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Seventeen LGBT associations demanded, this Friday, July 21, the resignation of four government ministers: Caroline Cayeux, Gérald Darmanin, Sébastien Lecornu and Christophe Béchu.
The towel is burning between LGBT associations and four members of the government. Caroline Cayeux, Gérald Darmanin, Sébastien Lecornu and Christophe Béchu were accused by 17 associations of having made homophobic remarks and the latter demanded their imminent departure from the government through a press release jointly written on July 21.
At the heart of a controversy after having maintained his remarks on homosexual marriage, this Wednesday, July 13, the Minister of Territorial Communities, Caroline Cayeux is on an ejection seat. For several days, some members of the government have tried to defend it.
While traveling in Calvados, on Friday July 15, the Prime Minister, Elisabeth Borne, returned to the remarks made by the Minister of Territorial Communities on homosexual people. She felt that things were “now clear” after the apologies presented by Caroline Cayeux in the columns of Parisian. But these excuses did not convince 17 LGBT associations which declared, in a joint press release, that they were waiting for the resignation of the minister.
The explanations of Elisabeth Borne during her trip to Calvados failed to make people forget the controversy. “I think she had the opportunity to explain herself in an interview to apologize to people who may have been offended, to reaffirm that she totally shared the progressive values that the president carries, that I carry and that carries my government,” said Elisabeth Borne. “She will be very vigilant in the future about the support that can be given to all associations that fight against discrimination, and in particular against homophobia,” added the Prime Minister.
Unacceptable excuses
To these declarations, the 17 associations replied: “No, Madam Prime Minister, it is not acceptable that nearly 10 years after the passing of a law opening a right to all, a member of the government can, in peace, repeat deeply discriminatory remarks”.
#CayeuxResignation : 17 associations (including @InterLGBTThe Seropots and @CentreLGBTParis) LGBTQIA+ of the fight against discrimination, “these people”, refuse the apologies of @carolinecayeux and ask to @Elisabeth_Borne the resignation of LGBTphobic members of the government pic.twitter.com/GT0EhzT9MD
— The Seropotes (@seropotes) July 22, 2022
In this press release sent by Élisabeth Borne and published on the Twitter account of Les Séropotes, it was denounced “the deleterious consequences that the comments made by Madame Cayeux have and will have in the coming weeks”. According to the press release, the associations received on July 12 an almost uninterrupted stream of messages of hatred or relativism of everyday homophobia. Threats which have been addressed, according to them, by the proponents of the “demonstration for all” and other far-right groups.
“We do not accept Madame Cayeux’s apology just as we do not accept the eloquent silence of your ministers Christophe Béchu (who, in 2016, had elaborate sexual health promotion posters removed by Santé Publique France, which depicted men and women kissing each other, describing them as provocation”, can we read in this press release. The associations also condemned the remarks of Sébastien Lecornu, who declared that gay communitarianism exasperated him as much as homophobia , and those of Gérald Darmanin who, as mayor of Tourcoing, had reported in 2013 that he would not celebrate marriages between two women and two men.They officially demanded the resignation of Caroline Cayeux, Christophe Béchu, Sébastien Lecornu or Gerald Darmanin.
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