2023-05-17 13:45:43
Vincent Autin and Bruno Boileau: “We had to use the press to finally send a message of love where hatred had occupied the field for months”
Vincent Autin and Bruno Boileau struggle to separate the intimacy from the exceptional nature of their wedding ceremony. “Gay First Married” after the promulgation of the text, the two men exchanged their vows under the cameras of the whole world, on May 29, 2013. « At the automne [2012], [la ministre des droits des femmes] Najat Vallaud-Belkacem goes to Montpellier where we lived, and where Vincent was president of an association for the defense of LGBT rights”, recalls Bruno Boileau.
“She then said that it could be good, when the law is passed, that the first marriage be celebrated in Montpellier and that it is Vincent and his companion – me, therefore – who are the first married. » Bruno is not present at this public meeting, it is a call from Vincent, with whom he has been in a relationship for six years, which warns him.
From then on, the two men became the face of this law under construction, which provoked so much reaction. And thanks to the assistance of the town hall of Montpellier, which pre-records their banns, eleven days after the promulgation of the text, they are therefore the first married people of the “Taubira law”. “The symbolic dimension is indisputable, and for me, as an activist, it was obviously a victory”, recognizes Vincent Autin. D-day, “we knew that there would be a lot of people, and that we had to use the press to finally send a message of love where hatred had, for months, occupied the ground”.
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