Neither the weather nor the human bullshit managed to ruin the party with a beautiful parade in the city that had taken the colors of the rainbow. Unfortunately, walking to claim the freedom to be who you are and to love who you want is still a necessity given the LGBT-phobic discrimination that persists. Not to mention the violence suffered by these people in public space or in the surrounding environment.
“There is still a lot of work to be done to change thegard. It has evolved well, but beware, violence is on the rise again“Warns Mireille Chaperon (League for Human Rights). “We also scroll for all those who cannot“, He continues, recalling that there are still many countries where LGBT people risk imprisonment when it is not the death penalty.
And it is not necessary to go far to measure the path to take, given the homophobic signs that appeared the night before in the city, and for which the mayor of Toulon Hubert Falco immediately reacted by expressing all his indignation, condemning these acts. He announced a complaint for homophobia and degradation of public goods.
“Usually, the tags we had until now after the march. There they decided to do it first. “Not surprised Benoît Arnulfle, the coordinator of the Les Ouvreurs association specifies that if the goal was to discourage them, it really failed. Indeed, he even adds him. And to emphasize that:Toulon is a city where we obviously need many actions like this and others. ” Even if, he immediately adds, the majority of the population finds it rather pleasant “.
” There are colors, smiles, young people, the joy of living … We do not see at all where we could inscribe hatred and rejection “, Underlines the associative activist. This is all true. But this is to misunderstand the propensity of the far right to generate this type of destructive drive.
” Of course, it turns out that some people with backward ideas have a hard time catching up, they will have to get there, we will gradually help them. “, concludes.
A path again loaded with meanings, “so that the invisible becomes visible“, As Nicky of the SOS Homophobia association points out.
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