On the fourth floor of the Central Library at the Spui you will find up to 070 June the photo exhibition Queer Migrations: Portraits from The Hague. These are nine portraits of people from the LGBTIQ+ community who have moved to The Hague. We talked about it with photographer Zanyar Aziz and with Marnix who is on one of the portraits.
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The photo exhibition is an initiative of the LGBTQ Humans of Amsterdam foundation. With this, the foundation wants to give attention to people from the LGBTIQ+ community who migrate to The Hague. For this they were looking for a photographer who knows this theme inside out. “This topic is perfect for me,” says Zanyar. “My parents fled from Iraq to the Netherlands and I am queer myself.”
“When I started this assignment, I first had to look for people to portray. I was looking for people from diverse cultural backgrounds and from the different letters of the LGBTIQ+ community. To this end, I made an appeal on social media and contacted LGBTIQ+ organizations in The Hague. That’s how I found Marnix.”
The story of Marnix
“Zanyar asked me if I wanted to share the call in our app group, but it suits me so well that I also reported myself,” says Marnix. “I was born in Colombia, but adopted as a child together with my two brothers by a Catholic family in the Netherlands. In recent years I have been looking for my roots. As a result, I discovered that I also had to deal with a lot of prejudice at home. For example, I tan quickly in the summer. Then my adoptive mother said: nice tan, smear that on me too.” “Furthermore, as a child I was never allowed to be who I was”, Marnix continues. “I was not allowed to play football and I had to be a girly girl with dresses on. I have been in transition to a man for a year and a half and have broken off contact with my adoptive parents. I don’t even want to use the last name I got from them anymore. My two brothers are now my family here.” Read more after the photo >
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