This Wednesday, May 17 will be the World Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia. A day that is still just as important, year after year, to fight against a scourge that still wreaks so much havoc. Before this day, actions were carried out everywhere in France. This was particularly the case this weekend, with the wearing of an armband and rainbow flocked jerseys for all Ligue 1 players.
However, like last year, some players from certain clubs, such as Zakaria Aboukhlal from Toulouse and Mostafa Mohamed from FC Nantes, refused to wear it and should be sanctioned by their teams. A refusal that Jean-Baptise Marteau does not understand. “homophobia is a crime, it’s a year in prison, 45,000 euros fine in the law”lamented the journalist, this Monday, May 15 on the set of “C to You”. The joker of the JT of France 2 and Thomas Sotto on “Telematin”, was indeed the guest of Anne-Elisabeth Lemoine, on the eve of the broadcast of the documentary “Gays in France”.
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Jean-Baptiste Marteau and the time he unpacked everything to his mother
A documentary co-written by Vincent Dedienne and Aurélia Perreau, in which the journalist testifies. He took advantage of his appearance in the daily life of France 5 to talk about his own experience and the moment he came out to his mother. “I chose to do it with my mother, which is usually the case, most people would rather tell their mother than their father”he noted at first.
Jean-Baptiste Marteau acknowledges that it is not “never an easy time”. “Me, she had a very strong reaction saying, ‘I knew it!'”he recalled, remembering the reaction of his mother before continuing: “We were in a restaurant and she was almost screaming ! But you have to understand that at that moment it’s not rejection at all”.
Indeed, for the journalist, at that time, his mother “says to herself ‘I lived in an environment with a lot of friends who were gay, in a fashion environment’. She saw people who were socially isolated, rejected, insulted, who had no rights and she was scared”. “Most parents, when we come out to them, they are afraid for their child”he adds before concluding: “They don’t want their daughter or their son to have that life, that marginalized life, and so the first reaction is fear. Then, actually afterwards, it relaxes!”.
RF