The lower house of the French Parliament has passed a bill which will provide recognition and compensation for the estimated 10,000 people – mostly gay men – convicted of homosexuality between 1942 and 1982. The anti-gay law was originally introduced by the Vichy government during World War Two, when France was occupied by Nazi Germany. […]
French President Emmanuel Macron has appointed Education Minister Gabriel Attal as France’s first openly gay Prime Minister. Attal lives in a civil union with Stéphane Séjourné, a member of the European Parliament for La République En Marche. During his political career, Attal received antisemitic and homophobic hate speech on social media, which he once called “bucketloads […]
Toulouse’s Zakaria Aboukhlal and Nantes’ Mostafa Mohamed were omitted from the teamsheet for a French football league Ligue 1 clash between the two clubs on Sunday, May 14 after refusing to participate in a campaign against homophobia, which saw all teams in Ligue 1 and Ligue 2 wearing shirts with numbers in rainbow colours.
The All You Need Is Love exhibition will be at the Ledward Centre from 5pm on Monday, May 15 until Wednesday, June 21
Elska Magazine, a publication dedicated to sharing the bodies and voices of LGBTQ+ communities around the world, has put the spotlight on Paris for its latest issue.
Do you have LGBTQ+ friends or contacts in France? Chris need participants who can get to Paris between March 27 – 31 to come and sit for him.
The world has cautiously opened up again and we can go almost anywhere including of course our closest friend, France. With all French government pronouncements there always has to be a health warning as they are quite capable of closing their frontiers at a moment’s notice without much warning. The hoops we have to jump […]
Shortly after Canada issued a ban on LGBTQ+ conversion therapy, France has also outlawed the highly controversial practice.
France is likely to outlaw LGBTQ+ conversion therapy after the country’s National Assembly voted unanimously to pass Bill 673 on Tuesday.
During Covid-19 lockdowns in 2020, France saw an increase in anti-LGBTQ+ violence within families.
