Behind her sunglasses, Laura-Linh takes the measure of the demonstration of which she and her companion Océane are at the origin. “When we called for a rally for June 3 in Thionville, we didn’t really know what to expect. We thought maybe ten, twenty people will be there. But there, I think we really broke the record; we are more than forty if I counted correctly… Such a success in Thionville, that’s not nothing…”
Behind the colorful banners and the spoken word, the emotion is palpable. In this Pride month, the Osmose collective tries to make the voice of the LGBTQI + community heard (acronym for Lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, queer and intersex to which must be added asexual or aromantic) so far little represented in the second city of Moselle.
Among the small colorful crowd, there are many very young people. “It’s the public that we are clearly targeting”, continues Laura-Linh, who knows how much growing up in the provinces when you don’t fit into the dominant model remains a course strewn with obstacles. The gaze and the judgment of others, the questions that remain unanswered… “Even today, there are things to conquer on transidentity, such as facilitating administrative procedures for example. Above all, there is a lot of violence against our community and that is unacceptable. »
Local search in town
Created last December, the Osmose association is slowly starting to make itself known in the north of Moselle. The ideal would be to be able to have premises in town, a stone’s throw from high schools, “where young people could easily come and see us. The people who contact us on social networks tell us: they don’t listen; many live in families that are still very traditional where it is difficult to reveal themselves”. A request has gone to this effect at the town hall; “we expect a return”.
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