Ten years of marriage for everyone: 3 podcasts to measure progress

On April 23, 2013, the National Assembly adopted the so-called Taubira law (although Law No. her, this nickname) on marriage for all, which authorizes same-sex couples to marry, like heterosexuals. But before repairing homophobic inequality, the ravages of Manif pour tous had time to leave an indelible mark on generations of LGBTI people, traumatized by their hate speech.

Ten years after its adoption in second reading on 23 April 2013 in the National Assembly, with 331 votes in favor and 225 against, after a long parliamentary battle, the law on marriage for all then promulgated on 17 May therefore leaves many traces in consciences, how it feels inside many podcasts that allow you to get an idea of ​​its concrete consequences on the lives of LGBTI+ or otherwise people, their way of forming a couple and above all of forming a family. Ten years later, what remains of our loves?

“A father, a mother” by Sixtine Lys

Children’s rights have often been exploited by the homophobes of La Manif pour tous to oppose the opening of marriage to same-sex couples, arguing that it was absolutely necessary to have ” a dad, a mom (no offense to single parent families) to keep the company going. By twisting this binary slogan to make it the title of her podcast, journalist Sixtine Lys presents two parents of a new kind: Florent, who is gay and is approaching forty, and Pascale, who gave birth at the age of 49 to a child born of their friendship 8 March 2021. The documentary podcast “A father, a mother” immerses us, in ten episodes of about 30 minutes each, in the immersion in their daily life towards parenthood: their fertility journey, their PMA, their pregnancy and their co-parenting. Something to illustrate, if need be, that you can create a family other than being a cisgender man and woman, in a monogamous heterosexual couple. Away from gender norms and the inequalities that often accompany them, you can raise a child with as much love, if not more.

“Quouïr” by Rozenn Le Carboulec

After two first seasons dedicated respectively to coming out and homoparenthood, Rozenn Le Carboulec’s podcast “Quouïr” gives the audience Augustin, 19 years old, during its 3rd season entitled “In the name of the son”. This it seems a “survivor” of La Manif pour tous, because his parents took him, from the age of 12, to homophobic rallies of this movement which opposes the opening of marriage and adoption by same-sex couples. Across six episodes, the now openly queer teenager deciphers the impacts about his Catholic, homophobic and heteronormative upbringing, about his life, his gender and his sexuality. We also hear his mother and sisters, but above all other LGBTI+ people who talk about the devastation of the homophobic movement which has proclaimed itself a “family union” since 2023.

“Coming out” by Elise Goldfarb and Julia Layani

There is no right way to come out. Truth be told, there are as many ways to do this as there are trans people. This is what we can tell ourselves by listening to every personality invited to Elise Goldfarb and Julia Layani’s “Coming out” podcast (recently adapted into a book). Each episode gives the floor to a person from the LGBTI+ community to tell how she came to know her gender and/or sexual identity, how she announced it to those around her, how she learned to live with it, etc. Many testimonies return precisely to how much La Manif pour tous and the endless debates on the themes of marriage, adoption and PMA have traumatized generations of LGBTI+ people.

10 years of marriage for everyone in 3 digits

According to INSEE, between 2013 and 2022, more than 70,000 homosexual unions were celebrated. Of which 7,300 since the year of promulgation, and a boom of 10,500 in 2014, before reaching a stabilization of about 6,500 unions a year since then. Note that lesbians marry more than gays now: 2021 saw 3550 marriages between women against 2856 between men. Long live the brides!