Senator PS Hussein Bourgi will table a bill on Saturday providing compensation for people convicted of homosexuality between 1942 and 1982, he announced this Wednesday, on the eve of a trip by Elisabeth Borne to Orleans on this subject.
Forty after the law of August 4, 1982 which definitively decriminalized homosexuality in France, the Prime Minister will visit Thursday in Orleans the LGBT + reception center GAGL 45.
Senator Bourgi indicated that he had chosen to table his bill on August 6, “a highly symbolic date since it corresponds to the 80th anniversary of the entry into force of the Vichy provisions repressing homosexuality”.
“Tens of thousands of people sentenced”
The Vichy regime had introduced discrimination between heterosexual relations - the sexual majority then being fixed at 15 years - and homosexual relations, penalized if one of the partners was a minor.
At the time, the majority was 21 years old.
Discrimination remained in force when the age of majority was lowered to 18 in 1974, before the left repealed it in 1982 and aligned sexual majority at 15, regardless of the sex of the partners.
“Between 1942 and 1982, several tens of thousands of people were sentenced,” he recalls.
The text has already been co-signed by more than twenty PS senators, including Loiret senator Jean-Pierre Sueur and Paris senators Marie-Pierre de La Gontrie and Rémi Féraud.
It will be proposed from Thursday for the signature of the other political groups.
The bill would now only concern 150 to 200 people, according to Hussein Bourgi.
The text echoes a column published in Têtu on June 15, on the initiative of several associations for the defense of LGBT rights, and signed in particular by Michel Chomarat, himself convicted of homosexuality in 1977.
