ABSTRACT
This chapter aims to assess the extent to which the adoption of same-sex marriage has impacted the demands and strategies of the French LGBT movement since 2013. First, I show how the visibility of LGBT issues in the French public sphere has been deeply impacted by the heated social and political context in which the debate over same-sex marriage took place. Second, I explain how, following the passage of the law, mainstream LGBT organizations were criticized by more radical fringes of the movement for focusing solely on marriage to the detriment of other issues. Despite this, after 2013 some of these issues, including trans rights and reproductive rights, could finally emerge in the political sphere. Finally, I describe seemingly new practices that arose among the French LGBT movement in the recent years and show that these practices actually draw on feminist and anticapitalist forms of mobilization and aim to build an intersectional framework.
