Some political opponents of newly appointed French Prime Minister, Michel Barnier, and French media, have wasted no time in digging up that, in 1981, while serving in Parliament, he was among 155 lawmakers who voted against a law that decriminalizes homosexuality.
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| Newly appointed Prime Minister of France, Michel Barnier |
President of France, Emmanuel Macron, appointed Barnier to succeed Gabriel Attal, France’s first openly gay prime minister.
According to france24.com:
After France’s 1940 defeat by Germany in World War II, the Vichy government that collaborated with the country’s Nazi occupiers also introduced a law that specifically targeted homosexuality. With some adjustments, that law stayed on the books long after France’s liberation in 1944, all the way until 1982.
Over four decades, it was used to convict around 10,000 people, says Régis Schlagdenhauffen, a researcher at Paris’s School for Advanced Studies in Social Sciences.
