“The embers of LGBTIphobia are lit”, alert SOS Homophobia | EUROtoday
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2 377. This is the variety of instances of LGBTIphobia obtained by the SOS Homophobia affiliation in 2023. “Another 12 months, we notice the persistence and entrenchment of exclusion, discrimination and hatred towards lesbians, gays, bis, trans and intersex (LGBTI), regardless of the evolution of legal guidelines and mentalities”, writes Julia Torlet, president of the association in the preamble to the new SOS Homophobia report on LGBTIphobias of 2024, which will be published on Thursday .
In 2023, the affiliation collected 2,085 testimonies through its listening and help programs for victims, whether or not by phone, by chat'listening or by testimonial kind. Knowing that one testimony can cowl a number of instances of LGBTIphobia, the affiliation notes a 38% enhance within the variety of testimonies in comparison with final 12 months. “A report which is not exhaustive”, explains Julia Torlet throughout a press briefing, because the census of violence is so tough. “How many actions are silenced, made invisible? » asks the manager again.
For the president of the association, 2024 is “a year that concerns us”. “Beyond the figures, what particularly worries us are the trends that are emerging,” she explains. We have the impression that the embers of LGBTIphobia are lit, the hearth is able to catch. »
Violence that significantly impacts gays
As Ugo Ziccarelli, co-referent of the annual report fee, explains, the figures for the variety of LGBTIphobic assaults and discrimination are usually not comparable between 2022 and 2023, the affiliation having modified its methodology to incorporate extra instances . This report represents “only a tiny part” of the violence skilled by your entire LGBTI neighborhood. “We are unable to have an exhaustive report on the field of LGBTIphobia,” laments Julia Torlet.
READ ALSO Paris: a person sufferer of a homophobic assault in a barThe first recorded victims of this violence are gay males (45%), with a famous enhance within the “unbridled” phenomenon of homophobic ambushes. “Lesbians still remain little visible, which is reflected in particular by the low number of testimonies received. One of the explanations is that lesbians are at the crossroads of two discriminations: homophobia and sexism,” explains Julia Torlet.
This violence is related in 13% of instances with a “sickness of life”, which takes the type of worry concerning the response of these round them, worry in public locations or within the neighborhood, feeling guilt and even psychological misery and melancholy. “No space is protected” from violence, provides Julia Torlet. But the household atmosphere stays the primary place the place this unhappiness manifests itself (20% of instances).
“Trinalization of hateful speech”
The president of SOS Homophobia additionally warns of a “trivialization of hateful speech” in public debate and on social networks. In 2023, 23% of instances of LGBTIphobia befell on-line. “LGBTIphobic and conspiratorial discourse is intensifying on the Internet, and harassment on social networks particularly targets young LGBT people,” notes SOS Homophobia.
The affiliation factors specifically to the numerous drop carefully on Thus, regardless of the European regulation on the combat towards hate speech and the duty of platforms to delete it, 85% of the instances reported to SOS Homophobia are public.
READ ALSO “No homophobic or sexist atmosphere”: the Stanislas college responds to the controversyThe affiliation additionally denounces “reactionary conspiratorial” speeches from organizations and associations, such because the Parent Vigilant motion, from the Reconquête celebration, which use the platforms “to exert pressure on the education system and promote an LGBTIphobic ideology” . “Faced with these attacks, we are facing an abysmal government silence on LGBTI issues, a culpable silence which contributes to trivializing LGBTIphobic violence,” argues Julia Torlet in her report.
The affiliation requires a response from the federal government
The different level of concern for SOS Homophobia is the continuing “wave” of transphobia. Transsexuals are thus the second neighborhood most affected by discrimination, behind gay males.
In this context, SOS Homophobia calls, amongst different issues, for “increased government support to guarantee the rights and integrity of trans people” and “to combat transphobic attacks in the media and on the Internet”. Recently, the affiliation introduced its intention to file a grievance towards the authors of the controversial ebook Transmania Dora Moutot and Marguerite Stern.
READ ALSO “Transmania”: LGBT associations put together the responseOverall, the affiliation requires a response from the federal government, and specifically from Gabriel Attal, the primary Prime Minister to current himself as gay: “Faced with this Republic of pretenses, allow us to make no mistake: in 2024, be one or an LGBTI political chief, together with a number one one, is inadequate if this case shouldn’t be accompanied by concrete political actions. »
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