A-Infos (en) France, UCL press release, In the face of fascist danger, patriarchy and lesbophobia, long live lesbian visibility and resistance! (ca, de, it, fr, pt, tr)[machine translation]

In 1982, the first march for lesbian visibility was organized in Canada. 40 years 
later, lesbians and their allies continue to march. Last year 10,000 people 
marched in Paris, heralding the first mass demonstration of lesbians and their 
supporters in France. Today like yesterday, the UCL calls to join the marches of 
April 23 in several cities. ---- A year after the first mass mobilization of 
lesbians, where are we? ---- The implementation of the law on PMA for lesbians 
and single women, which was the main objective of the demonstrators, was won last 
summer! Unsurprisingly, its implementation was not done with the necessary means. 
Consequences? An interminable wait, a sorting out of requests, closed doors as 
witnessed by many lesbians. Racialized lesbians denounce the discrimination to 
which they are subjected: no pairing, no gamettes, waiting times multiplied by 
two, no measures taken by the State to break the restrictions. Trans people 
remain excluded from this right.

The extreme right a mortal danger for lesbians.
We no longer have time for the extreme right and its fascist militias are at the 
gates of power. The time has come to organize and strengthen our 
counter-powers[1]. We know that the rise of the extreme right and reactionary 
themes is giving way to an outbreak of LGBTIphobia and its attacks. Last year 80 
fascists attacked the Dyke's march in Lyon in the city center.

The far right is the mortal enemy of lesbians and LGBTI people. Fachos on all 
sides, they are attacking the rights of sexual minorities to better protect those 
who continue to get rich. Faced with danger, sexual minorities cannot dismiss the 
danger Le Pen and Macron back to back. Our message: not a voice for the extreme 
right!

Faced with the extreme right, an imperative: to unite
The extreme right spreads a national novel, at the heart of it: a fantasized 
identity. "To be French" would be to be white, heterosexual, of Christian 
culture. Minorities, especially sexual ones, are excluded from this identity, 
from this "national body". Alternately suspected (the so-called "LGBT 
conspiracy"), intimidated, abused, LGBTI people find themselves singled out by 
this nationalist logic. For racialized lesbians, the rejection of the national 
body is all the more virulent.

Because the hatred against LGBTI minorities has grown stronger, because it is 
fueled by far-right groups, political and religious fascists in their strategy to 
conquer power, more than ever let us return to the path of struggle: let's 
organize the social response which involves the anti-fascist struggle. Organize 
popular self-defense.

Let's refuse their world, let's build ours.
Difficulty finding accommodation, difficulty making ends meet, filling the 
fridge, and for many the closet as a bonus, suffering and isolation. In this 
context of lasting crisis, the bourgeoisie has only one idea in mind: to maintain 
its profits at all costs. We will stand up because it is in the struggle of the 
oppressed that our hopes lie. Unity is to be strengthened between our 
counter-powers, against the far right and the patriarchy which is the matrix of 
LGBTIphobia

We want to live without domination, to live free in a society free from 
exploitation, where social equality would be ensured by the collective management 
of our needs and means of production, where the emancipation of each would be 
everyone's business. · your both in his sexual orientation and in his life 
choices, where solidarity would be the basis of society. This is called 
libertarian communism.

The Libertarian Communist Union, April 21, 2022.

To validate

[1]Counter-power: structure with which the oppressed establish themselves to 
fight against the exploitation of which they and they are victims, for example 
family planning, struggle unions, "intra-community " health and support 
associations".

https://www.unioncommunistelibertaire.org/?Face-au-peril-fasciste-au-patriarcat-et-a-la-lesbophobie-que-vive-la-visibilite
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