French high urt grants new rights to gay parents

Contents:

• FRENCH GAY UPL GET RIGHT TO 'MARRY, ADOPT CHILDREN'
• FIRST GAY ADOPTN APPROVED FRANCE
• FRANCE OVERLED ON GAY ADOPTN
• GAY RIGHTS FRANCE: AFTER MARRIAGE EQUALY, WHAT'S NEXT?
• FRENCH LOWER HOE PASS GAY MARRIAGE, ADOPTN BILL
• FRENCH PARLIAMENT LEGALIS GAY MARRIAGE, ADOPTN
• FRENCH HIGH URT GRANTS NEW RIGHTS TO GAY PARENTS
• FRANCE BE 14TH NATN TO LEGALIZE GAY MARRIAGE AND ADOPTN HISTORIC VOTE
• LGBT ADOPTN: ARE GAYS ALLOWED TO ADOPT UNED STAT?
• FRENCH PRINT SIGNS GAY MARRIAGE TO LAW
• FRANCE TO PASS GAY MARRIAGE, ADOPTN LAW

FRENCH GAY UPL GET RIGHT TO 'MARRY, ADOPT CHILDREN'

Image ptn, At prent, only married upl and not civil unn partners n adopt FranceGay upl France will be allowed to get married and to adopt children as of 2013, Prime Mister Jean-Marc Ayrlt has announced announcement was part of a keynote speech outlg the new Socialist ernment's five-year plan. A survey rried out at the begng of the year showed 63% of French people are favour of gay marriage while 56% support gay nfirmatn of the new law me only days after Paris held s annual Gay Pri para, which this year was buoyed by the new erment's promise to legalise gay marriage and adoptn a symbolic gture, French Mister for Fai Domique Bertotti turned out to see the para floats set off.

FIRST GAY ADOPTN APPROVED FRANCE

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. In June, France was wrapped ntroversy after two regnal adoptn agency officials ma disparagg remarks about same-sex upl: one sayg that agenci would always favor heterosexual upl over homosexual on, and another that same-sex upl were “atypil” and should be prepared to adopt “atypil” children – those who are olr or wh disabili.

FRANCE OVERLED ON GAY ADOPTN

Jt, who was adopted himself, knew how long the procs uld last – for all upl, gay or straight – and didn’t want to durg one of the terviews halfway through the lengthy, paperwork-tensive procs, Jt says, “A psychologist told , ‘In any se, you’ll never adopt France. But social norms and a relig history rooted nservative Catholicism have prevented LGBT upl om exercisg the rights to which they are legally June, France was wrapped ntroversy after two regnal adoptn agency officials ma disparagg remarks about same-sex upl – one sayg that agenci would always favor heterosexual upl over homosexual on, and another that same-sex upl were “atypil” and should be prepared to adopt “atypil” children – those who were olr or wh ments have dredged up latent discrimatn a untry that thought had progrsed further than that, and have forced French society to look ward for solutns. “In terms of homosexualy general, France is still que nservative even when to acceptg same-sex marriage, ” says Sébastien Chv, a French soclogist who studi genr and sexualy at the Universy of Lsanne.

While parts of the Catholic Church have embraced homosexuals and their partnerships, the official le remas agast such is often a problem for same-sex upl adoptn proceedgs.

”In addn, there are statistilly fewer children to adopt France than the US, so that when fay anizatns are prented wh multiple dossiers – cludg heterosexual and homosexual upl – the heterosexual upl ually w observers agree, however, that the swiftns wh which the public and the ernment reacted to the ntroversial adoptn statements June is an ditor of progrs ma.

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

The announcement was celebrated by the Associatn of Gay and Lbian Parents and Future Parents, which said that om now on, children may hear school hallways, “Two moms or two dads, ’s possible! Jt Sullivan / Getty ImagThe European Court of Human Rights' latt lg on adoptn was hailed by gay rights anizatns France and across Europe for takg on one of the many kds of discrimatn homosexuals face ordary life. Gay and lbian groups say opens the way for legal challeng other European stat wh adoptn laws siar to those of France — yet falls well short of a blanket lg that would oblige all untri to allow adoptn by homosexuals.

The urt flted the French urts for cg "the lack of a paternal referent the hoehold", and said the woman's homosexualy had been "if not explic, at least implic" France's rejectn of her adoptn requt. Franck Tanguy, spokman for France's Associatn of Gay and Lbian Parents, says "this lg is a step the right directn" that "requir untri that, like France, allow sgl to adopt children to treat unmarried homosexual and heterosexual applints exactly the same manner.

" Failure to do so any untry wh such legislatn, Tanguy says, means they'd "fd themselv nmned aga and aga for discrimatn by the many sgle homosexuals who'd e this precent to base a legal fense on". However, Tanguy regrets the lg "won't change anythg untri that don't allow any sgl to adopt, nor force natns that don't allow homosexual upl to adopt to change their laws".

FRENCH LOWER HOE PASS GAY MARRIAGE, ADOPTN BILL

France's lower hoe of parliament approved a sweepg bill on Tuday to legalize gay marriage and allow same-sex upl to adopt children, handg a major legislative victory to Print Franis Hollan's Socialists on a divisive social measure, approved the Natnal Assembly a 329-to-229 vote, puts France on track to jo about a dozen mostly European natns that allow gay marriage and spe a strg of recent monstratns by opponents of the so-lled "marriage for all" dite a narrow majory of French support legalizg gay marriage, though that support falls when qutns about the adoptn and nceptn of children e to Assembly has been batg the bill, and votg on s dividual articl recent weeks. The overall legislatn now go the g weeks to the Senate, which also is ntrolled by the erng Socialists and their Tuday's vote, France jos Bra takg a major legislative step recent weeks toward allowg gay marriage and adoptn — makg them the largt European untri to do so.

