Every year, hundreds or even thousands of gay people across Algeria get married in such “rainbow weddings”, because of social and familial pressure. In a country where homosexuality is a crime – punishable by two months to two years in prison, along with a heavy fine – marrying a person of another gender has become the alternative to coming out, when the latter leads to ostracisation from society.
This year’s TenTen – the Algerian LGBTQ community’s 11th annual day of solidarity, are organised by their advocacy group Alouen.
In Algeria you have rainbow marriages – Lesbian woman marrying a gay man to elude rigid society.
Photo by Benson Kua [CC BY-SA 2.0], via Wikimedia Commons
