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…
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- FIRST GAY MARRIAGE CELEBRATED FRANCE
- TEN YEARS OF GAY MARRIAGE FRANCE: SAME-SEX UPL REFLECT ON A OF CHANGE
- FRANCE'S GAY MARRIAGE FIGHT
- 08 MAR 2013 FRANCE EMBRAC GAY MARRIAGE
FIRST GAY MARRIAGE CELEBRATED FRANCE
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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.
TEN YEARS OF GAY MARRIAGE FRANCE: SAME-SEX UPL REFLECT ON A OF CHANGE
"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.
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.
FRANCE'S GAY MARRIAGE FIGHT
"It's likely that we'll have to harn penalti for homophobic speech and behavr by law.
08 MAR 2013 FRANCE EMBRAC GAY MARRIAGE
" 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.