En France, le premier mariage gay a été célébré en 1681

Contents:

• FIRST GAY MARRIAGE CELEBRATED FRANCE
• MARIAGE GAY EN FRANCE : TOUT L S PRATIQU
• 1ST GAY MARRIAGE TAK PLACE FRANCE
• PREMIER MARIAGE GAY : POURQUOI VCENT ET BNO ?
• EN FRANCE, LE PREMIER MARIAGE GAY A éTé CéLéBRé EN 1681
• THE MANY LOURS OF MARRIAGE: GAY MARRIAGE FRANCE

FIRST GAY MARRIAGE CELEBRATED FRANCE

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.

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.

MARIAGE GAY EN FRANCE : TOUT L S PRATIQU

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. " 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.

1ST GAY MARRIAGE TAK PLACE FRANCE

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.

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PREMIER MARIAGE GAY : POURQUOI VCENT ET BNO ?

Qui porte le nom dans un mariage homosexuel?

Le 17 mai 2013, la loi a évolué en favr du mariage pour to et permet jourd'hui x personn homosexuell se marier civilement, même tre que n'importe quel uple. La France t le 9ème pays ropéen à avoir torisé le mariage homosexuel et le 14ème dans le mon. Le premier mariage gay en France a li le 29 mai 2013 à Montpellier.

Pt-on aniser un mariage homosexuel à l'église? En 2015, l'Eglise prottante unie France (EPUdF) a adopté la possibilé bénir l mariag homosexuels, sans pour tant l'imposer x pastrs qui ne seraient pas favorabl à cette décisn. In a historic ceremony broadst live on French televisn, the first gay uple to marry France said "oui, " then sealed the al wh a lengthy and very public kiss.

EN FRANCE, LE PREMIER MARIAGE GAY A éTé CéLéBRé EN 1681

Hundreds more flocked to the square outsi the buildg as Vcent Aut, 40, and his 30-year-old partner, Bno Boile, were polilly charged ceremony was held unr tight police surveillance — a stark remr of the months of bisg opposn to the new gay marriage law that French lawmakers passed earlier this gas firedAlthough the marriage self went undispted, outsi the cy hall was not trouble-ee. We are very pleased and honored, " said is not clear yet when the first gay adoptn will take of the marriage will not be weled every rner of France.

Jt last Sunday, tens of thoands of people protted fiercely Paris agast the new gay marriage law, monstratns that end wh rt police shootg tear gas.

THE MANY LOURS OF MARRIAGE: GAY MARRIAGE FRANCE

A plan to legalize same-sex marriage and allow gay upl to adopt was a liberal rnerstone of Socialist Franis Hollan's electn manifto last year. The law beme a polil hot potato that exposed bter divisns between urban France, where homosexualy is wily accepted, and the Catholic heartland where nservative attus hold sway.

Demonstratns agast the gay marriage law have often spilled to Sunday's prott the French pal, several hundred protters clashed wh police, throwg bottl and chasg journalists.

Interr Mister Manuel Valls said police arrted some 100 far-right police timated that 150, 000 people took part the monstratn but march anizers claimed on their Twter acunt that more than a ln people the same time Sunday, on the shor of the Mederranean, the prtig 66th Cann Film Ftival gave the Palme d'Or, s top honor, to Blue is the Warmt Color: The Life of Ale, a graphic French film about a tenr, sensual lbian is the 14th untry so far — and the biggt polil and enomic weight — to regnize gay marriage.