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zondag 31 augustus 2014

(en) France, Coordination of Anarchist Groups - IAL #100 - LGBT and feminist struggles in some key appointments (fr, pt)

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The pride parades are part of the calendar of LGBT activist and feminist struggles, and 
several other times of visibility, commemoration and claim that take place throughout the 
year. ---- > March 8: International Day of Women's Rights, which has existed since the 
early twentieth century. This day is politicized by some media and advertisers who renamed 
it "Women's Day" to better sell flower bouquets, jewelry and perfumes. Despite the usual 
artifice of misogynist jokes uninhibited on this day fire, women are on the streets every 
year, either in mixed or processions in reclaiming public space at night marches in 
single-sex. ---- > The last Sunday of April: the day of remembrance of the victims and 
heroes of the deportation. This is to bring the memory of the deportation on the grounds 
of homosexuality is still not officially recognized by the French Republic.

> May 17: International Day against Homophobia and Transphobia (English IDAHOT,
International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia), launched May 17, 2005 by 
Louis-Georges Tin exactly 15 years after the removal of homosexuality from the list of 
mental illnesses in the International Classification of Diseases published by the World 
Health Organization. Of months or more institutional events (conferences...) or activists 
like gatherings are held each year on this day to continue the fight against homophobia 
and transphobia.

> Month of June: Pride. It is the commemoration of the Stonewall riots occurred in June
1969 in New York in response to police repression. In 2014, the Pride took place in 
Angers, Arras, Auxerre, Avignon, Biarritz, Bordeaux, Caen, Crest, Dijon, Le Mans, Lille, 
Lyon, Marseille, Metz, Montpellier, Nancy, Nantes, Nice, Paris, Poitiers, Rennes, Rouen, 
Strasbourg, Toulouse and Tours. It is an event often criticized regarding its market 
recovery. However, this is a criticism that is also worn internally, as found in the Pride 
politicized and radical processions which should be united.

> Month of October: the Existrans. It is the manifestation of the trans & intersex and
those who support them. It takes place in Paris since 1997, The event is organized 
annually by an interagency group of associations (collectively Existrans), based on a set 
of common demands: free free civil status change, and d?m?dicalis? diverted, free choice 
and reimbursement of medical course, respect for gender identity and improving the lives 
of trans people in prison, stopping operations / mutilation of intersex children, 
self-determination of intersex people, regularization of undocumented trans...

> November 20. Remembrance Day trans (English TDOR, Transgender Day of Remembrance This
is a day of remembrance for victims of transphobia, which kills many people each year 
worldwide (especially trans women, often prostitutes and / or racialized) and 
visibilisation of transphobic violence.

> November 25, the International Day against male violence, denouncing all forms of
violence against women.

> December 1: World Day against AIDS.



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