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Writer Taia Challenges Homosexual Taboo In Morocco

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First Posted: 12/31/10 06:59 AM ET Updated: 05/25/11 07:20 PM ET

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Yahoo! News:

Novelist Abdellah Taia, who has won acclaim in France and readers abroad, has challenged a taboo in his native Morocco and won't back down: he is the first writer to come out as gay in a country that bans homosexuality.

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susane07
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11:10 PM on 01/23/2011
I heard the king of Morocco is gay - got married to a beard a few years ago.
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03:58 PM on 01/04/2011
I suspect that a lot of the clerics in Morocco who rant against homosexuality are due to be rehashes of Ted Haggard, George Rekers, etc.
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NathaninSeattle
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03:11 PM on 01/01/2011
Courage is exactly right. I wonder how long he worried about whether he would still find work as a writer before he made the decision? An amazing man.
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DollParts
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08:27 AM on 12/31/2010
courage.
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