The third edition of this event was held on Saturday afternoon to defend the rights of LGBTQI+ people residing in working-class neighborhoods.
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A tide of rainbow flags swept through the streets of Saint-Denis (Seine-Saint-Denis). Several thousand people marched on Saturday June 3 for the third edition of the “suburban pride march”. The rally was organized to defend the rights of LGBTQI+ people residing in working-class neighborhoods.
There is “a real lack of visibility for racialized queers”laments Bonita Kouevi, a 20-year-old student, to AFP. “Suburban Pride emphasizes that and that’s good”she adds. “In the suburbs, it’s more complicated because there is less access to help, to care, to listening. (…) In Paris there are many associations and shelters. Queers are not only in the capitals”she continues.
In the procession, demonstrators chanted slogans for medically assisted procreation (PMA) “for all”. The law adopted in 2021 “excluded trans people because people who have the civility of men cannot have access to PMA”explained on franceinfo Yanis Khames, co-coordinator of the event. “So that means that if we are able to procreate, but we have male civility, like many trans men, we do not have access to PMA”he continues.
Source: France TV Info