Egypt’s crackdown on transgender and gay people started almost exactly four years ago, just a few months after General Abdel Fattah el-Sisi seized power.
Actor Anthony Rapp accused Oscar-winner Kevin Spacey of forcing himself on him when he was 14. Spacey responded by coming out of the closet. The timing couldn’t have been worse.
Mona Eltahawy (@monaeltahawy) is the author of “Headscarves and Hymens: Why the Middle East Needs a Sexual Revolution” and a contributing opinion writer.
“It could be voted on within a week or months,” said @Egaypt. “But either way its terrifying as it sets a new trend that could (and will) spread to other countries in the region that are socially homophobic, but have no anti-LGBTQ laws.”
