A cruise ship with 3,000 gay people was denied the chance to dock in Egypt and Turkey.
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The Gerry Callahan ShowAug 17, 2026
The core event is well supported: Turkey refused the Scarlet Lady LGBTQ cruise and Egypt then denied its replacement Alexandria stop. However, sources put the passenger count at roughly 1,900 to 2,000-plus, not 3,000, so the headcount element is contradicted.
A detail. The sources confirm the gist; the verdict faults a detail such as a date, number or wording.
Our two reads of who says this, and how, disagree, so it counts as the post's own claim.
What was said
… These are liberal values. People fought and died to establish them, and it's not racist to say, if you want to come here to help form a more perfect union, great, but some things are too fundamental to change. And he talked about the gay, the gay cruise. There was a cruise with like 3,000 gay people on it that was denied, uh, uh, the chance to dock in Egypt and Turkey, that they wouldn't allow, and he, he, he said, is that, is that okay with the people voting for, you know, Muslim extremists like El-Sayed, um? And he, and he pointed out that we don't do that here. That's not an American value. …
The Gerry Callahan Show · · from the transcriptPost →What we found
Contradicts. Sources give the ship's passenger count as nearly 2,000 (Washington Post), roughly 1,900 (Metro Weekly), or two thousand-plus (Irish Examiner), which contradicts the claimed figure of 3,000.[1][2][3]
Supports. Multiple reliable outlets report that Turkey refused to let the Atlantis Events gay-themed cruise dock and that Egypt then denied entry to its replacement port of Alexandria.[1][3][4][5]
Context. Reporting describes the passengers as LGBTQ+ travelers, mostly gay men and primarily Americans, so 'gay people' is a loose but broadly fair description. Turkish officials cited 'moral values' and 'behaviors that do not align with the structure of our society.'[4][6][7]
Context. The claimant's passage itself says 'like 3,000', and the extraction faithfully reproduces that figure, so the number is the post's own error rather than an extraction addition.
Sources
7 sources: 2 tier 2, 5 not rated
- 1Egypt blocks a gay cruise that was rejected from Turkey ...washingtonpost.com · tier 2 · cited for: contradicts, supports
- 2Jonathan deBurca Butler: Why was a gay cruise ship turned away ...irishexaminer.com · not rated · cited for: contradicts
- 3Gay Cruise Ship Barred from Turkey Also Denied Entry by Egyptmetroweekly.com · not rated · cited for: contradicts, supports
- 4Gay-Themed Mediterranean Cruise Turned Away From Turkey and ...nytimes.com · tier 2 · cited for: supports, context
- 5LGBTQ cruise denied entry to Egypt after being barred from Turkeythenewstribune.com · not rated · cited for: supports
- 6Egypt turns away cruise ship with mostly gay men after Turkey ...yahoo.com · not rated · cited for: context
- 7Turkey blocks LGBTQ+ cruise ship from docking at its portthe-independent.com · not rated · cited for: context
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