A-Infos (en) France, UCL AL #372 - In the Spotlight - Pride Month: For an LGBTI Counter-Offensive (ca, de, fr, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

Since the decriminalization and then the depathologization of 
homosexuality in the 1980s, it is through our struggles and those of our 
predecessors that we have won new rights. ---- Access to marriage in 
2013, the change of gender marker on civil status documents since 2016 
without the requirement of surgery, and access to assisted reproductive 
technology (ART) for cisgender women in 2021 were not achieved without 
opposition, and the year 2012-2013, the year of marriage equality, 
remains etched in the memories of our communities for its violence.

Faced with the reactionary offensive...
Even today, the advance for our rights seems to have stalled. 
Reactionary attacks and recurring funding shortages for 
anti-discrimination policies render these policies utopian, particularly 
for migrants, residents of so-called "overseas" neo-colonies, and those 
living in rural areas.

This situation is not unique to France, as internationally we are 
witnessing an offensive against LGBTI rights. Our siblings[1]are having 
their parental rights revoked in Italy, they[2]are once again imprisoned 
in Burkina Faso and in 64 other countries, raids are being organized in 
Senegal, and the European Commission refuses to ban conversion therapy 
in the EU. In 2026, we will still be dying for being LGBTI. In the 
United States, where a genocidal risk against trans people has been 
documented, the situation is particularly alarming. Not only locally, 
where the Republican Party has used transphobia as a strategic 
springboard to construct an "enemy within" and control bodies; but 
throughout a capitalist world where American politics is held up as a 
model and serves as an example to all far-right parties, including the 
National Rally in France. And supporting them: billionaires like Vincent 
Bolloré and Pierre-Edouard Stérin, determined to criminalize us in the 
public debate through the media and cultural institutions they control.

...organize the response
Faced with this grim reality, one thing is clear: solidarity and the 
fight against the far right are vital necessities. Our communities have 
always been antifascist spaces and must remain so. Not only to defend 
our rights, but also to win new ones: better access to healthcare, 
simplification and depathologization of transition processes, access to 
assisted reproductive technology (ART) for transgender people, an end to 
discrimination in employment and housing, an end to the profiling of 
individuals when applying for a change of legal gender, the effective 
implementation of the program for education in affective, relational, 
and sexual life (EVARS) in all schools... but also other models of love, 
gender, aging, family, and society to replace the patriarchal model.

Faced with oppression, Pride marches are as much a place of hope and joy 
as they are of resistance. The proliferation of Pride marches, 
particularly in rural areas, is living proof of the strength of our 
numbers and marks our determination to fight reactionary violence. It is 
important that these Pride marches remain political and antifascist. We 
do not march simply to come together; we march to overthrow a system 
that oppresses us and accelerates its alliances to erase our rights. Our 
pride knows no borders or blinders: let's demonstrate for international 
anti-fascist LGBTI solidarity.

UCL Anti-Patriarchy Commission

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[1]Neutral term equivalent to "brothers" or "sisters".

[2]Neutral term equivalent to "they".

https://www.unioncommunistelibertaire.org/?Mois-des-fiertes-Pour-une-contre-offensive-LGBTI
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