Street murals and graffiti art commemorating Sarah in the Jordanian capial Amman were speedily painted over after a social media uproar. An Amman municipality spokesperson decried the act in a tweet saying that :"...the Amman Municipality worked until the latenight hours on obliterating drawings by some aberrants (شواذ - Arabic pejorative for homosexuals) in some areas of Amman. I am surprised that this category (homosexuals) exists even though it is foreign to our customs and traditions..."[31] Following a wave of anti-LGBT sentiment in Sarah's homeland, Noor Salim, a transgender Egyptian man and the son of renowned actor Hesham Selim, blasted what he called societal hypocrisy and defended Hegazi's memory.[32]