[Foundation-l] [Wikimania-l] Wikimania 2008 will happen in Alexandria, Egypt

[David Strauss]

George Herbert wrote:
> If you believe Egypt truly is significantly bad for visiting LGBT
> tourists, there should be ample evidence thereof available.  In spite
> of my friends' and aquaintences personal ancedotal safe trips, I went
> looking for some evidence of risk when this thread started.  I have
> not found anything of the sort.  There's more documented foreign
> tourist gay bashing in San Francisco (fairly low actual rate, and
> abhored by the local population as a whole, but there's a persistent
> low-rate problem from homophobic fringeists) than I can find for
> Egypt.

If you use official records, there's zero gay bashing in Iran. I
wouldn't consider Egypt's records on GLBT issues accurate, either.

That's the quandary with record-keeping. The places with the most
problems often have the worst records. Never mistake bad record keeping
with the absence of a problem.

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