Gay Moroc: The experience is very different for Morocns and foreigners.

Contents:

• ELSKA’S LATT ISSUE SHAR CANDID STORI AND IMAG FROM GAY CASABLAN, MOROC
• GAY AND GAY-IENDLY HOTELS CASABLAN
• WHAT’S IT LIKE TO BE GAY … MOROC?

ELSKA’S LATT ISSUE SHAR CANDID STORI AND IMAG FROM GAY CASABLAN, MOROC

Omar is a 21-year-old gay Morocn. Omar’s fears are rooted the fact that homosexualy is a crimal offence Moroc, as is many other Ain untri.

GAY AND GAY-IENDLY HOTELS CASABLAN

The law b wh a strongly nservative society to create a real sense of danger for members of Moroc’s lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and tersex (LGBTI) muni. And, as I pot out my book, the weight of Islam – Moroc is a predomantly Mlim untry – adds another dimensn, accentuatg gay people’s feelgs of nial, self-loathg and guilt.

WHAT’S IT LIKE TO BE GAY … MOROC?

There have been several high profile s of homophobic vlence Moroc. In July 2015, a man was btally beaten the cy of Fès by a mob who hurled ephets at him bee he was apparently gay.

They were later released, but not before the UN Human Rights Commtee reacted to the story by llg on Moroc’s thori to crimalise homosexualy.

Human Rights Watch has repeatedly echoed this ll, potg out that the crimalisatn of homosexualy do not ply wh Moroc’s 2011 Constutn.