“We don’t allow people to out members of the L.G.B.T.Q.+ community because it puts them at risk,” the spokesperson wrote in an email. However, we showed a bunch of young queer people, who are scared and in quarantine, that they are not alone, that they have the force of the international queer community behind them.”Ī spokesperson for Facebook, which owns Instagram, confirmed that Ms. “We did not solve the issue of queer-phobia in Morocco. “For now the account has been suspended, and already a new one has popped up,” he said. Moussa and of Morocco’s discriminatory laws.Īdam Eli, the founder of the New York-based activist group Voices4, worked in coordination with Moroccan L.G.B.T.Q.
The attacks ignited a firestorm of criticism, both of Ms. Moussa’s lead and created fake accounts on the apps to gather photos of gay men, which they then posted on private and public Facebook pages, setting off the homophobic attacks.
In subsequent videos, she said her aim was to reveal the hypocrisy of Moroccan society by showing her attackers how many gay men were living in their vicinity, perhaps even in their own homes.