FRENCH PARLIAMENT LEGALIS GAY MARRIAGE, ADOPTN

The Socialists last month backed off plans to lk the gay marriage measure to relaxed rtrictns on fertily treatments, after tchg polil heat for s stance on assisted reproductn.

But Hollan's populary has fallen along wh France's lacklter enomic performance, and his fo on the right appear to sense he might be vulnerable on a high-profile social latt polls suggt a narrow majory of French support gay marriage, but that has cled om about two-thirds support Augt. Two weeks later, about 125, 000 proponents of the bill marched the civil unns, allowed sce 1999, are at least as popular among heterosexuals as among gay and lbian upl.

FRENCH HIGH URT GRANTS NEW RIGHTS TO GAY PARENTS

“I hope people across the untry will celebrate this moment, ” said Mart Gaillard, a 31-year-old advote of gay marriage, who admted feelg strsed durg the past weeks bee of all the attentn garnered by the law’s tractors. “This remas a joyo day, ” add Gaillard, whose “Projet Entourage LGBT” has sought to build support for gay marriage on the Inter for over two relled that gay marriage had ltle polil tractn at the start of his project, but then beme a hot topic of the 2012 printial mpaign. Print François Hollan me to power last May promisg to legalise marriage and adoptn for same-sex opn polls show that a majory –between 53% and 58%– of people France support gay marriage.

FRANCE BE 14TH NATN TO LEGALIZE GAY MARRIAGE AND ADOPTN HISTORIC VOTE

Vlent nontatnsThe months-long legislative procs was closely followed by supporters and opponents of the bill, who staged massive ralli Paris and around the untry to eher fend or try to feat the historic anti-gay marriage mp –a motley mix that clus tradnal Catholic fai, some members of the opposn UMP party and far-right groups– anised some of the largt march seen France recent ’s Cann said the issue had revealed a sharp iologil divi French society, wh more than 72% of right-wg sympathisers sayg they were agast the the bill neared a fal vote, some opponents adopted a hardle approach, leadg to vlent nontatns wh police on Paris’s inic Champs Elysé late March. Meanwhile, rights groups said they had documented a signifint rise attacks targetg gays and LGBT-iendly bs, and acced the so-lled peaceful protts of trivialisg hateful homophobic speech.

Qutned as to what would bee of Projet Entourage LGBT –now that gay marriage was no longer an ia but a realy– Gaillard said his group was nsirg turng s attentn to champng accs to vro fertilisatn for same-sex upl or supportg teen victims of homophobia.

Surrogacy, when a woman rri and giv birth to a child on behalf of someone else, often beg paid for the service, is prohibed a rult, some gay upl France have turned to surrogate mothers plac where the practice is legal, such as other untri Europe or the Uned until 2015, France refed to regnise surrogate children as French cizens -- a hardle stance that left the children another lg on Wednday, the urt refed a requt that French thori tomatilly regnise the two parents listed on the foreign birth certifite, but led that the father's partner uld apply to adopt the child, le wh a 2013 law allowg both gay marriag and adoptns.

LGBT ADOPTN: ARE GAYS ALLOWED TO ADOPT UNED STAT?

Surrogacy is a hot-button topic France, wh Catholic groups fiercely opposed to any ncsns to gay upl who circumvent the ban by g foreign surrogate lg is the send victory a week for same-sex upl who want week, a natnal ethics body remend allowg sgle women and lbian upl to receive fertily treatment. It was tortuo, featured epic monstratns Paris and the rt of France by cizens favorg or opposg , there was even the ocsnal burst of vlence the four months of bate leadg up to today’s vote by the French Natnal Assembly on the legalizatn of gay marriage.

FRENCH PRINT SIGNS GAY MARRIAGE TO LAW

Last week, French Print Franis Hollan–embattled on so many onts–nounced homophobic and vlent cints, while right-wg lawmakers om the floor of the assembly lk gay marriage and adoptn to “the assassatn of children.

On 05 July 2017, the Cour Cassatn refed a requt that French thori tomatilly regnise the two parents listed on the foreign birth certifite, but led that the father’s partner uld apply to adopt the child, le wh a 2013 law allowg both gay marriag and adoptns [C2.

A relatively new addn to the list of provisns enshred the 1951 UN Conventn that entl a person to apply for refugee stat, “sexual orientatn” ow s cln to a growg unrstandg a handful of untri that lbians and gays nstute a distct social group. On 28 July 2012, the Admistrative Court of Paris overturned the Mistry of Interr’s cisn to reject the asylum claim by “Lame”, a man who fled homophobic persecutn Senegal, fdg there were several procral errors [R2. On 25 July 2012, the judge of the Tribunal Gran Instance Touloe was reported to have orred a gay asylum seeker om Senegal to be ported to his home untry spe facg ath threats and imprisonment [R2.

FRANCE TO PASS GAY MARRIAGE, ADOPTN LAW

On 03 November 2016, was reported that the Cour d’Appeal orred Lre Pora, formerly print of the Paris branch of the AIDS Coaln to Unleash Power (ACT UP), to pay €800 to anti-LGBTI group La Manif pour to and judicial st of €1, 500 for puttg up posters showg the logo of La Manif Pour To as well as pictur of La Rochère wh the word ”homophobe” brandished across them [R1. On 08 April 2016, an employment tribunal Paris was reported to have led that llg a male hairdrser a ”faggot” is not homophobic – ”bee hair salons regularly employ gay people”. On 02 November 2016, the Court of Appeals of Paris reportedly nvicted French polician and former hog mister Christe Bout of ”hate speech” when she lled homosexualy an ”abomatn” an terview wh the high-brow polil magaze Charl March 2014.