EDITORIAL.- It is not always easy to give good news and it is good to congratulate ourselves for what has been achieved, but ignoring the abuse, cruelty and pain of tant @ s makes us accomplices, makes us responsible. Because who is silent gives and it would be shameful to walk the newly released freedom like animals in a guarded reserve, while the rest is persecuted, hunted, caged and killed in the jungle.
The tone can seem melodramatic and for that reason I will refer to the facts, to the most recent information. This week Morocco has celebrated its peculiar "Gay Pride". The October 20 are held clandestinely and with the utmost secrecy acts and meetings to commemorate the suicide already 7 years ago by Leila Amrouche, the young woman who preferred to take her own life to submit to the forced marriage with which her family tried to cure her homosexuality. But Leila's case is not an isolated case, the acts of homosexuality are punished in the alauí kingdom with penalties that oscillate between the 3 months and the 3 years. Samir Bargachi, activist of Kifkif, a Moroccan association that fights for the rights of homosexuals and that has its legal base in Spain, assures that "30% of homosexuals in the Alawite kingdom have ever thought about committing suicide, we have tried legal recognition in Morocco, but it is impossible ".
As a sign of this tragedy, the case of Hamza, a 22-year-old boy who, after suffering beatings and insults from his family and fellow students, was seen at 14 with his suitcases on the street without being able to go to anyone. “I had nowhere to go, so I let my father and brother mistreat me. It became part of the daily routine, until one day it became unbearable. I got home and they were waiting for me with a cane in hand to beat me up. My brother threw me to the ground and kicked me in the head until I broke my teeth. The worst thing about this story is to think that Hamza could not go to the police for fear of being arrested. "To be gay in Morocco is to face a whole country that thinks you are sick and you are different"
The Strait of Gibraltar has, at its narrowest point, a distance of 14,4 km and its depth ranges between 300 and 900 m at some points. In all safety for thousands of gays and lesbians in Morocco, the distance that separates us is simply insurmountable and has the depth of its own desolation.
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