Current Events > Lesbian kills herself after facing hardships due to being bold

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https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/15/world/middleeast/egypt-gay-suicide-sarah-hegazi.html

When the openly gay frontman of a hugely popular Lebanese pop group strutted onto the stage of a Cairo summer festival in 2017, rainbow flags lifted in the air, and something sparked inside Sarah Hegazi.

As a lesbian in a country where homosexuality is taboo, and gay people are routinely persecuted by the authorities, here was a glimmer of freedom. Beaming with joy, she raised both hands in the air and hoisted her own rainbow flag aloft. A friend captured the moment on camera.

It was the start of her undoing.

A storm of public outrage over the rainbow flags erupted on social media and was whipped up by Egypts thunderous TV talk-show hosts. Police raids followed. Dozens of people were arrested, including Ms. Hegazi the start of a desperate trajectory, marked with violence, despair and exile, that culminated in tragedy on Saturday when the 30-year-old Egyptian took her life in Canada.

In a short, poignant handwritten note, she begged forgiveness for her action from her three siblings, and her friends. The experience has been harsh and Im too weak to resist, she wrote.

She saved her final words for her persecutors.

To the world, she wrote. Youve been greatly cruel, but I forgive.

In recent days Ms. Hegazis final words have reverberated across Egypt amid an outpouring of grief. On social media, many replaced their profiles with rainbow flags, shattered by the loss of another young Egyptian.

At the other end of the spectrum, others denounced her actions and said she deserved her death.

RIP

well thats fucking horrific.

its pure insanity that people living the life they want to live can get them killed or persecuted by society to a point of suicide.

this is why we need no religion

Odoylerules posted...

its pure insanity that people living the life they want to live can get them killed or persecuted by society to a point of suicide.

It's a reminder to reject Sharia Law, Sharia Law is uncivilized thus does not tow party lines.
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RIP

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