Iten years ago, same-sex couples were excluded from marriage. Having the right to marry is recognition by the State of the legitimacy of our couples “, indicates Sophie Roques, deputy mayor in charge of civil status at the opening of the evening debate organized by the town hall at Espace Bargemon, Wednesday, May 17, for the 10 years of marriage for all.
A first time in Marseilles, that City Hall host a debate on LBTQI+ rights “, as Sophie Roques reminds us. She recalled the importance of the issue of civil status, “the intimate that has its share in the public sphere “. Its evolution and its compliance with the law were central to Marseille, “ a city that was not equal to society, nor to the law. »
Throughout this evening, one question: what rights for LGBTI+ people and families? To answer it, five speakers, two anthropologists Jérome Courduriès and Laurence Hérault, a lawyer, specialist in family law, Caroline Mecary, Erwann Binet, former deputy and rapporteur for the law and Flora Bolter co-director of the LGBT Observatory of the Jean-Jaurès Foundation, who returned to the adoption of the law in 2013.
Fights
who continue
On this world day against homophobia and transphobia, the City of Marseille wants to strengthen its commitment to the rights of LGBTI+ people. Because as Théo Challande Névoret, deputy mayor in charge of the fight against discrimination, reminds us, “ there is still progress to be made “. He gives two particularly significant figures: 22% of violent attacks concern transgender people. ” The next step in our fight is for the rights of transgender people announces Théo Challande Névoret. It also reveals that of the testimonies that mention violence or threats of violence, approximately 50% report refusal to take a complaint or discriminatory remarks or actions on the part of representatives of authorities, in particular the public service. , nursing staff, police, security guards…
With this evening but through an exhibition* of photographs which traces the struggles for the rights of LGBTI+ people, locally and internationally since 1969, Marseille affirms that it is a city for all.
*proposed by the association Mémoire des sexualités
memoire-sexualites.org
2023-05-18 12:04:08
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