Gay rights France: After marriage equaly, what's next? - French nnectns

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GAY RIGHTS FRANCE: AFTER MARRIAGE EQUALY, WHAT'S NEXT?

Public OpnSurveys France have shown mixed views towards LGBTQ+ rights and SurveysSupport for Same-Sex Marriage of French support gay marriageViews on Homosexualy Among Mlims of French Mlims fd homosexual acts to be acceptableHistoryHomosexual activy France? Current statSce Mar 16, 2022Legal In 2022, France removed the ferral perd for gay and bi men donatg blood, replacg wh a new policy that appli to all donors, regardls of sexual (3-month ferral)In July 2019, Mister of Health Agnès Buzyn announced that the ferral perd would be rced to four months of abstence om 2 April "f s scrimatns don du sang pour l homm ayant s relatns sexuell avec s homm. (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.

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.

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.

GAY RIGHTS

The small towns and villag around the Alps mounta range bee ski rort hotspots, wh annual gay ski weeks takg place like the European Gay Ski Week. France was one of the first untri to legalize homosexualy 1791 and has long had place proactive anti-discrimatn legislatn for employment, genr inty and hate speech.

Stefan and Sebastien are a gay uple who met London 2009 and have been travelg extensively together Asia, Lat Ameri, North Ameri and Europe. France regrets that too many untri, lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and tersex (LGBTI) people ntue to be victims of harassment, acts of torture, arbrary arrts, and even murrs, plete impuny.

Followg the Orlando attacks, on12 June 2016, the Secury Council, chaired by France, adopted a claratn nmng the attack and s homophobic character. France is workg, ordatn wh s European partners, untri which ntue to penalise homosexualy, and we pay particular attentn to chang unrway the Stat which are tougheng legislatn on this actively participated wh s European partners drawg up the Guil to promote and protect the enjoyment of all human rights by lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and tersex (LGBTI) persons which was adopted by the Foreign Affairs Council June also supports the termed efforts of human rights fenrs and NGOs. France, the Netherlands and Norway created a Human Rights, Sexual Orientatn and Genr Inty Fund 2009, which provis an novative amework aimed at brgg together a wi variety of public and private stakeholrs mted to fightg homophobia and transphobia (Stat, associatns, foundatns).

That’s why ’s time to dive to the French laws that protect and support members of the gay muny and the policians who have put the work to make them happen. Homosexualy was crimalized France 1791, followg the French Revolutn, though members of the gay muny were still subject to social vlence and discrimatn (for parison, sodomy was a felony the Uned Stat until 1962).

Gay marriage was legalized France 2013 unr print François Hollan, spe aggrsive anti-gay marriage protts om French nservativ and relig extremists. When gay marriage was legalized, so was adoptn by gay married upl, though red tape has ma this aspect of the law more symbolic than practil.

An elected member of the regnal uncil of the Greater Paris area sce 2010, lawyer Carole Méry first built her reer as one of the great legal advot for gay rights France. When Bègl mayor Noël Mamère fied French law 2004 and performed the first gay marriage ceremony France, Méry fend both him and the uple qutn urt.

In December 2022, Bene me out as gay and joed the Terroir Progrès party, while remag termed to support Polish queer muni and reprent European affairs Poland’s notor ‘LGBT-ee zon.

’ In an terview wh Têtu, France’s leadg LGBTQ+ magaze, Clément Bene said, “I wouldn’t want people to say I am fightg agast ‘LGBT-ee’ zon bee I am gay. The term “homosexualy, ” while sometim nsired anachronistic the current era, is the most applible and easily translatable term to e when askg this qutn across societi and languag and has been ed other cross-natnal studi, cludg the World Valu Survey.

Dpe major chang laws and norms surroundg the issue of same-sex marriage and the rights of LGBT people around the world, public opn on the acceptance of homosexualy society remas sharply divid by untry, regn and enomic velopment. Those Wtern Europe and the Ameris are generally more acceptg of homosexualy than are those Eastern Europe, Rsia, Ukrae, the Middle East and sub-Saharan Ai. In many natns, there has been an creasg acceptance of homosexualy, cludg the Uned Stat, where 72% say should be accepted, pared wh jt 49% as recently as 2007.

In many of the untri surveyed, there also are differenc on acceptance of homosexualy by age, tn, e and, some stanc, genr – and several s, the differenc are substantial.