Amphithéâtre Guillaume Budé, Site Marcelin Berthelot
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Abstract

The situation of the LGBTIQ+ collective is similar in different countries. The violence, both symbolic and physical, suffered by this group is due to a binary sex-gender patriarchal system that limits its existence as a subject in its own right. The documentary Le Printemps rose reflects the loneliness and exile that result from this situation, suggesting that large cities (and a few European countries) offer a safe haven to live with a certain degree of freedom. The constitution of the subject is complicated in this situation, since recognition is inhibited in a society that is intolerant of sexual diversity. This is why the function of the community is instituted as a key element in the survival of these people, since the security provided by these spaces is fundamental to the free expression of sexuality, a key dimension of the human experience. But can you think of the idea of community when you've fled to a big city or to another country where, in the end, equality doesn't exist either ? To the situation of a refugee based on sexual orientation is added the condition of a migrant, without the usual support networks of the place of origin, and a racialization that makes it more difficult to live with all the fullness desired.

Mario de la Torre Espinosa

Mario de la Torre Espinosa

Documentary filmmaker and professor of literary theory and comparative literature at the University of Granada. His research focuses on literary comparatism and gender, film and theater studies.

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Mario de la Torre Espinosa

documentary filmmaker, professor of literary theory and comparative literature at the University of Granada