A gay rights activist says the new mosque and the legalizatn of gay marriage have sparked a willgns wh France’s Mlim muny to engage dialogue.
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- GAY PORN'S ERIK RHOS IS DEAD AFTER SLOWLY DYG PUBLIC FOR YEARS
- GAY PARIS: DISVER THE EXQUISE GAY NEIGHBORHOOD OF THE MARAIS
GAY PORN'S ERIK RHOS IS DEAD AFTER SLOWLY DYG PUBLIC FOR YEARS
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PARIS — When Ludovic-Mohamed Zahed announced his tentns to lnch the first gay-iendly mosque Paris, was difficult for him to image what lay mosque’s lnch November 2012 was a monumental step raisg awarens and providg a place of worship for Mlims who are also part of the LGBT muny. Dpe legalizg gay marriage jt over one year ago, France’s attus toward LGBT rights are mixed.
GAY PARIS: DISVER THE EXQUISE GAY NEIGHBORHOOD OF THE MARAIS
A 2013 Pew Center survey found that 77 percent of people France thk society should accept homosexualy, down om 83 percent 2007.
A 2009 Gallup poll found that 35 percent of Mlims France believe that homosexual acts are morally neher Zahed nor supporters enuntered physil harm followg the mosque’s lnch, he says the weeks and months followg were “tense. ” He rells the first meetg of the associatn he found for gay Mlims France, HM2F, the basement of a fe as charged and tentative. After the media attentn surroundg the announcement of the gay mosque, Zahed says he felt uneasy at home, particularly after his addrs was published the time of mosque’s lnch, a spokman for the Grand Mosque of Paris, one of the largt mosqu France, rpond by sayg that Zahed’s actns were not acrdance wh the the midst of France’s gay marriage bate last year, Dalil Boubakr, rector of the Grand Mosque, told a French rad statn that while he nmns homosexualy he do not ndone nsirs discsn around the issue to be enuragg.