While watching a left wing weekly political/entertainment TV show aired live from Paris. I was "choked" to hear one journalist mentioning homosexuality is no longer such a big subject in France. Since I moved to Montpellier, considered the second gay friendly city in France I was called Sale Pede (Dirty Faggot) many times. Homophobic slurs I haven;t heard in more then 25 years. Not once in the US have I heard a public homophobic insult. Mind you Wayne and I were told to "get a room" many times...I do understand too much public smooching straight or gay isn't appropriate...... I need to look into hate crimes in France, if it even exists...
Sunday, August 28, 2016
Public homophobia in France has barely changed since I moved to NYC in 1991
From m Facebook post....
While watching a left wing weekly political/entertainment TV show aired live from Paris. I was "choked" to hear one journalist mentioning homosexuality is no longer such a big subject in France. Since I moved to Montpellier, considered the second gay friendly city in France I was called Sale Pede (Dirty Faggot) many times. Homophobic slurs I haven;t heard in more then 25 years. Not once in the US have I heard a public homophobic insult. Mind you Wayne and I were told to "get a room" many times...I do understand too much public smooching straight or gay isn't appropriate...... I need to look into hate crimes in France, if it even exists...
While watching a left wing weekly political/entertainment TV show aired live from Paris. I was "choked" to hear one journalist mentioning homosexuality is no longer such a big subject in France. Since I moved to Montpellier, considered the second gay friendly city in France I was called Sale Pede (Dirty Faggot) many times. Homophobic slurs I haven;t heard in more then 25 years. Not once in the US have I heard a public homophobic insult. Mind you Wayne and I were told to "get a room" many times...I do understand too much public smooching straight or gay isn't appropriate...... I need to look into hate crimes in France, if it even exists...
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