On Wednesday evening, the French National Assembly unanimously approved a bill aimed at recognizing and repairing the harm suffered by people convicted of homosexuality between 1942 and 1982. Michel Chomarat, arrested in 1977 for “indecent exposure” in a gay bar, remembers that time when homosexuality was subject to the law.
“For me, sex was political. I already knew how to respond and act,” he says proudly. ‘We loved them dead or in the closet’: when France condemned homosexuality.