Artist and influencerDivine‘ condemned a brutal homophobic attack that took place in Madrid this weekend for which he needed medical attention and surgical intervention.
As reported by the singer on social networks, someone punched her. broken part of eye socket, nose in three places and cheekbone. “I woke up unconscious and when I looked in the mirror I had to straighten my nose before calling an ambulance. I don’t feel the right side of my face and I don’t know if I will ever feel it again,” she said. .
The attacked yesterday went to the operating room to repair the bones of his face. “They tried to kill me. I have been subjected to a homophobic attack, I have been the victim of (another) hate crime. He said before, ‘You always think it’s going to happen to someone else,’ but it’s not: now more than ever we think it could happen to us at any time,” he explained.
‘Divine’ criticized ‘opening up’ now more than everMay the cages of homophobes, transphobics, xenophobes and murderers come after us.It has a voice in congresses, senates, television, in Europe and in the world. But I’m not a good prey. I am afraid of losing my loved ones, I am afraid; But you can’t scare me because I’m going to catch you legally. You can’t scare me because I’ll die by killing if necessary. “I’m afraid many brothers feel lonely and I will do my best not to feel that way.”
That’s why he’s asking the LGTBI+ community “to be a bundle, not a collective” and his cause to be extended to the maximum extent possible “to raise awareness of this community that homophobia and hate are on our streets and we must eradicate it”. The artist concluded on his network, “For all who are, for all who will be”.