Bilal Hassani elected LGBTI personality of the year

The singer Bilal Hbadani, representative of France during Eurovision 2019, won the LGBTI personality award of the year on Tuesday at the Out d'Or ceremony, which celebrates the visibility of LGBTI people in the public sphere .

"Winning a prize like that so early in my career is extremely impressive and very rewarding," said Bilal Hbadani, an openly gay, revealed a few months ago on social networks and regularly a victim of homophobia and racism.

"People are dying, it's serious that it must change," he told more than 600 people, including Secretary of State Marlene Schiappa, gathered at Cabaret Sauvage by the Lesbian, Gay Journalists Association , bis, trans and interbad (AJL).

For the past three years, AJL has been organizing this ceremony to "value journalists, artists and personalities who positively portray LGBTI people in the media".

"The golden out of the artistic brilliance" was given to the musician Léonie Pernet for her album "Crave" and to the series "Skam France" produced by France Television centered on a gay character.

Alexia Cerenys, the first trans rugbywoman to play in the first division of women's rugby in France has received the "Golden Out of Sport".

Several journalists and editorial staff were honored during the ceremony.

Coralie Moreau, journalist at France Bleu Normandie received the "Golden Outcome of the survey-reportage" for her subject "Adoption by homobaduals: + Only for atypical children + in Seine-Maritime".

"The Golden Out of Documentary" was presented to Perrine Kervran and Annabelle Brouard who produced the documentary "Transidentités, told by the trans" for France Culture.

The Lebanese media Raseef22 has received the Golden Out of "the foreign press" and the magazine L'Equipe that of "editorial engagement" especially for its one showing two players waterpolo gays kissing.

For the anniversary of the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall riots in New York that sparked activism for LGBT rights, Flavia Rando and Fred Sargeant, two US activists received a "Golden Out of Honor".

"When Stonewall arrived, a lot of people became activists," said Fred Sargeant.