Prime Minister Élisabeth Borne announced this Thursday that an “ambassador for LGBT+ rights” will be appointed “before the end of the year” as well as “the creation of a fund of three million euros to create ten new LGBT+ centers”, in addition to the 35 existing. The head of government spoke during a visit to the LGBT+ (lesbian, gay, bi, trans) center in Orleans, on the occasion of the fortieth anniversary of the repeal of discrimination between heterosexual and homosexual relationships introduced in the Penal Code by the Vichy regime. 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 Discrimination remained in force when the age of majority was reduced to 18 years in 1974, before the left repealed it in 1982 and aligned the sexual majority at 15, regardless of the sex of the couples.
Source: BFM TV
