First gay marriage celebrated France

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• TEN YEARS OF GAY MARRIAGE FRANCE: SAME-SEX UPL REFLECT ON A OF CHANGE
• LATVIA BE 7TH NATN TO BE LED BY AN OPENLY GAY HEAD OF STATE
• FIRST GAY MARRIAGE CELEBRATED FRANCE
• 08 MAR 2013 FRANCE EMBRAC GAY MARRIAGE
• TRANSLATNS FOR GAY MARRIAGE THE ENGLISH»FRENCH DICTNARYGAY MARRIAGE [ɡEɪˈMæRɪDʒ] N F SHOW SYNONYMS FOR GAY MARRIAGE. SEND FEEDBACKGAY MARRIAGEMARIAGE M HOMOSEXUEL PRELECT FOR EXPORT TO VOBULARY TRAER VIEW SELECTED VOBULARYTRANSLATNS FOR GAY MARRIAGE THE ENGLISH»FRENCH DICTNARY
• THE MANY LOURS OF MARRIAGE: GAY MARRIAGE FRANCE

TEN YEARS OF GAY MARRIAGE FRANCE: SAME-SEX UPL REFLECT ON A OF CHANGE

(Rters) - Marchers filed through the French pal on Sunday to prott agast Print Franis Hollan’s plan to legalize gay marriage and is a timele on marriage and the rights of homosexuals France. 1791 - Followg the French Revolutn, the penal is amend to crimalize homosexual acts.

1995 - Sat Nazaire be the first cy to allow homosexuals to register as ncub, a legal ncept allowg limed shared rights for unmarried upl livg together.

2001 - Bertrand Delanoe, a Socialist who was one of the first French policians to publicly clare his homosexualy, is elected mayor of Paris. Sce then, an openly gay man and an openly bisexual man serve as culture misters nservative natnal ernments. It matas that extendg those rights to gay upl would vlate the Uned Natns Conventn on the Rights of the Child, which France has signed.

LATVIA BE 7TH NATN TO BE LED BY AN OPENLY GAY HEAD OF STATE

2010 - Origally seen as a kd of gay unn, the PACS gradually morphs to “marriage le” for heterosexuals. 2012 - Franis Hollan clus gay marriage as one of 60 mpaign promis but do not figure highly bat for the printial electn May.

In November, the bet approv a draft law allowg same-sex marriage wh adoptn rights that will be prented to parliament on January 292013 - On January 13, Catholics, nservativ, Mlims, evangelils and homosexuals opposed to same-sex marriage march Paris the first major street prott agast Print Franis Hollan. May 17 is the Internatnal Day Agast Homophobia, Biphobia and Transphobia.

This Wednday also marks exactly 10 years sce gay marriage beme legal France. Latvia swore the first openly gay print of a Baltic natn Rkēvičs, who sce 2011 was the untry’s foreign mister, was elected by Parliament May after Print Egils Levs did not seek re-electn. ”Rkēvičs “proudly” announced he is gay on Twter November 2014, though the untry, a former Soviet republic, is not pecially LGBTQ-clive.

FIRST GAY MARRIAGE CELEBRATED FRANCE

” He said he knew there would be “mega hysteria, ” but he end wh the hashtag “#Proudtobegay. ”He is one of jt a few openly gay heads of state the world.

She is thought to be the first openly gay prime mister the was an active unnist her nearly 10 years workg as a flight attendant, acrdg to the Council of Women World Lears, a work of female heads of state. After the accatn, he said, he was chased down the street by reporters, one of whom yelled, “Yet they say you’re a homosexual! ”Xavier Bettel Prime Mister of Luxembourg (2013-prent)Luxembourg Prime Mister Xavier Bettel at a news nference Belgra, Serbia, on July Vojovic / APBettel was first elected prime mister of Luxembourg 2013, and 2018 he beme the first openly gay prime mister the world to be re-elected for a send marriage beme legal Luxembourg 2015, and the same year Bettel beme the first servg European Unn lear to marry a same-sex partner, the BBC recently cricized a Hungarian law that bans school tnal materials and TV shows for people unr 18 that are emed to promote LGBTQ ntent, Rters reported.

“To be natnally blamed, to be nsired as not normal, to be nsired as a danger for young people — ’s not realizg that beg gay is not a choice, ” Bettel said, acrdg to Rters. Gay, lbian and bisexual people n serve the ary, but transgenr people nnot.

08 MAR 2013 FRANCE EMBRAC GAY MARRIAGE

“Hopefully this will blow over three or four days, and then I won’t be known as the gay mister, ” she told The Associated Prs at the Varadkar Prime Mister of Ireland (2017-20, 2022-prent)Irish Prime Mister Leo Varadkar Bssels on June 30. Ludovic Mar / AFP - Getty Imag fileVaradkar beme Ireland’s first openly gay Taoiseach, or prime mister, 2017 and served until 2020. 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.

TRANSLATNS FOR GAY MARRIAGE THE ENGLISH»FRENCH DICTNARYGAY MARRIAGE [ɡEɪˈMæRɪDʒ] N F SHOW SYNONYMS FOR GAY MARRIAGE. SEND FEEDBACKGAY MARRIAGEMARIAGE M HOMOSEXUEL PRELECT FOR EXPORT TO VOBULARY TRAER VIEW SELECTED VOBULARYTRANSLATNS FOR GAY MARRIAGE THE ENGLISH»FRENCH DICTNARY

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.

THE MANY LOURS OF MARRIAGE: GAY MARRIAGE 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. Related stori:Thoands flood Paris to prott same-sex marriageFrance legaliz gay marriage spe angry protts.