Seven years after the Queen Boat arrests, filmmaker Maher Sabry made the compassionate drama All My Life (Toul Omry), telling the story of a gay accountant, Rami, trying to navigate Cairo’s underground gay community. All My Life was the first Egyptian film to relate political corruption, cyber surveillance, and police brutality to the crackdown on LGBT people and specifically the Queen Boat raid.

Taken from a song by Mohamad Abdel-Wahab, the film’s title refers to how Rami is abandoned by his lover and tries to fall in love again, all while hiding his sexuality so as not to get in trouble with the Egyptian authorities. His character is not necessarily progressive, as at times he blames the Queen Boat defendants for being open about their sexual orientation. Despite the poor quality of the production, the film shines a light on several crucial aspects, such as how police released the foreigners arrested on the Queen Boat, how the defendants were raped and otherwise mistreated in police custody, and how the media coverage of the raid was part of the state-sponsored propaganda machine.