Guest EXPAT Posted March 22, 2012 Posted March 22, 2012 The grandson of actor Omar Sharif came out in and article published in the Advocate Sunday that he is gay and worried about his safety and family… Omar Sharif Jr. wrote in The Advocate, “I write this article in fear. Fear for my country, fear for my family, and fear for myself. My parents will be shocked to read it, surely preferring I stay in the shadows and keep silent, at least for the time being. But I can’t.” Sharif expressed his disappointment at the recent parliamentary elections, writing that the revolution gave him hope for a “more tolerant and equal society,” but now he is not as hopeful. “The vision for a freer, more equal Egypt – a vision that many young patriots gave their lives to see realized in Tahrir Square – has been hijacked. The full spectrum of equal and human rights are now wedge issues used by both the Supreme Council of the Egyptian Armed Forces and the Islamist parties, when they should be regarded as universal truths,” Sharif wrote. “I write … for fear that Egypt’s Arab Spring may be moving us backward, not forward,” he wrote. He's cute: Quote
