the pride march brings together several hundred people
At the call of the AIDES association, the pride march took place in Dijon, starting from Place Wilson towards Place de la République, on Saturday September 25.
There had been no pride march for eight years in Dijon! The very festive event served on the one hand to claim its status but on the other hand to show that the rights of LGBTQI + communities (see box) have not yet been acquired.
A march to recall the rights of LGBT communities
They came to demonstrate, a pride in claiming their difference, their sexual orientation. A manifesto calling for more recognition: “It’s not a crime to be different or to love the same kind as yourself. It should stop that, to be discriminated against and put aside. It must not become a taboo subject anymore.”
Many young demonstrators are in the procession, they are college students, high school students. For a manifesto, “It’s a pride to be here. I feel good!”
Two drag queens claim their right to be different:“In Dijon, we need it. LGBT people, like us, do not dare to go out. We are a small provincial town, people do not dare, so we are there to assert ourselves.” Regarding the inclusion of LGBT people in France, the other responds: “It is from the facade. There is a political discourse which tends to say ‘we accept everyone’, and the reality of life, we know very well that it is not that! there is a need for moments of visibility like these and of power to boost morale and remind people that political discourse is not a discourse of truth either! “
Support from associations
Emmanuel Bodoignet, president of the Aids association Bourgogne-Franche-Comté recalls the fundamental fight of associations in favor of LGBT communities: “the message to get across is not to remain in isolation. Today LGBTQI + audiences are isolated, all the more so when there is no life or structure that organizes. If we stay isolated, that’s how we fall into depression and end up with suicides or homicides, which we want to avoid at all costs. “
What does LGBTQI + mean?
The acronym LGBTQI + includes many communities, and
THEesbian : a homosexual woman, that is to say a woman who is marked romantically and / or sexually by women
gYes : a homosexual man, that is to say a man who is romantically and / or sexually by men.
BI (sexual): person linked physically, sexually, emotionally or romantically by people of the same gender and the opposite gender
Tshort (gender): person whose gender identity differs from the one assigned at birth based on their (biological) sex.
Queer : “is said of a person whose sex, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity and / or gender expression differs from society’s expectations, is considered non-conforming, non-traditional, out of category, “ according to the definition given in the lexicon of the Rainbow House.
It was originally an insult in the English language (“weird”, “deviant” … editor’s note). “This term is less used today. It could be equivalent to pansexual, which could mean: “Leave all possibilities open”
Iintersex / intersex : people born with visible and / or non-visible sexual characteristics (such as chromosomes, genitals, hormones…) do not fully correspond to the male or female categories, or belonging to both at the same time.
+ : for all other identities, orientations, expressions which are not represented in the other letters of the acronym, such as, among others:
Asexual : person who does not feel sexual attraction, or rarely, which does not prevent him from being able to be physically or intellectually
Pansexual : physically, sexually, emotionally or romantically remarkable people towards people without distinction in terms of gender and sex of the person
Agenre : person who does not identify with any gender