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Thursday 15 April 2021
On the main thoroughfare in Tunis, protesters came head-to-head with a row of police officers who were blocking their way. It was late January and hundreds of Tunisians were marching to call for the release of nearly 2,000 young people detained during the violent crackdown on protests that took place throughout the month. Pressed up against the police shields, 23-year-old Hamma, wearing a grey beanie and red face mask, got into an argument.
A passer-by had called Hamma a “fag” as she stopped to defend the police. “My dear, as much as I’m a ‘fag,’ I respect him [the police officer] as a man and so he should fucking respect me,” he told her, recalling the harassment he has experienced at the hands of the police. The heated two-minute exchange was filmed and clips of it were shared on Facebook – where it took on a life of its own. As the video spread online, Hamma was forcibly outed as gay in a country where homosexuality is not widely accepted a