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Contents:

• WHY GAY FRENCH MEN ARE VOTG FAR RIGHT
• GAY RIGHTS
• GAY RIGHTS FRANCE: HOW EVEN THE U.S. LEADS THE WAY
• EUROPE’S EPENG DIVI ON GAY RIGHTS

WHY GAY FRENCH MEN ARE VOTG FAR RIGHT

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. By this is meant that an officer refed to characterize an asslt as homophobic a plat or to even file a plat, or that a law enforcement officer himself discrimated agast LGBT people.

While a majory of the French populatn is favor of allowg same-sex upl to get married and adopt children, opponents of LGBT rights are a “vol mory, ” and are pecially active on social media, where prosecutn for homophobic statements remas difficult to rry out. (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.

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Clément Bene, the Europe mister Mr Macron's centrist ernment, who is gay, tweeted that he was "proud of this agreement" Natns experts have repeatedly nmned nversn therapy, which n e group ssns, jectns, electric shocks and prayer s attempts to alter LGBTQ people's inti.

GAY RIGHTS FRANCE: HOW EVEN THE U.S. LEADS THE WAY

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.

For example, some untri, those who are affiliated wh a relig group tend to be ls acceptg of homosexualy than those who are unaffiliated (a group sometim referred to as relig “non”).

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For example, Swen, the Netherlands and Germany, all of which have a per-pa gross domtic product over $50, 000, acceptance of homosexualy is among the hight measured across the 34 untri surveyed. The study is a follow-up to a 2013 report that found many of the same patterns as seen today, although there has been an crease acceptance of homosexualy across many of the untri surveyed both years. But sub-Saharan Ai, the Middle East, Rsia and Ukrae, few say that society should accept homosexualy; only South Ai (54%) and Israel (47%) do more than a quarter hold this view.

However, while took nearly 15 years for acceptance to rise 13 pots om 2000 to jt before the feral legalizatn of gay marriage June 2015, there was a near equal rise acceptance jt the four years sce legalizatn.

This staggerg 56-pot difference exceeds the next largt difference Japan by 20 pots, where 92% and 56% of those ag 18 to 29 and 50 and olr, rpectively, say homosexualy should be accepted by society. In South Korea, for example, those who classify themselv on the iologil left are more than twice as likely to say homosexualy is acceptable than those on the iologil right (a 39-percentage-pot difference). In Spa, people wh a favorable opn of the Vox party, which recently has begun to oppose some gay rights, are much ls likely to say that homosexualy is acceptable than those who do not support the party.

And Poland, supporters of the erng PiS (Law and Jtice), which has explicly targeted gay rights as anathema to tradnal Polish valu, are 23 percentage pots ls likely to say that homosexualy should be accepted by society than those who do not support the erng party. But even untri like France and Germany where acceptance of homosexualy is high, there are differenc between supporters and non-supporters of key right-wg populist parti such as Natnal Rally France and Alternative for Germany (AfD). Relign, both as relat to relative importance people’s liv and actual relig affiliatn, also plays a large role perceptns of the acceptabily of homosexualy many societi across the globe.

In 25 of the 34 untri surveyed, those who say relign is “somewhat, ” “not too” or “not at all” important their liv are more likely to say that homosexualy should be accepted than those who say relign is “very” important.

Among Israelis, those who say relign is not very important their liv are almost three tim more likely than those who say relign is very important to say that society should accept homosexualy. For example, those who are religly unaffiliated, sometim lled relig “non, ” (that is, those who intify as atheist, agnostic or “nothg particular”) tend to be more acceptg of homosexualy. Though the opns of religly unaffiliated people n vary wily, virtually every untry surveyed wh a sufficient number of unaffiliated rponnts, “non” are more acceptg of homosexualy than the affiliated.

Image source, AFPImage ptn, The new law follows years of prsure om gay and transgenr people FranceGay and transgenr activists have weled a new French law that lets transgenr people change their legal stat whout havg to be activist group ILGA-Europe lled "clear progrs" that "another European untry has dispensed wh the shameful practice of sterilisatn" regretted that trans people France will still have to get a urt to regnise their genr Denmark, Malta, Ireland and Norway have gone further, those untri, legal genr regnn reli on the prciple of "self-termatn" - dispensg wh medil or judicial prciple was also advoted by the Council of Europe - the top European human rights watchdog - an anti-discrimatn rolutn last Council of Europe says transgenr people often face discrimatn Europe, the workplace, hog, health servic or the form of bullyg and hate has to be specified on passports, drivg licenc and many other sential documents.

