Marie-Josèphe Devillers

Marie-Josèphe Devillers, now retired, was an IT consultant. Despite a very busy professional career, she managed to lead lesbian feminist activism.

From 1992 onwards, she was involved in the organisation of the international lesbian-only festival "Quand les lesbiennes se font du cinéma" in Paris, then in the setting up of cultural and festive events to emphasise the position of lesbians in the LGBT Pride March, as well as in the creation of a solidarity fund to act against lesbophobic violence and finally, in 2013, in the organisation of the EuroLESBOPride in Marseille.

Confronted, as early as 2011, with the homosexual demand that to use surrogacy is a ‘right’ for gay men, she alerted feminist organisations about the need to counter this new trend among heterosexual people as well as gay men.

The creation of ICASM International Coalition for the Abolition of Surrogate Motherhood, which she co-founded and of which she is co-president, became the instrument of this fight.