What is it with washed up 1980’s musicians and their obsession with being able to go into a woman’s bathroom? First it was washed up geaser Bruce Springsteen, in North Carolina, now its Bryan Adams in Mississippi. If you haven’t heard the name Bryan Adams since the mid 1980’s, you aren’t alone. For whatever reason, Adams was set to perform this week at Mississippi Coast Coliseum in Biloxi. But Adams cancelled, calling Mississippi’s measure “extremely discriminatory.” Oh BTW, Adams is a Canadian. Maybe they are into that sort of thing up there. Especially after electing Justin Trudeau as Prime Minister.
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This guy toured Egypt just last month and his biggest complaint at the time was that customs officials scribbled on one of his vintage guitars. Being gay isn’t technically illegal there but it is, after all, a Muslim country so gays are arrested on euphemistic charges like “debauchery.” Punishment can be harsh too: The CNN story at the last link mentions one sentence of 12 years. Egyptian police are known to pose as gay men and women on gay dating apps like Grindr to try to entrap locals; humiliations like anal probes also aren’t unheard of during arrests. The dark irony, per this Independent story on persecution of gays in Egypt, is that “secular” regimes like Mubarak’s and Sissi’s have cracked down harder than the Muslim Brotherhood did during the brief period a few years ago when they ruled the country. The reason is politics: Because the secularists are forever under suspicion of being “un-Islamic” compared to the Islamists, they try to prove their piety to Egyptians by making an example of gays. You would think all of this would weigh heavily on a right-thinking pro-gay bro like Bryan Adams, but like I say, either he didn’t care or didn’t care to know. How come? It’s strange, unless his Mississippi boycott is nothing more than moral peacocking.