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Paris Mayor Reveals Deeply Homophobic Culture
[The Data Lounge]
Despite progress in the realm of legal rights for its gay and lesbian citizens over the last 20 years, France remains a deeply homophobic nation run by a president who has yet to make a significant commitment to equal rights, the openly gay mayor of Paris reveals in a new autobiography, according to Agence France-Presse.
Mayor Bertrand Delanoe, who made huge waves with a coming-out interview on national television in 1998, criticizes the government of President Jacques Chirac for its record on LGTB rights and Finance Minister Nicolas Sarkozy for his insinuation that Delanoe used his sexuality for political gain. The 54-year-old Parisian mayor also depicts a cultural silence surrounding homosexuality- especially outside of major cities such as Paris.
Despite progress in the realm of legal rights for its gay and lesbian citizens over the last 20 years, France remains a deeply homophobic nation run by a president who has yet to make a significant commitment to equal rights, the openly gay mayor of Paris reveals in a new autobiography, according to Agence France-Presse.
Mayor Bertrand Delanoe, who made huge waves with a coming-out interview on national television in 1998, criticizes the government of President Jacques Chirac for its record on LGTB rights and Finance Minister Nicolas Sarkozy for his insinuation that Delanoe used his sexuality for political gain. The 54-year-old Parisian mayor also depicts a cultural silence surrounding homosexuality- especially outside of major cities such as Paris.
"Outside certain circles homosexuality is still something to be endured," Delanoe writes in Life, Passionately. "In small towns, and especially in the countryside, homos are condemned to secrecy. To be homo is to be different, from a minority- not like the rest," the Agence France-Presse reports. PARIS, FRANCE
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