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Contents:

• FRANCE OUTLAWS SEXIST AND ANTI-GAY SULTS
• THOANDS MARCH AT PARIS GAY PRI TO MAND PROCREATN FOR ALL

FRANCE OUTLAWS SEXIST AND ANTI-GAY SULTS

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.

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. 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.

THOANDS MARCH AT PARIS GAY PRI TO MAND PROCREATN FOR ALL

It also clus Flag!, a mobile applitn lnched Sprg 2020 simplifyg the procs of reportg homophobic and transphobic acts such as verbal abe, discrimatns, asslts as well as domtic vlence wh LGBT+ upl. Why the bs and polil gay el France rema the closet and how affects anphone AiI believe some of the key dispari the out of the French and US gay liberatn movement n be explaed by the difference between a workg-class led movement vers an ele-driven turn, this observatn n help unrstand how to achieve progrs societal acceptance other untri but also how to bridge the gap progrs the anphone world vers the anglophone urse, other parameters such as the language barrier and the philanthropic culture play a role, but I argue that the ma explanatn is the extent to which the LGBTQ+ ele — and to be ank mostly gay whe men — lent s clout and money to advance the explanatn is the difference between French and Amerin culture and particularly puranism. The French culture, more permissive wh the domant class, gave a pass to affluent gay men provid they were discreet about their homosexualy and did not ask for rights.

On the other hand, the US, obssed wh qutns of moraly, persecuted upper-class gay men as illtrated by the “lavenr sre” as an this reason, the US LGBTQ+ ele was eager to see change and vted s rourc and nnectns to achieve . I observed a suatn like that of France when I first travelled to India 2012 where the poort, facg the bnt of homophobia and transphobia, wanted change and crimalizatn. However gay male el — often keepg a straight fay and a gay boyiend — argued for an Indian specificy and the 2012, Richard Dgs, a well-known French amic, was found ad a New York hotel room.

Siarly, 2017, the French Printial electn favoure Emmanuel Macron was forced to ny a ‘gay affair’ wh the CEO of Rad France, a mor that had been started to discred his mpaign.

I n unt on both hands the number of Enarqu (graduat of the omnipotent Ele Natnale d’Admistratn) who are fully reluctance of gay ele to engage the French movement has negative nsequenc on the fundg of the movement, the engagement by Governments and workplace cln (see my 2017 article, “Why is France so slow to clu LGBT people the workplace? On the other hand, also means that there is ls ele pture fg the movement’s Angels Ameri, the famo Roy Cohn claims “Like all labels, [“gay”, “homosexual”, “lbian”] refer to one thg and one thg only: Where do a person so intified f the food cha? 5 ln) and Uganda (5 ln) I mentned prevly, one silver lg is that affluent whe gay men have ls of a monopoly on fg the movement’s prri France and anizatns have more legimacy the movement.

Ultimately, the French and US exampl provi lsons for our mpaigng efforts the many untri where LGBTQ+ movement are nascent: i) the need to articulate the se for LGBTQ+ el to engage themselv the gay liberatn movement, while ii) ensurg that LGBTQ+ anizatns rema reprentative of the entire muny. June 05, 2023Diversy and clnDiversy – Air France and the associatn Personn’Ail celebrate Internatnal Day agast Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia Air France and many of s employe have an active and long-standg mment to fightg all forms of discrimatn based on genr inty or sexual orientatn.