content that threatens society’s and family’s values” have been used to imprison gay men; such has occurred 92 times in the past year (RightsAfrica, 2020). This, compounded by the fact that only 3% of the population says that homosexuality should be accepted by society (Pew Research Center, 2013) renders the climate extraordinarily hostile to SGM populations and SGM research.

Egypt's Laws and Policies from ILGA World Report (2019)

RECOGNITION
Marriage for Same-Sex Couples
No
Civil Unions
No
Joint Adoption
No
Second Parent Adoption
No
PROTECTION
Employment Nondiscrimination Laws
No
Broad Protections
No
Criminalization of Violence
No
Ban of Conversion Therapy
No
CRIMINALIZATION
Consensual Same-Sex Acts are Legal?
DEFACTO
Gender
Any Gender
Max Penalty (Yrs in Prison)
3

Selected Published Studies, Reports, and Other Documents

Ebied, E. M. E. (2014). Factors contributing to HIV/AIDS-related stigma and discrimination attitude in Egypt: Suggested stigma reduction guide for nurses in family health centers. J Educ and Pract, 5, 35-46. From http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.989.7616&rep=rep1&type=pdf

Hani M. Henry (2020) Internalized sexual stigma as an internal minority stress: The Egyptian gay experience, Journal of Gay & Lesbian Mental Health, 24:2, 174-189, DOI: 10.1080/19359705.2019.1706681

Mohamed, M. S. (2015). Sexuality, Development and Non-conforming Desire in the Arab World: The Case of Lebanon and Egypt (No. IDS Evidence Report; 158). IDS. From https://opendocs.ids.ac.uk/opendocs/bitstream/handle/20.500.12413/7115/?sequence=1

Zakarriya, J. (2019) Vulnerability, resistance and sexuality in revolutionary Egypt, Women's Studies International Forum, 77, 102291, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wsif.2019.102291

Zettlemoyer, J. N. (2017). Trends in LGBT Activism: Defending the Rights of Egypt's Queer Citizens. From https://repository.arizona.edu/bitstream/handle/10150/625258/azu_etd_hr_2017_0240_sip1_m.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y