I am Almoz
I am Almoz. I am a belly dancer. I am also queer. Hear the untold story that needs to be told. Let darkness unfold and let the powers that be be shamed . I have suffered so much because of who I am. I barely made it across the country in order to find and get to my safe space. My deliverance from this miry clay of a waterless pit of despair was nothing short of miraculous. I have faced shame and stigma all my life for being me. There are still untold amount of people out there (all around the world) who remain petulantly unwilling to accept queer people, people like me. They desperately seek any petty excuse to attack us, even going as far as getting physical. During Trump administration, and subsequently during Covid, I, along with many others in my community, have been suffering the worst setbacks of increasing homophobia and transphobia the likes of which we hadn’t seen for a long time. It came quickly as a shock. It was as though people had suddenly changed their minds about us.