NEWS.- Only in the world of magic does the invisible word have as much presence as in the LGTBI field. Visibility is requested, invisibility is denounced, even in some associations we find visibility commissions, that is, who faces the media when we are news for some reason.
To dream of being invisible, with being unseen, is a recurring childhood fantasy, which we experience again in adulthood when we suspect an infidelity or simply when, after a separation, we would pay for what is not written to be able to contemplate our ex-partner sleeping or for the last time. Apart from these situations being invisible is not a bargain because it supposes not to exist.
To this stage of nonexistence was he who Mahmud Ahmadineya, at that time president of Iran, condemned thousands and thousands of men and women of his country. It was in the course of a speech given at Columbia University in the United States 8 years ago where, when asked about the issue of sexual diversity, he replied: "In Iran we do not have homosexuals like in your country. There is no such phenomenon in Iran. "
That was how the strange epidemic started, which no one has yet been able to explain clearly. Each time two men kissed each other they disappeared, each time two women stroked their naked bodies, they vanished into subtle scents floating in the consciousness of the blind. Because there is no worse blind than he who does not want to see and deny the existence of the desire of others, the existence of others, does not make it disappear, only to hide.
That situation is what he has managed to capture, with a delicacy that transforms the tragedy into lyric, the artist of Iranian origin Laurence Rasti. In a series of photographs published by the magazine P, the photographer transforms censorship into balloons, denial into flowers, in short, invisibility into poetry.
Last week we learned that Christelle Nangnou, a lesbian woman from Cameroon, got political asylum in Spain after spending 24 days held at the Barajas airport in Madrid. At first the Spanish authorities denied the asylum but the defense of Nangnou resorted to the Court of Human Rights of Strasbourg that stopped the extradition. The action of a group of deputies of the Cortes finally managed to save Christelle from the hell that supposed to return to his country. They made it visible and dignified.
Some will say that it is only a case, a needle in a haystack, a gesture to go out in the newspapers. In the Talmud we read that "Who saves a life, saves the whole world". Let us therefore continue making visible the invisible and welcoming those who flee from hell.
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