Participating this year in UNIQUES, the festival of equality that aims to make inclusion topics concrete and accessible to everyone, the comedian Noam Sinseau answered our questions about representation and inclusion of LGBT+ people.
What message would you like to address to a young LGBT person who feels they don’t have a place?
Noam Sinseau: There are people who feel at home while drifting in sandals and socks and fluorescent clothing. Baby, if they are in their place, you are in your seat.
What makes you the most proud today?
To create spaces, performances, and cultural objects that affirm the existence of queer people of color and where they feel safe and understood.
What do you think is the greatest inequality that still affects LGBT people?
All of them. LGBTQIA+ people do not experience the same lived realities depending on whether they are L, G, B, T, or Q, I, A or more. And I think that seeing them as a single unified bloc is the community’s greatest tragedy.
What makes us feel included, in a school, a company, in society?
Simply being listened to. Our lived experiences have always been shouted by us but rarely heard. For us to feel included, we must be listened to, heard.
What makes you optimistic about the future?
The new generation, even more awake, even more rebellious. I’m afraid of getting canceled everyday and that’s a good sign. We are in an era of questioning everything, of reexamining concepts, of their evolutions and I love that. Nothing is fixed, everything evolves and thank God (Beyoncé)!
>> The UNIQUES festival, in which têtu· is a partner, will take place on September 12 at the Cité du cinéma, in Saint-Denis. Free admission.
