Homosexualité au Sénégal : La position tranchée et assumée de Fatou Diome
Invited to the YouTube channel "Prieuré Sainte Marie", the Franco-Senegalese writer Fatou Diome discussed the situation of homosexuals in her country of origin. She strongly denounced the persecution they face.
"The stupidity in some African countries is to say: 'Ah, homosexuality, it comes from elsewhere, it is not our culture, it does not exist here.' It is a tremendous sham. It is, for example, to say that these countries are not part of human society," she charged from the outset.
"What other people do in their beds is none of my business..."
According to the writer, homosexuality should be considered the equivalent of secularism 'where people are left alone with their faith and their way of believing and practicing their religions'.
“I am definitely straight. Let’s be clear about that. But what other people do in their beds is none of my business… I would like people to be left alone in their private lives,” continued the Niodior native, not without mentioning a societal reality that suggests homosexuality has existed for more than forty years in her country of origin.
"Gôor-jigéen", the men-women
“In Senegal, we had the gôor-jigéen. If the term exists, it’s because this reality exists. Gôor-jigéen means man-woman. When I was little, there were dances, and (it was) very well-groomed, very elegant men who organized everything. Everyone knew that these guys weren’t strictly heterosexual, as people say. And yet, sometimes they didn’t have jobs and they lived well. They ate well, dressed well, and had beautiful jewelry. Who financed them? Who supported them? If we really want to ask the question, we have to go all the way. It doesn’t come out of nowhere,” the writer stated.
She believes that Senegal should not sink into "social perversity" because, going "to question someone's simple sexuality is a social perversion.
"People, regardless of their sexual orientation, remain citizens with the same rights," argues the Franco-Senegalese writer.
"When you endanger the lives of others, you must be punished, and severely."
However, she was keen to distinguish between the persecution of homosexuals and the deliberate transmission of HIV/AIDS by the latter.
"In the country, it seems that there are people who have deliberately spread diseases; that is a matter of legality, of the civil code. When you endanger the lives of others, you must be punished, and severely," said Fatou Diome.
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