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> Faites suivre le plus possible!
> Merci d'avance!!!!
> mhbourcier/pour Archilesb!
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> Stop the exclusion of lesbians from the future
> Archive of Homosexuality in
> Paris!
>
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> TAKE ACTION! TAKE ACTION! TAKE ACTION!
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>
>
> Let Your Voice Be Heard! End the Exclusion of
> Lesbians from Public Projects
> in Paris!
>
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> The City Council of Paris has provided a one-year
> grant of $100,000 to
> launch a project proposed by Jean Le Bitoux and
> Christopher Miles to create
> an Archive of Homosexuality in Paris. The funding
> will support the
> preparatory stage of the project and involve
> research, the development of
> guidelines, consultation with "experts" and the
> selection of a steering
> committee.
>
>
> On several occasions, the lesbian group ARCHILESB!
> has asked the various
> responsible parties (the designers of the project as
> well as the Paris City
> Council) to correct the omission of lesbians from
> the project but our
> claims have not been heard.
>
> Today and without delay:
>
> 1. We ask that the scientific and political content
> of the project be
> entirely reviewed:
>
> <sum> We ask this because the project produces
> exclusion within the LGBT
> community: it is gay-male-centered to the detriment
> of lesbians,
> transsexual and transgender people. Neither the
> Paris City Council nor the
> French-Inter-Pride Organization should support a
> project that claims that
> "during a first period, the archival resources will
> concern mostly male
> homosexuality for historical reasons." This
> assumption is not only
> politically unfair but also historically inaccurate.
> The designers of the
> project seem to be unaware of the history of the
> social movements and
> politics of France which are rooted in the lesbian
> and feminist culture.
> The project's definition of "homosexual history",
> which prefigures its
> archival methods and futures resources, is
> gay-male-centered. It
> underestimates the contribution of lesbians to the
> LGBT social political
> history and promotes a long-lasting discrimination.
>
>
> <sum> The expected aims and functions of the archive
> of homosexuality must
> be opened to reflection and discussion within the
> LGBT community: the
> specificity of the Lesbian Archives, the possibility
> of a "living archive"
> as oppose to a passive and historical vision of the
> future archive, the
> question of the relationship of a "minority archive"
> to the State
> institutions and powers, its relationship to AIDS
> archives, etc. are just
> some of the issues that need to be addressed.
>
> 2. The Archive Project must be politically
> representative of the
> differences within the LGBT community. It must
> therefore respect current
> European laws on gender and sexual equality.
>
> <sum> Lesbians and their representative
> organizations must be actively
> integrated within the archive's steering committee.
> It is unacceptable that
> out of 59 project participants only 5 are women!
>
> <sum> The launching of the preparatory phase of the
> project must be open
> and clear, and must integrate lesbians in both
> research and management
> positions.
>
> ARCHILESB! works together with VIGITRANS to end the
> discrimination of
> transsexual and transgender people in the archive
> project.
>
> Make sure your voice is heard! Help end lesbian,
> transsexual and
> transgender discrimination! SIGN NOW!
> SEND THIS MESSAGE to mhbourcier@??? with your
> name, country, and
> political or associative affiliation.
>
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