Image ptn, Baptiste and his boyiend Anthony are both votg Front NatnalThe ma gay district Paris is full of bars, clubs and sex shops - not a place you'd expect to fd support for banng same-sex there are people Le Marais backg the Front Natnal (FN) ahead of this weekend's printial electn France - and that's exactly what the party's lear says she'll suggt Mare Le Pen has plenty of support om gay voters.

"Homosexualy self isn't the only thg I vote for, " Cedric tells over a beer on one of the many terrac Le 's an environmental engeerg stunt and, after some persuasn, agre to go on rerd as a Front Natnal a long time the FN was a taboo France - a ge party cloud by allegatns of homophobia, racism and was found by Jean-Marie Le Pen 1972. He's also been quoted scribg homosexuals as a blogil the Front Natnal has entered the mastream - and sce Mare Le Pen beme s lear 2011, wh her promise to temporarily spend all immigratn and put French terts first, 's a ser ntenr this electn.

Counter-tuively, the Front Natnal has more high level gay figur than any other major party, people like Mare Le Pen's clost adviser Florian, for one, is prepared to take the risk. "Polls suggt the party is now more popular the LGBT muny than perhaps many would want to the 3, 200 gay French men the datg app Hor spoke to, one five said they would be givg Mare Le Pen their pollg the aftermath of the 2015 regnal electns suggted the FN was more popular among married gay men than the general what is about Mare Le Pen that appeals directly to some LGBT voters?

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. 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).

Army service World War I, Gerber was spired to create his anizatn by the Scientific-Humanarian Commtee, a “homosexual emancipatn” group ’s small group published a few issu of s newsletter “Friendship and Freedom, ” the untry’s first gay-tert newsletter. Ernment signated Gerber’s Chigo hoe a Natnal Historic Pk TriangleCorbis/Getty ImagHomosexual prisoners at the ncentratn mp at Sachsenhsen, Germany, wearg pk triangl on their uniforms on December 19, gay rights movement stagnated for the next few s, though LGBT dividuals around the world did e to the spotlight a few example, English poet and thor Radclyffe Hall stirred up ntroversy 1928 when she published her lbian-themed novel, The Well of Lonels. Addnally, 1948, his book Sexual Behavr the Human Male, Aled Ksey proposed that male sexual orientatn li on a ntuum between exclively homosexual to exclively Homophile Years In 1950, Harry Hay found the Mattache Foundatn, one of the natn’s first gay rights group.

”Though started off small, the foundatn, which sought to improve the liv of gay men through discsn groups and related activi, expand after foundg member Dale Jenngs was arrted 1952 for solicatn and then later set ee due to a adlocked the end of the year, Jenngs formed another anizatn lled One, Inc., which weled women and published ONE, the untry’s first pro-gay magaze. Post Office, which 1954 clared the magaze “obscene” and refed to liver Mattache Society Mattache Foundatn members rtctured the anizatn to form the Mattache Society, which had lol chapters other parts of the untry and 1955 began publishg the untry’s send gay publitn, The Mattache Review. That same year, four lbian upl San Francis found an anizatn lled the Dghters of Bilis, which soon began publishg a newsletter lled The Ladr, the first lbian publitn of any early years of the movement also faced some notable setbacks: the Amerin Psychiatric Associatn listed homosexualy as a form of mental disorr followg year, Print Dwight D.

In 1961, Illois beme the first state to do away wh s anti-sodomy laws, effectively crimalizg homosexualy, and a lol TV statn California aired the first documentary about homosexualy, lled The 1965, Dr. ”In fear of beg shut down by thori, bartenrs would ny drks to patrons spected of beg gay or kick them out altogether; others would serve them drks but force them to s facg away om other ctomers to prevent them om 1966, members of the Mattache Society New York Cy staged a “sip-”—a twist on the “s-” protts of the 1960s— which they vised taverns, clared themselv gay, and waed to be turned away so they uld sue. They were nied service at the Greenwich Village tavern Juli, rultg much publicy and the quick reversal of the anti-gay liquor Stonewall Inn A few years later, 1969, a now-famo event talyzed the gay rights movement: The Stonewall clanste gay club Stonewall Inn was an stutn Greenwich Village bee was large, cheap, allowed dancg and weled drag queens and homels the early hours of June 28, 1969, New York Cy police raid the Stonewall Inn.