Medical officials in Egypt claim that nine men have “tested negative for homosexuality” after their involvement in a video purporting to show “Egypt’s First Gay Wedding” earlier this summer.
The video in question was uploaded to YouTube months ago and sat virtually unnoticed until the power of social media launched it to “viral” status about two weeks ago. In it, two men in suits can be seen exchanging rings and smiling at an apparent wedding party — there’s no indication that it was a gay wedding other than its title, “Egypt’s First Gay Wedding”.
The video has since been revealed as a joke between friends, and nothing more than two straight dudes exchanging rings at an otherwise uneventful party. But that didn’t stop Egyptian officials from arresting all nine men who appeared in the video on charges of “sodomy.”
Though being gay is not explicitly illegal in Egypt, “debauchery” is, and the government’s strong Islamic influence has made being a “habitual homosexual” a punishable condition. According to reports, police crackdowns on those who “violate the teachings of religion and public morals” have become commonplace.
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Specific details of whatever “test” was performed on the nine men to deduce that they were heterosexual have not been made public, aside from confirmation that it was “anal” in nature.
The Washington Post has the scoop, though:
Egypt has conducted homosexuality tests for years, and they have been frequently criticized. In 2004, Health and Human Rights journal published a report that said the procedures, based on anal examinations, were a form of “a form of torture” and based on “a 19th century medical mythology.”
The original video has since been deleted from YouTube, but there are countless copies available through other channels. Check it out below:
ric
I want to take this test. Oh please can I? What a joke. Let us live our own lives. Who are we hurting? I am getting sick of putting up with homophobic assholes.
barkomatic
So, gay Egyptian doctors has anal sex with these guys and then asked them if they liked it? If they said, “no” they tested negative? lol
DickieJohnson
And I thought Egypt was supposed to be one of the more “enlightened” of the Islamic countries.
Alan down in Florida
Can’t think of when I last saw “enlightened” and “Islamic countries” in the same sentence.
Kieran
I’m sure the Egyptian “doctors” who perform the anal checks are 100% straight and really hate having to do this kind of thing. LOL!
lykeitiz
@Alan down in Florida: Or will again.
AzLights
WTF? “Tested negative for homosexuality”?! Just leave us alone. Our lives harm no one. These azzhats are as bad as the jerks in the US calling for our deaths.
Billy Budd
There are no limits to human stupidity, especially of the religious type.
money718
Wow
michael mellor
Actually, the current government in Egypt is not Islamic.
Ridpathos
Any religion besides Buddhism should not have the word enlightenment attached to it. Befuddlement would be the correct term.
Leonard Woodrow
Any country which supports such laws can never be considered civilised. We need to send missionaries to educate them.
pressuredrop
@Leonard Woodrow:
Well, this topic seems to have jumped from cultural criticism to Imperialism rather quickly.
Mr. E. Jones
I noticed that only good looking men had to take the test.
DickieJohnson
@Alan down in Florida: That’s why I used “enlightened”, as in “so-called”.
@michael mellor: The govt. may not be using Sharia Law, but a country where virtually everyone is Muslim, would make it Islamic.
Kangol
@DickieJohnson:
What made you think that? Under Hosni Mubarak, whom the US helped to depose, the Egyptian goverment scapegoated and regularly arrested LGBTs.
Under the Muslim Brotherhood president Mohamed Morsi, who took over when Egypt’s brief democracy began and who was deposed in July 2013, the government hunted and scapegoated LGBTs.
Under the current “president” (dictator?) General Sisi, the government continues to scapegoat and arrest LGBTs.
Where did you get “enlightened” from?
Morocco, which is a predominantly Muslim country but not an Islamic government does not scapegoat gays. Traditionally neither has Indonesia, the most populous Muslim country on earth, which has become increasingly more Islamicist in the last 30 years.
Black Swan
Once again I am upset with the reporting here on this site. I would seriously like to know what this anal test consists of. The writing here is way too ambiguous again for all of us (presumably) out of the closet, mature, intelligent, adult homosexuals. I think I can handle the truth.
Are we honestly supposed to just use our imaginations, and preclude that the doctors took nine straight men, stripped them naked, each doctor one by one, and each of the nine men alone one at a time, and then actually fucked all nine of these men either with instruments, or shall we say manually, and then performed tests from there? What kind of tradition hasn’t evolved past that yet?
Are the doctors very trained? How much training do the doctors go through? So then the doctors are clearly exempt from having to take “the test” themselves for reasons of ethical purity? What is going on? Can I get a copy of the test? Please? Is is something you can study for?