France be 14th untry to legalize gay marriage

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• FIRST GAY MARRIAGE CELEBRATED FRANCE
• FRANCE TO LEGALISE GAY MARRIAGE 2013
• GAY MARRIAGE IS PROTTED FRANCE
• FRANCE BE 14TH UNTRY TO LEGALIZE GAY MARRIAGE
• THE FRENCH DEBATE GAY MARRIAGE, THEIR FASHN

FIRST GAY MARRIAGE CELEBRATED FRANCE

France has bee the 14th untry to legalise same-sex marriage, phg through François Hollan's flagship social change after months of street protts, polil slangg match and a rise homophobic 331 vot for and 225 vot agast, there were chants of "Equaly. More than 172 hours of heated bate the assembly and the senate meant the bill was one of the most bated recent history, wh fur clash and a near fist-fight between rightwg MP warned the ernment was "killg children" by allowg same-sex married upl to adopt and one senator warned gay marriage would open the way to people beg able to marry animals or objects. MPs favour of the bill received ath threats, skheads attacked a gay bar Lille, and gay rights groups reported a rise homophobic the vote, the speaker of the assembly orred the expulsn of noisy protters om the public gallery, llg them "enemi of mocracy" vote mak France the nth untry Europe to legalise same-sex marriage and the first ceremoni uld take place this right has appealed to France's nstutnal uncil prott at the law, but is unlikely to succeed overturng vote for one of Hollan's major electoral pledg is a posive pot for the Socialist print at a time when his populary is at rerd lows as unemployment ris and the ernment stggl to nta the sndal of s budget mister's secret Swiss bank the law leav key issu on fay rights unanswered.

Dpe support for the reform Montpellier, which boasts of beg France's most gay-iendly town, officials scrapped plans to broadst the weddg live on a giant TV screen and stead beamed live onle to the cy's webse. "Love each other, love , love one another, bee 's important, " said Aut om a balny to a crowd of hundreds of well-wishers outsi the cy hall, addg the next step would be a law allowg gay upl to adopt children.

FRANCE TO LEGALISE GAY MARRIAGE 2013

Backed by a slim majory of French and feted by gay men and lbians when me to force this month, a law makg France the 14th untry to allow same-sex marriage has triggered street protts by nservativ, Catholics and extreme right-wgers. " Frigi Barjot, a pk-clad edian who leads the anti-gay marriage movement, has urged her supporters to stay away om Wednday's weddg and exprsed ncern at right-wgers who have hurled bricks, bottl and firecrackers durg march.

Earlier, French Interr Mister Manuel Valls pledged to toughen penalti for homophobic behavr, cg an crease the number of threats agast gay people on onle foms. "It's likely that we'll have to harn penalti for homophobic speech and behavr by law.

GAY MARRIAGE IS PROTTED FRANCE

" Homosexualy, still a crime some 78 untri, has been legal France sce the Revolutn, and the age of nsent was lowered to that of heterosexual relatns 1981. Aut, 40, and Boile, 29, were the first gay uple to apply to marry as Print Hollan was phg through the law, which grants equal marriage and adoptn rights that go beyond existg l for civil partnerships.

Aut proposed by phong Boile at work September ont of cy officials who had jt announced that Montpellier would host the first gay weddg. Sce then, ralli that are partly fuelled by anger at the ernment over other issu like the enomy appear to have erod support for the gay marriage law; now stands at 53 percent, wh 47 percent opposed, reflectg a ep natnal divisn, particularly over the adoptn rights clus.

Last week, one opponent of gay marriage shot himself ad at the altar of Paris's Notre Dame thedral and on Sunday hundreds of thoands marched the pal to mand the law's repeal.

FRANCE BE 14TH UNTRY TO LEGALIZE GAY MARRIAGE

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France's new Socialist ernment will pass a law legalisg gay marriage and grantg gay upl the same rights as any married uple 2013, the untry's junr mister for fay said Friday. Print Franis Hollan, who took office last month, had pledged to legalise gay marriage and adoptn durg his electn mpaign but had given no Hollan’s Socialists won an absolute majory parliamentary electns two weeks ago, the nservative UMP party, which had opposed the measure unr former print Nilas Sarkozy, n do ltle to stop .

THE FRENCH DEBATE GAY MARRIAGE, THEIR FASHN

"A law grantg full marriage stat to gay upl would brg France, which currently provis only for same-sex civil unns, to le wh fellow EU members Denmark, Portugal, Spa, Belgium, the Netherlands and would also mark a profound change French society, where more than two-thirds of people still scribe themselv as Roman Catholic, acrdg to a 2010 survey by pollster Ifop. However, fewer and fewer of them adhere to strict Roman Catholic teachgs on sexual issu or back the Vatin’s nmnatn of homosexualy.

A majory also favour allowg gay upl to adopt children. Neverthels, gay rights advot say homosexualy remas taboo many areas of public life. Media tend to e phemisms such as "long-term bachelor" to ht that someone is gay.

"Today, ’s still very difficult to put a name on thgs, as if sayg public that someone was homosexual was to vlate a taboo, " a group of gay profsnals wrote an opn piece the newspaper Le Mon on Friday, the eve of a Gay Pri march Paris.