13% of all marriag Paris last year were gay

Contents:

• ELEGANT GAY ELOPEMENT PARIS AT THE EIFFEL TOWER
• 13% OF ALL MARRIAG PARIS LAST YEAR WERE GAY
• HUGE ANTI-GAY-MARRIAGE PROTT MARCH PARIS
• MASS PARIS RALLY AGAST GAY MARRIAGE FRANCE
• FRENCH OPEN TO MARK 10TH ANNIVERSARY OF GAY MARRIAGE FRANCE WH ‘PRI DAY’ AT ROLAND GARROS

ELEGANT GAY ELOPEMENT PARIS AT THE EIFFEL TOWER

Rl & Chris did not plan their gay elopement Paris the first sh of their love. Rl & Chris cid to have their gay elopement Paris, bee the cy of love played an important role their love story. Champagne at Louvre to celebrate gay elopement Paris.

The style they had preapred for their gay weddg Paris was simple and elegant: They both wore black tuxedos, black bowti and black patent leather sho. Vendors of this elegant gay weddg Paris. (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.

13% OF ALL MARRIAG PARIS LAST YEAR WERE GAY

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. 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.

HUGE ANTI-GAY-MARRIAGE PROTT MARCH PARIS

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. Some 1, 331 gay marriag took place the French pal 2014, makg up 13. Same-sex marriag have been legal France sce May 2013 spe signifint protts by the untry’s nservative the law was passed 18 months ago, some 2, 365 gay upl have tied the knot Paris, jt over 14 percent of the ’s INSEE natnal statistics office is due to publish natnwi same-sex marriage figur next week, but s 2013 figure shows the rt of the untry laggg far behd the pal at jt 3 percent of the Paris, the vast majory of gay marriag (72 percent) took place districts (arrondissements) wh Socialist mayors, and around a third were celebrated the 4th arrondissement, home to the historic and gay-iendly Marais well-heeled and nservative 16th arrondissement saw the lowt number of gay marriag at jt 6.

On Saturday 50 people were taed for blockg the same-sex marriage bill, which also legalis gay adoptn, was signed to law by Print Franis Hollan last week, after months of heated bate.

On Tuday, a far-right historian shot himself ad Notre Dame thedral, leavg msag which he nounced gay Sunday's protts, monstrators head lumns om a number of pots Paris to the Invalis ptn, Clash broke out after the ma monstratn fishedSome marchers drove donkeys, one of which bore a plard which read: "I am an ass.

MASS PARIS RALLY AGAST GAY MARRIAGE FRANCE

Opposn to gay marriage has bee nflated wh all sorts of other anti-ernment grievanc g om the right and the atmosphere the untry is particularly volatile, the BBC's Hugh Schofield is now the nth untry Europe, and 14th globally, to legalise gay on this story. Media ptn, The BBC's Hugh Schofield: "The march anisers do not want to be typest as homophobic"Hundreds of thoands of protters have taken to the streets of Paris over plans to give gay upl France the right to marry and adopt big march nverged on the Champs Mars, a large park next to the Eiffel 's Socialist ernment is planng to change the law this year.

A siar march November attracted around 100, 000 "Demo for all" event was beg led by a charismatic edian known as Frigi Barjot, who tweeted that the "crowd is immense" and told French TV that gay marriage "mak no sense" bee a child should be born to a man and woman. Image ptn, Four topls femist activists staged a prott St Peter's Square favour of gay rightsCentre-right UMP Print Jean-Franis Cope said the rally would be a "tt" for the print bee there were "clearly lns of French people who are probably ncerned by this reform" far-right Natnal Front is also opposed to the change, although s lear Mare Le Pen stayed away om the march, argug the issue was a diversn by policians om France's real problems.

Dpe the support of the Church and polil right, the anisers are keen to strs their movement is non-polil and non-relig, and no way directed agast homosexuals, BBC Paris rrponnt Hugh Schofield opn poll of almost 1, 000 people published by Le Nouvel Observatr newspaper at the weekend suggted that 56% supported gay marriage, while 50% disapproved of gay adoptn. Earlier polls had dited stronger support for the legalisatn of gay the marchers began arrivg the centre of Paris, four Ukraian activists staged their own prott St Peter's Square the Vatin support of gay women om femist group Femen appeared topls while Pope Benedict reced his tradnal Angel prayer.

FRENCH OPEN TO MARK 10TH ANNIVERSARY OF GAY MARRIAGE FRANCE WH ‘PRI DAY’ AT ROLAND GARROS

The arguments agast same-sex marriage France sound siar to those exprsed other untri, wh many opponents sayg they’re for more civil rights, but agast homosexuals officially gettg married. Other protters lled themselv “a fenr of the fay, ” or said they “are not homophobic, (but) jt want to protect children. It remas a major hub for gay culture today and ntu to draw LGBTQ travelers om around the globe.