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Three men sentenced in 2013 attack on gay couple in Paris
PARIS — Three French men were sentenced in Paris on Tuesday for a 2013 attack on a gay man and his partner who were walking arm-in-arm. The men were sentenced for the attack on Wilfred de Bruijn, who was beaten unconscious near his home early in central Paris on April 6, 2013, sustaining five fractures in his head and face, abrasions and a lost tooth.
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Report: Anti-gay attacks in France up 78 percent in 2013
PARIS — A French gay rights groups says attacks against the LGBT community increased by 78 percent in France in 2013.
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EU court: Same-sex couples in civil partnerships must receive equal benefits
BRUSSELS — The European Union’s highest court has ruled that in EU countries where gay couples can’t marry, they must get the same benefits as married people if they enter into civil partnerships.
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France approves first spousal adoption by a same-sex couple
PARIS — A lesbian couple in France has received approval for one wife’s two biological children to be adopted by her spouse, the first such authorized same-sex couple adoption in the country.
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Court: French mayors cannot refuse to officiate same-sex marriages
PARIS — France’s constitutional court has ruled that mayors cannot refuse to carry out same-sex marriages just because they oppose them.
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Paris wins bid to host 2018 Gay Games
PARIS — Paris has won the bid to host the 2018 Gay Games, the lesbian, gay bisexual and transgender community’s answer to the Olympics.
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Twitter faces possible lawsuit over trending anti-gay hashtags
A French gay rights group said on Monday it plans to file a law suit against Twitter for violating the country’s hate speech laws following the emergence of the hashtag “#Gays must die,” which topped Twitter’s “trending topics” over the weekend.
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Same-sex marriage: A surprising contrast between Britain and France
LONDON — The French like to make fun of the British, joking about their repressed ways in matters of the heart. But when it came time to debate same-sex marriage, it was France that betrayed a deep conservative streak in sometimes violent protests — while the British showed themselves to be modern and tolerant.
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Paris police obtain video footage of gay rights activist’s murder
PARIS — Investigators say they have obtained surveillance video that captured the fatal clash between skinheads and gay rights activist Clement Meric earlier this month.
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French mayor: ‘I will go to the gallows’ rather than marry same-sex couples
ARCANGUES, France — The mayor of Arcangues, a small city in southwestern France, said he refuses to officiate unions between gay couples despite passage of a national legalizing same-sex marriage.