Thoands of people marched Saturday Paris as part of the annual LGBT Pri para, wh secury beefed up for the event jt three weeks after an attack on a gay club Orlando, Florida.
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FRANCE OUTLAWS SEXIST AND ANTI-GAY SULTS
LGBT Rights France: homosexualy, gay marriage, gay adoptn, servg the ary, sexual orientatn discrimatn protectn, changg legal genr, donatg blood, age of nsent, and more. * france inter lgbt *
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.
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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.
THOANDS MARCH AT PARIS GAY PRI TO MAND PROCREATN FOR ALL
Why the bs and polil gay el France rema the closet and how affects anphone Ai I believe some of the key dispari the out of the French and US gay… * france inter lgbt *
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.
Covid-19 lockdowns led to an crease anti-LGBT vlence wh fai France 2020, acrdg to associatns supportg lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr people. The groups say they… * france inter lgbt *
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. He was ambhed while leavg a nightclub and forced to the back of a r, where “they h me the face, all over the body, everywhere – at one pot, my head h the rear wdow like a bullet […] I thought I was gog to die”, this 30-year-old gay man told the se Rouen prosecutor’s office opened an vtigatn on October 29 for kidnappg and homophobic attack on Roma is remiscent on those agast Arnd, September, and Guillme, October, both Paris.
In their s, as that of Roma, the photos of their swollen fac were wily shared on social media, givg an imprsn that the number of and vlence experienced durg homophobic attacks is creasg. At the natnal level, plats of homophobic attacks have creased by 15 percent sce the begng of 2018 – although, acrdg to the Paris prefecture, the same figure has creased by 11.
Thoands of people took to the streets of the French pal Saturday for the fortieth Paris Gay Pri rally to remd French Print Emmanuel Macron of his electn promise to make medilly assisted… * france inter lgbt *
That is while Stop Homophobie says received “8, 000 plats 2017 and then another 9, 400 sce the start of 2018, even though – of urse – we haven’t fished the year yet” bat a e of spike vlence?
However, Potier argued that – perhaps paradoxilly – physil and verbal attacks on LGBT people stem om the liberalisatn of French social mor: “LGBT inty has bee creasgly visible – for example, gay people hold hands the street, and that has created a backlash. ” Meanwhile the ter-misterial task force has observed a proliferatn of hate speech durg major events tied to gay inty, such as Gay Pri or the Internatnal Day Agast Homophobia and Transphobia. “Too many people ntue to e out wh anti-gay sults whout even realisg what they’re sayg – jt look at what people say fs of road rage or durg a football match, ” lamented Frédéric Lefèvre-Htemer, a reprentative of the SOS Homophobia branch Normandy, where the asslt on Roma took place.
The French parliament yterday fively adopted legislatn that uld lead to year-long jail terms for anyone found guilty of sultg homosexuals or jtice mister, Domique Perben, believ the laws are necsary to bat an crease homophobia, but they have been nmned by advot of ee speech who say they are too strict and law puts anti-gay and sexist ments on an equal footg wh racist or anti-semic sults, allowg French urts to hand down f of up to €45, 000 (£30, 000) and jail sentenc of up to 12 months for "famatn or cement to discrimatn, hatred or vlence on the grounds of a person's sex or sexual orientatn". Proferrg an anti-gay sult, cludg any remark "of a more general nature tendg to nigrate homosexuals as a whole", public - meang on air, prt or at a public meetg - is also an imprisonable offence, while private sexist or homophobic tnts between dividuals uld cur f of up to € and femist groups have weled the law, which is part a rponse to a signifint crease verbal and physil attacks rerd agast homosexuals number of vlent acts agast gays doubled to 86 2003. "Another gay rights anisatn, Inter-LGBT, said the law marked "the crossg of a cisive bridge" for femist group L Chienn Gar, or Guard Bch, add that hoped the law would lead to a fall the number of physil attacks on women "by first outlawg verbal vlence" the legislatn, which also tablish an impartial body, the High Authory agast Discrimatn and for Equaly, to help victims of bias, has drawn as much cricism as praise, particularly om advot of ee speech who say will be difficult to enforce and will lead to theory, crics say, the law uld mean that vout Christians who nounce homosexualy as "viant" would be prosecuted; edians n no longer make mother--law jok; the producers and distributors of the mp edy film La Cage Aux Foll uld end up the dock; and parts of the Old Ttament might be media mpaign group Reporters Whout Borrs said a society "advanc towards tolerance...