• The third season of the

    Quouïr

    podcast

    , titled

    Au nom du fils

    , is now available.

  • Directed by journalist Rozenn Le Carboulec, this season 3 features the testimony of Augustin, a young gay man of 19, whom his parents took in 2012 in the processions of the Manif pour tous opposing the opening of the marriage gay couples.

  • “The podcast allowed me to put into words what had happened, the emotions that I might have felt.

    It was almost therapeutic work, and it made me feel good, ”Augustin told

    20 Minutes

    .

After a first season devoted to coming-out and a second dedicated to LGBTQI + parenthood (lesbians, gays, bis, trans, queer, intersex people), the

Quouïr

podcast

returns to "give a voice to those who do not have it" , with

In the name of the son

, launched this Thursday on all listening platforms.

Worn by journalist Rozenn Le Carboulec, this third season traces the career of 19-year-old Augustin.

The young man, who today assumes his homosexuality, evokes the family, Catholic environment in which he was immersed.

In 2012 and 2013, when he was a child, his parents took him in the processions of the Manif pour tous to oppose the opening of marriage to gay and lesbian couples.

Rozenn Le Carboulec and Augustin have agreed to answer

20 Minutes'

questions 

behind the scenes of this intimate third season, far from any voyeurism.

What was the starting point for this third season?

Rozenn Le Carboulec:

In January, I wrote an article written for

Le Monde

 on the occasion of which I interviewed young people who discovered they were LGBT and whose parents had taken to the Manif pour tous.

At that time, some testimonies were starting to circulate on social networks and I said to myself that it was absolutely necessary to make these words heard.

In writing the article, I said to myself that we had to go further in deciphering and analyzing what this period might have represented for the young people who had more or less suffered it, for LGBT people in as a whole, and also for society in general.

How did you meet afterwards?

A. Le C .: 

I published a call for testimony in June. I received several dozen responses. Among them was Augustine's. He told me, in a rather detached way: "I correspond perfectly to the profile that you describe and am ready to speak about it, I am a" survivor "of the Manif pour tous, and today I am capable of to laugh ”. So I contacted him, like all the people who had written to me. He happened to be the only one whose relatives agreed to testify. It was a

sine qua non

for me, I absolutely wanted to involve the families who had brought their children to these gatherings with a view to making them realize, perhaps, the impacts that it could have had.

Augustin:

I sent this message to Rozenn a little naively because I matched the profile, it spoke to me.

Then I realized that it was a good way to talk to my family about all these topics that we never discuss.

For them, the Manif pour tous was a moment in our family life like any other, when I had experienced it completely differently.

Did you have any difficulty convincing them to testify?

A .:

Not even, I sent a message to the family's Whatsapp group, and almost everyone answered yes.

It was the first post I really told everyone about being gay.

They all knew it more or less, but we hadn't really discussed it all together.

They hadn't learned it from me, anyway.

R. Le C .: 

He dropped the bomb a bit in this group: "First info: I'm gay, second info: I'm going to say it in a podcast, and you will participate" (laughs).

What was your goal in performing or testifying in this podcast?

R. The C.: 

My goal was to try to give voice to people who do not have it, it is a little bit the high point of my work. Throughout this season, I really wanted to get to the bottom of things, to shed light on and contextualize Augustin's words with that of professionals such as sociologists or linguistics teachers. It seemed essential to me to leave a trace of this fight, which was very important for the rights of LGBT people and which was very painful. I also wanted to highlight the responsibility of several people, several groups, in the surge of homophobic hatred that we experienced at that time. Both in relation to the families who participated and who were perhaps in denial, but also the religion, the media, which have a very strong responsibility for what happened.So it was a way of contextualizing and recalling all that.

A .:

I had the impression that the Manif pour tous was no longer really a subject.

However, this is a subject that is not closed.

However, I haven't seen anything in the media in recent months and we haven't heard too much about the impacts that it had.

I think this is a way to bring the issue back to the table.

There are inevitably consequences that we do not think about on gay people who were taken there by their parents.

The podcast sheds light on all of this, and it personally allowed me to put words into what had happened, on the emotions that I might have felt.

It was almost therapeutic work, and it made me feel good.

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