Evgenia Giakoumopoulou is a human rights expert, lesbian activist and a spokesperson for the EuroCentralAsian Lesbian* Community (EL*C) - a collective of lesbian, queer, bi and trans women advocating for lesbian rights in Europe and Central Asia

Waving the flag of the presumably perfect heterosexual nuclear family, a herd of homophobes clad in gender-conforming pink and blue hoodies is getting ready to march. The very same ones who invaded the streets and screens of France in 2012-13, when marriage equality for LGBT+ people was being debated.

Only this time the movement is running out of steam. Yet some journalists have been recycling images in anticipation, and irresponsibly blowing on the embers of the 2013 fiasco, hoping to revive the media frenzy. Why now? Because of what did not happen in 2013.

While the law on marriage equality and adoption was passed, the government yielded on one point – the reproductive rights of same-sex parents and the recognition of children born within same-sex households. More specifically, it did not extend the right to same-sex parents to opt for in-vitro fertilisation (IVF) treatment, barring single women and lesbian couples from using methods commonly used for straight infertile married pairs.

Politically speaking, it simply did not cost much to sacrifice the rights of women, and even less so of lesbians. It was an easy bargain in our structurally sexist, misogynist and lesbophobic society. Read more via Openly