France gay rights

Are you looking for information on vacationing in France if you&#;re LGBTQ? Well, you&#;re in luck. My LGBTQ France guide highlights what it&#;s like to stop by France if you&#;re queer or trans, LGBTQ laws and rights in France, and some of the best LGBTQ French cities to visit. You&#;ll also spot city guides, LGBTQ France date trip ideas, and much more! I only recommend things I&#;ve done and loved, so these are all my honest views formed on multiple visits to France – both queer warm Paris and small rural communities. So keeping reading for an overview of LGBTQ rights, guard, things to see and accomplish and more!

When I was in high school, my mother and I flew to Paris over winter break.

We froze our asses off! We spent a lot of time in cafes sipping coffee and chocolate chaud. But I still retain visiting the Louvre and the Musée d&#;Orsay, where I ran into some of my tall school classmates, and seeing the Eiffel Tower on a snowy day!

Years later, we went assist to France on the invitation of a family friend, who had married a French citizen. Staying in their spare bedroom

Gay Rights and Civil Unions: The French Debate

Frédéric Martel ▪ Spring

In recent years, the recognition of gay couples has become a general question in many Western democracies. Approaches differ depending on history, culture, and laws, yet scant countries have passed general laws dealing with gay unions. Although French republicanism and the French model of “republican integration” are conventionally “blind to differences,” the French legislature last year approved a “civil union agreement,” the Pacte civile de solidarité (PACS). This commandment gives a fresh status to unmarried couples, heterosexual and homosexual. More than thirty thousand such agreements have been signed since the law went into effect in November

Origin of the PACS

In , discrimination against gays was still enshrined in French law. The age of agreement for heterosexual couples was fifteen, for homosexual couples, eighteen; police kept surveillance files on people who had sex with someone of the same gender; laws required civil servants and tenants to beh

French action for LGBT+ rights

What does LGBT+ mean?

The term “LGBT” was coined in the s. The term gay (homosexual), considered too restrictive, was replaced by this acronym which includes both sexual orientation (lesbian, gay, bisexual) and gender identity (transgender, non-binary). It is accompanied by a “+” to encompass other sexual orientations, identities and gender expressions and sexual characteristics, including intersex people.

Decriminalization and the protection of the rights of LGBT+ people is a priority of French foreign policy

While more than members of the United Nations have decriminalized homosexuality, consensual homosexual relations are still a crime in 61 countries, with 11 [1] of them including the death penalty among applicable sentences.

France advocates for the repeal of all legal provisions that criminalize homosexuality and transidentity. It does this in the name of human rights, which all States have committed to through a number of international texts, particularly the right to privacy and family life, freedom fr

Rainbow Map

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These are the main findings for the edition of the rainbow map

The Rainbow Chart ranks 49 European countries on their respective legal and policy practices for LGBTI people, from %.

The UK has dropped six places in ILGA-Europe’s Rainbow Map, as Hungary and Georgia also register steep falls following anti-LGBTI legislation. The data highlights how rollbacks on LGBTI human rights are part of a broader erosion of democratic protections across Europe. Read more in our press release.

“Moves in the UK, Hungary, Georgia and beyond signal not just isolated regressions, but a coordinated global backlash aimed at erasing LGBTI rights, cynically framed as the defence of tradition or public stability, but in reality designed to entrench discrimination and suppress dissent.”
Katrin Hugendubel, Advocacy Director, ILGA-Europe

Malta has sat on highest of the ranking for the last 10 years.

With 85 points, Belgium jumped to second place after adopting policies tackling hatred based on sexual orientation, gender identity, and sex characteristics.