Paris, the walk of the prides solidarity: for the equal rights, “discriminations with the carpet”

Hundreds of thousands of people ravel, Saturday, June 30, in the streets of the capital for the equal rights and against discriminations in a festive atmosphere.

Edition 2018 of this walk of the prides, organized for more than ten years by (Inter–LGBT) thanks to 300 voluntary and their president Aurore Fourcy, has started with Harmony in the presence of Anne Hidalgo, Joan Luc Roméro, Ian Brssat, Hélène Bidard, Jack Lang, the godfather and the godmother of this edition, the sportsmen Arnaud Assoumani and Sarah Daninthe. Political personalities were noticed among the mayors and the partners this year: Christophe Castaner, Marlène Schippa, Mounir Mahjoubi, Frédéric Potier, Philippe Martinez.

The procession left the place of the Harmony, at 2 p.m. and should arrive on the place of the Republic around 5 p.m. There, place the large podium of end of walk will take, 5 p.m. to 10 p.m., during which many artists will occur, like Rebeka Warrior, the collective gay–queer Bambi Gang, Arnaud Rebotini or Kiddy Spall.

For the first time in the history of the event, the Town hall of Paris will have its own tank. Inter–LGBT also decided, in partnership with HandiQueer, to organize a tank for the people with reduced mobility. Another first, a tank “trans dyke/”, intended for better promoting the visibility of the lesbians and transsexuals.

In an official statement, the association, for which “the sport is revealing state of mind of our company”, says to mobilize itself “against the discriminations and the violences undergone by the people LGBTQI +, in the sporting mediums as in the rest of their lives”. “So certain sports events, with the image of the Gay Games which will be held in Paris from August 4th to August 12th, endeavour to promote diversity and inclusion, force is to note that many others are held with no regard for human rights, starting with the Football world cup in Russia this year then in Qatar in 2022”, it added.

By this slogan, the militants wish to denounce “the homophobe songs in the stages”, “the treatments and mutilations undergone by the female athletes” and “impossibility of evoking its homosexuality in the sport not to lose sponsors”, detailed the spokesperson of Inter–LGBT, Clémence Zamora–Cruz, at the time of a press conference.

Certain collectives, like S.O.S–Homophobia, however announced that they would go behind the slogan “LDC, the equality does not wait! ” “to ask the government and to begin the debate at the Parliament as fast as possible”.

“I hope for that the calendar proposed will be held and that the vote will be able to be made at the beginning of 2019 because the perpetual carryforward of this decision is a scandal. The life plans and of parenting of the unmarried women or in couple are not toys. For the moment, the parliamentary debates did not really start and the body politic remains a little in the expectancy. Much among us expects a strong and explicit word.”

There is with the government and the Parliament of the people convinced on the opening of procreation medically assisted (LDC), and motivated in advance the things.

Many French large companies, the private sector and the civil service, also has their tank, in order to celebrate the right to the difference in professional environment. It is also the case of major political parties. (Air France, FACEBOOK, PCF, Gay Games, CGT, S.O.S Homophobia, Act Up, etc)

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