The many lours of marriage: Gay Marriage France an update on the current suatn on gay marriage France and Monique Tlove's perspective
Contents:
- TEN YEARS OF GAY MARRIAGE FRANCE: SAME-SEX UPL REFLECT ON A OF CHANGE
- 08 MAR 2013 FRANCE EMBRAC GAY MARRIAGE
- FRANCE SE 7,000 GAY MARRIAG LAST YEAR
- FRANCE'S GAY MARRIAGE FIGHT
- FIRST GAY MARRIAGE CELEBRATED FRANCE
- GAY MARRIAGE CLARED LEGAL ACROSS THE US HISTORIC SUPREME URT LG
- NAMIBIAN MPS BACK ANTI-GAY LAW SPE SUPREME COURT LG
- FRANCE’S GAYS ARE ASSIATG. WHAT COM NEXT?
- THE MANY LOURS OF MARRIAGE: GAY MARRIAGE FRANCE
TEN YEARS OF GAY MARRIAGE FRANCE: SAME-SEX UPL REFLECT ON A OF CHANGE
May 17 is the Internatnal Day Agast Homophobia, Biphobia and Transphobia. This Wednday also marks exactly 10 years sce gay marriage beme legal France. Sce then, around 7,000 such marriag… * gay marriages in france 2015 *
The anti-gay marriage movement, Manif Pour To (or Prott For All), mounted a fierce mpaign agast the measure, at one pot claimg to have drawn 1. This is more than before the adoptn of same-sex marriage when Insee unted an average of 5, 762 civil unns of homosexual upl per year (between 1999 and 2012). Persistent difficulti startg a fay The legalizatn of same-sex marriage has ma possible for married homosexual upl to adopt a child, whereas civil unns did not allow them to do so.
08 MAR 2013 FRANCE EMBRAC GAY MARRIAGE
About 7,000 same-sex upl tied the knot France last year after gay marriage was legalised May, the natnal statistics agency said Tuday. * gay marriages in france 2015 *
But this remas limed: Sce 2013, the Associatn of Gay and Lbian Parents (APGL) timat, based on s own cens and the rults of a number of surveys, that only 200 same-sex parentg fai have succeed adoptg (wards of the Natn and children born abroad clud).
Try for ee This figure is nsistent wh that of a report by the French Mistry of Jtice, which unted, for the year 2018, only eighteen plenary adoptns by homosexual upl. Nilas Faget, a spokperson for the APGL, told Le Mon that homosexual upl faced difficulti foundg a fay: The procs is lengthy and adoptn is still forbidn some untri. Sce the adoptn of a bethics law 2021, and the openg of medilly assisted procreatn to homosexual upl, the procre is simplified.
This is the se other "Catholic" untri like Spa and Portugal, which have recently adopted gay marriage.
FRANCE SE 7,000 GAY MARRIAG LAST YEAR
Opponents of gay marriage France have waged a more effective mpaign than many expected but may be fightg a losg battle, the BBC's Hugh Schofield reports. * gay marriages in france 2015 *
Ined the absence of long-lastg ntroversy over the issue Spa and Portugal is often adduced as an argument by supporters of gay marriage France. However - as a study by the liberal French thk-tank the Thomas More Foundatn has noted - Spa and Portugal people who oppose gay marriage n ntue to get married church, ntent wh the feelg that "their" marriage has nothg to do wh the civil one anised by the state and now open to gay people.
Even wh France’s unique legal approach to marriage ntracts, opn polls show that approximately 55 to 60 percent of French people support gay marriage.
FRANCE'S GAY MARRIAGE FIGHT
Sort through the more than 30 jurisdictns that have enacted laws allowg gays and lbians to marry. * gay marriages in france 2015 *
Although this support drops somewhat for gay adoptn, the legislatn supportg gay adoptn remaed as part of the bill approved by the Assembly.
FIRST GAY MARRIAGE CELEBRATED FRANCE
Marchers filed through the French pal on Sunday to prott agast Print Franis Hollan's plan to legalize gay marriage and adoptn. * gay marriages in france 2015 *
About 7, 000 same-sex upl tied the knot France last year after gay marriage was legalised May, the natnal statistics agency said Tuday. France legalised same-sex marriage after months of tense and sometim vlent protts, keepg wh an electn pledge by Socialist Print François Hollan, who faced a huge backlash om the right and the powerful Catholic unns ma up around three percent of all marriag registered France 2013, France’s Insee statistics agency out of every five gay marriag volved male upl, average age at which gay men got married was 50, while was 43 for women. 3 years mixed marriag, Insee first gay marriage France was held on May 29 the southern cy of Montpellier, which has a gay-iendly reputatn.
GAY MARRIAGE CLARED LEGAL ACROSS THE US HISTORIC SUPREME URT LG
Contued opposnBut many die-hard nservativ have ntued to oppose the mayors argue that the lack of an optn not to perform gay marriag vlat the French nstutn, which stipulat that eedom of nscience is a fundamental human right. Several have refed to nduct gay marriag on the grounds go agast their beliefs, but the Constutnal Council, France's top urt, has led they nnot do this.
NAMIBIAN MPS BACK ANTI-GAY LAW SPE SUPREME COURT LG
Two weeks ago, French opponents of gay marriage and adoptn staged one of the biggt monstratns of popular feelg that the untry has seen 340, 000 people, acrdg to police, marched through central Paris to oppose a ernment bill that go before the Natnal Assembly on Tuday.
FRANCE’S GAYS ARE ASSIATG. WHAT COM NEXT?
Supporters of gay marriage have staged their own shows of strength, and believe they have public opn on their si. This weekend some 125, 000 rallied Paris, police is the sle of the "manif pour to", agast gay marriage and adoptn, that took many outsi observers by surprise. But there are a uple of other factors pchFirst, the antis have n an telligent and media-savvy the start they regnised the dangers of beg seen as the twchg arm of reactnary they have ma sure they nstute a broad-based "cizens" movement, wh no formal lks to church or ptn, Observers have been surprised that so many people me out public opposn to gay marriageAnd their spokwoman - a performer who go by the psdonym Frigi Barjot - opponents of gay marriage have found a perfect antidote to charg that they are superannuated bigots.
A 50-year-old, blon-haired extrovert who scrib herself as an "anarchist of love", Barjot has bee a natnal figure recent weeks, wh nstant appearanc on rad and tak re at every terview to state that her arguments are not directed at gay people, but at the proposed law, as amed.
THE MANY LOURS OF MARRIAGE: GAY MARRIAGE FRANCE
"If what was on offer were a law that further enshred rights for gay upl, that enriched their unns, and got rid of the discrimatns and jtic that undoubtedly still exist - then I would support , " she says. Everybody affectedThe other reason why gay marriage has provoked such a powerful bate France has to do wh the nature of the untry's is practilly unique Europe makg obligatory, for upl who marry, to do so a civil ceremony, wh potential jail terms for prits who nduct a relig ceremony other untri, prits, rabbis or imams who rry out weddgs are also actg as civil officials, and the marriage nducted church, synagogue or mosque is duly registered ptn, "We read the Bible gaily": gay marriage supporters at a march StrasbourgThis is the se other "Catholic" untri like Spa and Portugal, which have recently adopted gay marriage.
However - as a study by the liberal French thk-tank the Thomas More Foundatn has noted - Spa and Portugal people who oppose gay marriage n ntue to get married church, ntent wh the feelg that "their" marriage has nothg to do wh the civil one anised by the state and now open to gay France, there n be no such separatn.