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In May 2010, the LGBT members of Kif-Kif created the group Menna w Fena ("From us and for us"), an internal group of the Kif-Kif association which is dedicated specifically to lesbians, bisexuals, Transgenders or queer; and has as an objective to protect LGBT women in
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Moroccan LGBT magazine, in print and online. The first edition, printed in Rabat, distributed 200 copies in a clandestine way, since article 489 in the penal code judges homosexuality illegal and
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forum aiming to help
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