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40 years of the decriminalization of homosexuality: "There was widespread ostracism"

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Photo taken during a demonstration for the rights of homosexuals, June 19, 1982. AFP - PHILIPPE WOJAZER

By: Charlotte Derouin

August 4, 1982 marks the end of repressive legislation against homosexuals in France.

Indeed, just 40 years ago a law repealed a discrimination introduced into the penal code by the Vichy regime during the Second World War which set the age of consent at 15 for heterosexual relations, and 21 for homosexual relationships. 

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, one of the last condemned in France for homosexuality (conviction until cassation in February 1981).

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