CAroline Cayeux, current minister in charge of local authorities, began her mandate by confirming homophobic remarks she had made in 2012, during the debates on marriage for all: a reform described as « caprice » and one “design against nature”. Then, imposed by his peers, came regrets of rare incompetence for a person embodying the Republic.
The Minister thought it best to find the parade by indicating that she also had friends among ” These people “ to strike out the homophobic hypothesis. She later apologized for this expression, free to those who were offended to accept them or not.
We, ” These people “, do not understand how it is possible that a minister with such inconsiderate remarks can be maintained within a government. ” These people ” is a denomination turpid which de facto relegates homosexuals to a category of the population distinct from that to which the speaker would belong.
For fifty years, pride has made visible in the public space and in language all the diversity of sexual orientations, families and genders. Mme Cayeux uses a rhetoric of anonymization that goes against our long march of equal rights, freedom and security. Not naming us explicitly contributes to his intimate choice not to validate equality rights for marriage or adoption.
A singular sign
Minister, his semantic choice becomes a political choice: making invisible in language and in the law is no longer just an awkwardness, but a wound inflicted by repeated positions and chosen words. For ” These people “, this injury is far from healed. She remains lively and open.
To show that we are not giving in to the impulse of the “minority LGBT community”, is each time to court a little more this France which has been so “humiliated” during the debates on marriage for all, in the words by Emmanuel Macron
Tribunes, petitions, and various appeals co-signed by LGBT + associations (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender people or people who do not recognize themselves as heterosexual or cisgender) and even people close to the President of the Republic such as the communication adviser Sylvain Fort, the boss of the SOS group, Jean-Marc Borello, or the writer Philippe Besson have not changed anything, for the moment. These actions came to remind us that our republic is indivisible and also demonstrate that a minister who would have made racist remarks would not have made the day, even if she had apologized.
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