Light a candle for the Algerian LGBT Day!

On the 10th of October, the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Intersex and Queer community in Algeria will light up its candle to celebrate the national day "TEN TEN" which takes place for the 6th time this year.

 

The statement by the Algerian LGBT organization Abu Nawas says: “After thousands of lighted candles expressing hope, we arrive today to look back to a year of an incomparable mobilization. Indeed, in addition to the integration and the joining of many of our own to our daily struggle for our right to live with dignity, we can also count a great number of activists in the world of civil society who have joined us in their own name or the name of their organizations to say that our battle has now become theirs too. It is now clear that no battle for full and indivisible citizenship in Algeria can be done without the strength of Algerian LGBTQI activists.”

 

“Thanks to the tireless efforts of Abu Nawas, we managed to make our voices heard beyond the lands of Algeria and to join to our struggle a great international support. It even took shape in action when, last May in Geneva during the Universal Periodic Review, the Algerian government was interpellated in order to remove the law 338 of the Penal Code which still criminalizes homosexuality today.”

 

“So we let hope and mobilization forging us and we choose for the year to come the Union way, the Union of all the activists in the cause and of all the organizations that are acting on the ground to say that we remain committed, despite all the constraints to conquer our most basic rights, including the most natural one of them, that of being considered as ‘human beings’.”

 

To show solidarity with the Algerian community, all individual and collective energies anywhere in the world are invited to join this union and share their pictures taken with their lit candles and showing from where they join the action. Human rights are the concern of globe, and a global act is the way to show that no one should be excluded.

 

All individuals are invited to celebrate this day every year by lighting a candle on Wednesday, October 10, 2012 at 8pm. As Abu Nawas puts it, “As far from each other as they can be lit, these candles will remain very representative of the union of our strength on our fight for our right to be different.”

 

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