40 years after the decriminalization of homosexuality, Elisabeth Borne announces measures against homophobia

On the move to Orléans, Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne announced Thursday, August 4, measures to support the LGBT + community. “I have decided to create a fund of 3 million euros to create 10 new LGBT+ centers in France and strengthen the 35 that already exist.“, she announced. An ambassador for LGBT + rights will also be appointed before the end of the year. Decisions that come 40 years to the day after the publication of the Forni law, carried by Robert Badinter, which decriminalized the ‘homosexuality.

“It was time to proclaim also the right to the body of all, including homosexuals, who must be treated like the others“, thus declared the Minister of Justice of François Mitterrand. Michel Navion, a former lawyer, was 24 years old at the time and remembers the relief experienced. “Homosexuality was becoming respectable, and the mark of this respect was all the same that some surly police officers could no longer use the weapon of the 1942 law to repress even a strong kiss.“