The International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia takes place each year in reference to May 17, 1990, the day when the World Health Organization removed homosexuality from the list of mental illnesses. More than 70 countries around the world penalize lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender people with forced labor, imprisonment, torture, or the death penalty.
With 1,650 reports in 2017, the increase in cases of LGBTphobia reported to SOS Homophobia is confirmed (4.8% more than in 2016). After a year of decline, reports of physical assaults increased by 15%: 139 cases, equating to a homo/transphobic assault every three days in France in 2017.
The LGBT Center Côte d’Azur and its partners invite everyone to gather at 6:30 PM at Place Garibaldi for a large rally featuring a spectacular and surprising staging of the effects of homophobic and transphobic policies.*
On the occasion of the International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia, the LGBT Center Côte d’Azur and all the associations it comprises, who fight year-round for the dignity, rights, and health of the most vulnerable among us, will strongly remind everyone that the preservation and enforcement of fundamental human rights and the protection of the most fragile should be imperatives of fraternity, here in the Alpes-Maritimes, in France, and in Europe.
Nice-Premium: Amidst the parliamentary debate around the Asylum and Immigration law, and five years after the passing of the marriage law for all, where do the rights of LGBT people (lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender) stand in France and around the world?
Erwann Le Hô, President of the LGBT Center: Following the debates of the National Bioethics Consultations, which were yet again an opportunity for stigmatizing all family forms, whether single-parent or same-sex families in particular, the opening of Medically Assisted Procreation to all women is still awaited.
The debates around the Asylum and Immigration bill also concern us greatly. This proposed law promises the worst for LGBT people threatened with persecution or death seeking asylum in France due to their sexual orientation, their LGBT activism in notoriously LGBTphobic countries, their HIV-positive status, and more broadly, for medical reasons. The case of Moussa, a homosexual Guinean who risks being returned to a country where three years of imprisonment, repression, or worse awaits him, is a sad illustration. The extension of detention periods to 135 days in detention centers, the reduction of time limits for asylum applications, and appeals due to HIV-positive status and for medical reasons will particularly endanger LGBT asylum seekers coming to the national territory.
We will not let LGBT people be lynched or die in indifference!
