To boycott Turkey and Egypt after homophobic action against cruise ship?

So they wanted to rock up to the Sphinx in their dog masks and posing pouches?

Your attitude is very colonial.

What is Turkey going to do next - ask each individual person if they are gay and then deny them entry individually?

I don't think so. Why, have you heard it will?

If you go as an individual tourist and don't do anything in public that would offend them then presumably you'll be fine. A chartered cruise ship dedicated to LGBTQ etc is going to get a different response. Again, I totally agree it's homophobic and horrible and if I were in charge it wouldn't happen. I just don't understand how you can be surprised by it. Didn't you know what those countries are like about this?

So you won’t boycott countries for having homophobic attitudes unless they make public announcements about them?

Oh if only the ‘when in Rome’ rule applied here instead of us all bending over backwards to fake a blind eye to the unevolved toxicity that’s walking our streets nowadays.

It should not take a news headline to get you to avoid travel to countries that persecute people for not being heterosexual. Human rights checks should always be part of your travel research.

Every person has to draw their own lines, but their country their rules does not apply to basic human rights.

Isn’t this cruise a particular charter by Atlantis for predominantly gay men to enjoy. Which is often accompanied by a higher than usual level of drugs and overdoses (per reports elsewhere). Definitely clothing optional!

a normsl virgin cruise is very gay friendly anyway, they have not been turned away. This is just a fully chartered cruise. Slightly different

not that I am saying it’s right but this is a very Specific type of cruise. A lot of leather jock straps per the posts on Instagram.

I avoid Turkey because they have even more sleazy men than the UK.

Lady, you are based 👌🏻

If I boycotted every country which had different values & mores to me, I'd never go anywhere.
That includes my UK home.

Exactly, it's Virgin Voyages which surprises me for such a ridiculous decision. It's an established company which should know better.

Why the hell would a cruise line organize an LGBTQ+ cruise to Turkey and Egypt??? Isn't it obvious that those countries don't agree with the LGBTQ+ lifestyle or movement?

What next? Organize a cruise to Burkina Faso a country that recently criminalized same sex relation or a Christian Pentecostal crusie to Saudi Arabia???
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c2060er4062o

Re boycotting the, I don't think they care but you're free to boycott if you need to. I don't have any interest in visiting Egypt and that's not because of this action so nothing changes for me.

Where do you get that from?
Most of the UK don’t give a fuck about Gaza and even less so since their attack on Israel and subsequent squealing of ‘genocide’ when it’s no such thing.

Do you think you can shame them into some Inclusivity Pretence?

It is their country their rules. But it doesn’t mean we should just shrug our shoulders and not judge. Am not gay myself.
There are some countries I simply would never contemplate going to.
We should look at countries and how they behave. Mad not to.
I think too many people get shocked if they fall foul on holiday of some rule or another and forget they are abroad in a non European country. It isn’t going to be the same….

Their country, their laws, their culture, their beliefs, their religion.

Those who wish to visit, or live in, conservative Muslim countries should agree to respect them and to behave accordingly. If homosexuality is deemed by them to be incompatible with their laws, society & culture, so be it.

Exactly the same should also apply in reverse, of course. Conservative Muslims, or any other groups who object to homosexuality on religious or moral grounds should respect the laws & cultures of secular liberal European countries. If their beliefs are incompatible with those laws & cultures, they should go elsewhere.

Neither of the above statements should be controversial.

They do but they also need to sort their human rights issues and that’s not going to happen in our lifetime.

You can’t really complain that a country who hates gay people has stopped them entering. They are intitled to their beliefs

I don’t understand why this has come as a surprise to you.

Will you also be boycotting the dozens of other countries where it’s not safe to be LGB? And how far will your boycott go? Will you be boycotting products from those countries? Or banks that invest your savings and pensions in those countries?

It’s because of a belief in a people’s right to self-determination.

Interesting the OP thinks this is a reason to boycott Egypt and not their incredibly high rate of FGM.

To be honest it sounds as though the charter organisers were either very naive and uninformed about the itinerary, or (more likely) they were approaching the trip from a campaigning perspective, believing if they arrived en masse the country would not refuse them entry.

Either way, those countries are clear about their position on homosexuality. Nobody should have been surprised.

Yup me too 😂

I would just like to know what the cruise ship company and the people who booked it were thinking tbh! It's not like the views on homosexuality in these countries isn't well know. They could've been put in a very dangerous situation so maybe it was right that they were turned away.