About fifty LGBT + personalities and organizations joined this Wednesday to publish a forum denouncing racism and the discrimination it causes. "The time has come to mobilize us even more alongside the anti-racists", writes the fifty signatories in a text relayed by France Info . […] “We know that belonging to several discriminated categories increases the burden of inequalities and stigmatizations, they explain. This must change. ” This tribune is part of a context of demonstrations in tribute to the African-American George Floyd, killed by a police officer in Minneapolis, in the United States.
Associations, journalists, activists and group leaders behind the tribune evoke three of the activists who launched the riots in Stonewall in New York in 1969 in the face of police violence against the homosexual community. "The first was black, the second Latin and the third mestizo, says the text. […] Countless times, LGBT + people and associations have demonstrated to demand equal rights and respect, in public space, at work, as in the private sphere ”.
"Equality is never acquired"
“We, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex personalities and all other variants of gender identities or sexual orientations (LGBT +), know that equality is never acquired: it must fight for it ", write the authors who say they are" naturally in solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movement and all the struggles to fight racism, everywhere in the world ".
Despite progress, the signatories recognize "the low representation of all minorities [...] in our own structures and organizations". Activists therefore undertake to "propose, support or carry out various actions [...] in our associative, professional and personal ecosystems, to help the advancement of an ideal of equity and equality". Personalities such as Alex Goude, Christophe Beaugrand, and many associations, name AIDES, are among the signatories.
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