Marriage for all: 10 years later

10 years ago to the day, to thunderous applause from the deputies at the Palais Bourbon, the Taubira law on marriage for all was adopted. This is a real turning point for French society, also a convincing success for the Keeper of the Seals, which brought the project to the National Assembly. “It’s true that it was a real pleasure, even if it was a real battle every second”, she explains. With this law, Christiane Taubira materializes a promise of the candidate for the Élysée who became President of the Republic, François Hollande.

70,000 marriages since 2013

In the street, opponents of this same-sex marriage call themselves “La manif pour tous”. Within the processions, for weeks, they defend, they say, a conservative family model. A decade later, Christiane Taubira remembers these insults: “The homophobic surge seemed serious to me. I was surprised to see such energy deployed against the rights of other citizens”. After this legal battle, the first same-sex marriage was celebrated in Montpellier (Hérault), one month after the adoption of the law. There will have been more than 70,000 unions in ten years.