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.

In the mid-20th century the gay Paris moved to Sat Germa s Près the 6th arrondissement, and by the 1960s had shifted to Rue Sat Anne, the 1st and 2nd arrondissement. In 1942, the Vichy regime troduced for the first time different sexual majori for heterosexual and homosexual relatnships (this discrimatory legislatn remaed force until 1982). The Amerin gay activist artist had a cravg for spirualy at the end of his life and realized dozens of J life art piec, dispatched across the world as he wanted to be.

For more than 40 years, the Marche s Fiertés Para, lbians, gays, bis, trans, tersex, queers, iends have been walkg a ftive but polil atmosphere for Equal Rights, agast discrimatn, to blossom their bodi, souls, genrs, liv, and fai.

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However, homophobia has creased signifintly sce 2015 (+ 44%), even if did not reach the rerds of 2013 and 2014 (we were then the midst of a bate on same sex marriage legalizatn). Created on April 11, 1994 and Paris based, has veloped terrorial legatns to ensure the relay of s actns to fight agast homophobia and to fight for equal rights. A total of 12 untri provi ath penalty for homosexualy, Ai and the Middle East: Afghanistan, Sdi Arabia, Bnei, Uned Arab Emirat, Iran, Mrania, Qatar, Nigeria, Pakistan, Sudan, Somalia and Yemen.

In 2013, Paris had very bad prs when thoands, maly a small mory nservative Catholics marched, sometim wh vlence, prott of legalized same sex marriage agast LGBT Paris cludg homoparentaly, mostly supported by members of the right and the far right. The prent bishop of Paris, Monseignr Aupet supported om the begng this prott, wh Barbar Cardal, the name of children’s protectn om homoparentaly and the modifitn of fertily (Note that this appli to heterosexual upl as well).

In 2014 and on several ocsns, the ex-lear Frigi Barjot of the anti same sex marriage prott regnized and apologized for the homophobia that the movement agast LGBT Paris which she led and left uld have engenred. ’ A former high school teacher, Archbishop Wter said bullyg n be pecially toxic for young people who are tryg to e to terms wh their sexual orientatn, pecially when eher they or others misterpret church teachg on homosexualy to nvey the notn that beg gay self is sful. Acrdg to the Centers for Disease Control and Preventn, lbian, gay and bisexual youth are bullied and attempt suici at higher rat than their heterosexual peers.

New Ways Mistry, an Amerin fense associatn for LGBT + Catholics also celebrated the news of the promotn of Zuppi but also of three other archbishops, also ncerned wh the LGBT + qutn: Archbishop Jean-Cl Hollerich of Luxembourg, who had sisted wh the Church not to make a nnectn between “homosexualy” and “pedophilia”; the Reverend Michael Czerny, a Canadian prit who met wh LGBT + groups to discs the crimalizatn of homosexualy around the world and created an associatn for people livg wh AIDS Ai; and Archbishop José Tolento Medon, Vatin archivist and librarian, who “spoke posively about LGBT + associatns 2010, ” acrdg to New Ways.

However, the nservative such as, The Church Milant webse, a 501 anizatn Michigan, do not hate to ll Zuppi “a homosexualist” who would have ntributed to makg the Bologne archdce “a center of leftist polics and LGBT activism”. Couple years ago Rome, thanks to the personal terventn of Pope Francis, three young children of one Italian gay uple are beg brought up the Catholic fah and even misterg as altar servers.

The Vatin’s orthodoxy office, the Congregatn for the Doctre of the Fah, issued a formal rponse to a qutn about whether Catholic clergy have the thory to bls gay unns. It did e que a heated discsn wh the German tholic church, which acrdg to NBC Connecticut, “has been at the foreont of openg discsn on hot-button issu such as the church’s teachg on homosexualy. Mugavero of Brooklyn, New York, wrote a pastoral letter, “Sexualy: God’s Gift, ” which was one of the first Roman Catholic statements to nta a passnate and enuragg msage to gay and lbian people.

To nclu, I would like to dite this page to LGBT Paris visors, all of those who are fightg and sufferg om homophobia, discrimatn, racism, hate, vlence, crime, persecutn, genoci, fear, anxiety, prsn, jtice, judgment, unfairns, hypocrisy, poverty, social excln, ny and manipulatn.

(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. 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.

Bee of this breadth, termg each untry's level of LGBTQI+ support requir the parison of many ditors, rangg om whether gay marriage is legal to whether LGBTQI+ dividuals are accepted by the general populatn or subjected to discrimatn and possible vigilante vlence. As of 2022, six untri' legal s specifilly prcribe the ath penalty for the "crime" of homosexualy and another five untri allow for the possibily of the ath penalty.