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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- TEN YEARS OF GAY MARRIAGE FRANCE: SAME-SEX UPL REFLECT ON A OF CHANGE
- MEET FRANCE’S FIRST MARRIED GAY COUPLE
- FRENCH GAY MARRIAGE LAWS EXCLU SOME FOREIGNERS
TEN YEARS OF GAY MARRIAGE FRANCE: SAME-SEX UPL REFLECT ON A OF CHANGE
The latt om gay French director Franis Ozon is filled wh the heads of new sire the trailer for the film. * french and american gay couple *
Consumg love between two young men France's Normandy regn 1985 is the subject of gay French tr Franis Ozon's latt film, aptly tled Summer of 85. Wh s settg at the height of the '80s, s European backdrop, and soundtrack that clus classics om the Cure and Banarama, Summer of 85 is sure to draw parisons to another gay-themed arthoe film recent memory -- Lu Guadagno's Call Me by Your Name. May 17 is the Internatnal Day Agast Homophobia, Biphobia and Transphobia.
This Wednday also marks exactly 10 years sce gay marriage beme legal France. France’s first gay marriage, officiated the town hall of Montpellier ont of hundreds of people, was as much the culmatn of a bter polil battle as the us of a great love. (MORE: France Legaliz Gay Marriage Dpe Vol and Angry Opposn).
For months Paris streets have been racked wh vlent clash that have drawn enraged crowds onto the streets to prott agast a central policy of Hollan’s Socialist Party, which vowed s electn mpaign a year ago to legalize gay marriage. Even after the French Senate passed the bill legalizg gay marriage two weeks ago, the protts did not let up.
MEET FRANCE’S FIRST MARRIED GAY COUPLE
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As Aut and Boile were takg their vows on Wednday, Bno Vercken, a member of the polil board of the right-wg Christian Democratic Party, was tellg France 24 Televisn that the battle was not over, spe the hard-won rights of gay upl. The issue, he says, would ntue to foc on stoppg gay upl om procreatg.
Durg months of fierce bat on the floor of France’s Natnal Assembly and on the streets, the schism among French voters has explod around the issue of nuclear fai, rather than around homosexualy self. While the law now allows gay upl to adopt children, stops short of permtg them to have blogil children through assisted reproductn — an issue that general remas highly ntent, even for heterosexual upl, this largely Catholic untry.
FRENCH GAY MARRIAGE LAWS EXCLU SOME FOREIGNERS
Opposn to a bill allowg gay upl to adopt has been unexpectedly fierce the untry, which legalized civil unns more than a ago. In a rare move, and to the surprise of many, even the French Catholic Church has bee volved the bate. * french and american gay couple *
“We need a father and a mother, ” Vercken said on televisn, echog the major argument that has been phed for months by gay-marriage protters. The tensy of gay-marriage protts has surprised many, perhaps bee France has a fairly progrsive attu toward marriage and relatnships.
France's new same-sex marriage law do not apply to all gay upl, as some batnal upl have recently disvered. Unr the terms of a Jtice Mistry memo, foreign natnals om 11 untri… * french and american gay couple *
And Bertrand Delanoë, who has been mayor of Paris sce 2001, is openly gay, a fact that is accepted by most Parisians whout qutn.
For Hollan, his succs makg gay marriage legal has been polilly ccial. But the bter actns over gay parentg shows ltle signs of easg.
The anizatn, which has surveyed thoands of French cizens on gay marriage durg the past months, found that voters creasgly grew acctomed to the ia as the months of polil bate wore on; today, about two-thirds of those polled said they were favor of gay marriage.