PS Senator Hussein Bourgi will present a bill on Saturday that provides compensation for people convicted of homosexuality between 1942 and 1982, he announced this Wednesday, on the eve of a trip by Elisabeth Borne to Orleans on this subject.
Forty after the law of August 4, 1982 that definitively decriminalized homosexuality in France, the Prime Minister will visit the LGBT+ reception center GAGL 45 in Orleans on Thursday. She will be accompanied by Isabelle Rome, Minister in charge of Equality between women and men , diversity and equal opportunities.
“Several tens of thousands of people have been sentenced”
Hussein Bourgi said that he chose to present his bill on August 6, “a very symbolic date since it corresponds to the 80th anniversary of the entry into force of the Vichy provisions that repress homosexuality.”
The Vichy regime had introduced discrimination between heterosexual relationships (the sexual majority was then set at 15 years old) and homosexual relationships, penalized if one of the partners was a minor (then 21 years old). Discrimination remained in force when the age of majority was reduced to 18 years in 1974, before the left repealed it in 1982 and aligned the sexual majority at 15, regardless of the sex of the couples.
“Between 1942 and 1982, several tens of thousands of people were sentenced,” recalls Hussein Bourgi.
The text has already been signed by more than twenty PS senators, including Loiret senator Jean-Pierre Sueur and Paris senators Marie-Pierre de La Gontrie and Rémi Féraud. It will be proposed as of this Thursday for the signature of the rest of the political groups.
The bill would now only affect 150 to 200 people, according to Hussein Bourgi. The text echoes a column published in Stubborn on June 15, at the initiative of various associations for the defense of LGBT rights, and signed in particular by Michel Chomarat, himself convicted of homosexuality in 1977.
Source: BFM TV
