Is Gay Marriage Too Progrsive for the French? |

Contents:

• MEET FRANCE’S FIRST MARRIED GAY COUPLE
• IS GAY MARRIAGE TOO PROGRSIVE FOR THE FRENCH?
• TRANSLATN OF GAY – ENGLISH–FRENCH DICTNARY

MEET FRANCE’S FIRST MARRIED GAY COUPLE

Consumg love between two young men France's Normandy regn 1985 is the subject of gay French tr Franis Ozon's latt film, aptly tled Summer of 85.

Wh s settg at the height of the '80s, s European backdrop, and soundtrack that clus classics om the Cure and Banarama, Summer of 85 is sure to draw parisons to another gay-themed arthoe film recent memory -- Lu Guadagno's Call Me by Your Name. France’s first gay marriage, officiated the town hall of Montpellier ont of hundreds of people, was as much the culmatn of a bter polil battle as the us of a great love. (MORE: France Legaliz Gay Marriage Dpe Vol and Angry Opposn).

IS GAY MARRIAGE TOO PROGRSIVE FOR THE FRENCH?

For months Paris streets have been racked wh vlent clash that have drawn enraged crowds onto the streets to prott agast a central policy of Hollan’s Socialist Party, which vowed s electn mpaign a year ago to legalize gay marriage.

TRANSLATN OF GAY – ENGLISH–FRENCH DICTNARY

Even after the French Senate passed the bill legalizg gay marriage two weeks ago, the protts did not let up.

As Aut and Boile were takg their vows on Wednday, Bno Vercken, a member of the polil board of the right-wg Christian Democratic Party, was tellg France 24 Televisn that the battle was not over, spe the hard-won rights of gay upl. The issue, he says, would ntue to foc on stoppg gay upl om procreatg. Durg months of fierce bat on the floor of France’s Natnal Assembly and on the streets, the schism among French voters has explod around the issue of nuclear fai, rather than around homosexualy self.

While the law now allows gay upl to adopt children, stops short of permtg them to have blogil children through assisted reproductn — an issue that general remas highly ntent, even for heterosexual upl, this largely Catholic untry.