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May 17, 2020 – 10:00 p.m. –
Society
In a letter, Moroccan writer Abdellah Taïa addresses the LGBTQ community in general and gay youth in particular in Morocco. He spoke of the difficulties faced by this community during this period of confinement in the kingdom, encouraged and called to hope.
–“[…] We have been told over the past few months that human beings must change. They will no longer be cruel, they will no longer be selfish, they will no longer be hypercapitalists, frantic and frightening consumers. I don’t know if I should believe all these beautiful speeches. Beautiful lies are everywhere, “writes the writer.
“On the other hand, I see the cruelty assumed renew itself, mutate, in Morocco as soon as it is about LGBTQ, your community, our community both virtual and very real. In recent weeks, says Abdellah Taïa, your country has invented a new way to jostle you, to get on your knees, to make you tremble. To exclude yourself. To designate you as the enemy to kill. “
The author of the book “La Vie Slow” talks about the smear campaign against the LGBTQ community in Morocco orchestrated by the influencer Sofia Taloni, a young Moroccan woman living in Turkey. “She says that she wanted to bring out the homosexual truth in Morocco. She did not understand that if you, you hide, if the others hide, it is that they have no choice. Nobody It protects them. Neither family, friends, society, and certainly not power, “he said.
“Loneliness and frailty. This is your situation. And you don’t know what to do if it is not to become, in spite of yourself, an actor, a very great actor. […] Undergo the dictatorship of heterosexuals. But you have to stay alive. You are alive. And I’m here too. Abdellah, your brother. Moroccan like you. In the same fear as you. I am with you. I take your hand. And I sing in your ears all my love. […] Hold on. Hold on. You are right. You’re going to win this battle, “he encourages.
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