As partners in France mark 5 years on Monday since same-sex wedding ended up being made appropriate aided by the hashtag #5ansMariagePourTous, ex-president Francois Hollande indicated regret at without having done more to advance the legal rights of “non-traditional” families.
France’s federal government voted to pass through a bill legalising same-sex wedding and use on April 23, 2013, after months of intense lobbying pros and cons the legislation. The anti-gay wedding movement, Manif Pour Tous (or Protest For All) , mounted an intense campaign up against the measure, at one point claiming to own drawn 1.4 million individuals to show when you look at the streets of Paris.
A tad bit more than 30 days following the legislation passed , Vincent Autin and Bruno Boileau became the initial same-sex few to wed in France in an extremely publicised ceremony in the southern town of Montpellier. A lot more than 40,000 same-sex partners have actually since hitched in France, based on the nationwide data office Insee.