STRONG IN OUR DIVERSITY, LET'S KEEP ON THE FIGHT
The 20th July, 2019, was a specially colorful and a sunny afternoon of “Fiesta” in Montpellier, with the occasion of the 26th Gay Pride that
brought for this new edition the slogan: “Marche des Diversités: mettons la haine hors du combat”, where hundreds
of members from the LGBTQI+ community as well as heterosexual people gathered
together to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall riots, where
pride began, the violent clash that kicked off the gay rights movement in New
York City in 1969.
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As every year of pride in
Montpellier since 1994 this new edition was the occasion to celebrate the courageous
group of homosexual people as Marsha P. Johnson (1945-1992), who tried to live
with dignity and self-respect while hard circumstances of police pressure and
an anti-gay legal system pushed them to fight towards
freedom.
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They marched from the Peyrou Park to
The Comedy Square holding and shouting out loud powerful phrases like: “Be yourself”, “Strong in our diversity”, “Equality, respect and diversity”, “Live our sexual orientation and our gender identity is a fundamental freedom”, and even they song the
lyrics of the Stonewall Anthem:
“We are the Stonewall Girls,
we wear
our hair in curls,
we wear no underwear,
we show our public hair,
we wear our
dungarees,
above our Nelly knees”.
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This was also the opportunity to sensitize people about some realistic facts from homosexuality. According to the organizers the 8%
of French people still think the homosexuality as a mental illness. 72 states
have a repressive legal system against homosexuals, sometimes sentenced to
capital punishment or life in prison. Another fact is that in 2018 the World Health Organization (WHO) has removed trans
identity as a mental and behavioral disorder. Furthermore, what about the fact that homosexual or bisexual people would be 10 to 13 times more likely to attempt
suicide than their heterosexual peers* ?
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"For every movement and every injustice, there is a moment that changes history".
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