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The violent repression by the Moscow police, a gay event on the eve of the World Day against Homophobia, said, according to our editorial, the difficult progress of the homosexual cause. And persistence, he says, suffering identity associated with this sexual orientation. 

Despite the mobilization, on the occasion of World Day against Homophobia, a part of the international community for the universal decriminalization of homosexuality, Russia, one of the "rich and industrialized G8 and hosted the 54th Eurovision competition, has shown throughout its archaic political and psychological-in violently suppressing the slave gay pride "in the center of the capital. It is a pity as such lack of solidarity of the singer and representative of France, Patricia Kaas. 

Even though 80 countries still criminalize the sexual orientation, still punishable by death by a handful of them, a lot of water has fortunately passed since the decision in 1974 by the American Psychiatric Association does most include homosexuality in the nosology of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM III). Decision extended in 1990 by the deletion of homosexuality from its list of mental diseases of WHO. First state in the world to authorize, on 1 October 1989, a "registered partnership" between homosexuals, Denmark has been largely followed by a number of Scandinavian countries but also Mediterranean like France or Spain. Already a pioneer in the field of adoption for homosexual couples, Sweden has voted by a very large majority, a law allowing gay civil marriage and religious. In the United States, Vermont became last April, the fourth U.S. state to legalize marriage between two persons of the same sex. The Democratic Governor of the State of New York, David Peterson, has already announced that it would support in the Assembly of the State a text similar to the one adopted in Vermont. In France, the Minister of Health Roselyne Bachelot just enter the High Authority of Health (HAS) to remove the transsexuality of the classification of mental illness. On 18 December, France and the Netherlands submitted on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly, a draft declaration on freedom of sexual orientation and gender identity. 

We will not fail to rejoice in this vast movement of social recognition. In a letter to an American mother in April 1935, Sigmund Freud already said this: "homosexuality is obviously not an advantage but there is nothing we do should be ashamed of, this is neither a vice nor a degradation and can not be described as a disease. " 

It has yet to recognize the persistence of difficulties in daily life which remains for many a suffering identity. The proliferation of venues for the gay community probably does not change anything. These places, whatever the purposes of sexual or non-characteristic, even the proper indicator of ill-being that is. The sociopsychanalyste Gérard Mendel had good points in this illusion, for example, that "the thousands of participants into a trance rave party and the tens of thousands of spectators at a football match ... looking to unload, a moment of individual identity too heavy to wear with its conflicts and contradictions. " The group in which the young gay seeks to integrate aims to eliminate a form of wandering and solitude that characterizes this orientation. This solitude again by including it in the psyche "lack of sufficiently good relationship with the parent of the same sex, he has been absent, or not really weak in any case, this is what the subject has lived . It continues with the rejection of integration into the majority group identity, thus creating a marginalized group identification rules sometimes illusory: the pace of the activists involved homosexual, often very courageous in sociological and political contexts particularly bad, the concept of "gay ghetto" and its behavioral rules underlying-carries with it the risk of destroying the particularity of each and to establish another form of "persecution" : that, according to the philosopher Hannah Arendt, "to bring those who suffer to the point where this space eventually disappear leaving the spot and sharing a common suffering." 

In his article of 1907, Freud admits that "when there is a civilized sexual morality, individuals are hampered in their health and their ability to live and that, ultimately, the harm is brought to those individuals who sacrifice their imposed, to a degree as a direct threat to their cultural purpose. " The clinical and psychoanalytic practice in listening integrate this social and political dimension of symptoms even if the analytic community today return for a law to desire. Phenomenon from which civilization also be built. Rising demand for gays and lesbians to be recognize assumption institutionalized family model Heterosexual dominant-the marriage and the parentage-translate it this awareness?