Legal gay and lesbian rights

Homosexuals were also persecuted under the Vichy Regime , despite there being no laws criminalizing homosexuality. Nevertheless, the same-sex marriage law has resulted in increased discussion about the previously taboo and neglected topic. In , national legislation was enacted to prohibit sexual orientation based discrimination in employment, housing and other public and private provisions of services and goods. Registered partnerships from the Netherlands , by contrast, are already recognised. Bush; Meg Whitman, the former chief executive of Hewlett-Packard; and Ken Mehlman, the former chairman of the Republican National Committee who helped lead a similar effort to recruit Republicans for an amicus brief in support of same-sex marriage. Key research findings from the FRA's previous work In and in the FRA published two important EU-wide reports: a comparative legal analysis of legislation and case law in all 27 Member States updated in and a comparative social analysis of the situation of LGBT people in various areas of social and economic life such as access to employment, education and health care. In general, do you think homosexuals should or should not have equal rights in terms of job opportunities? Many lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex LGBTI persons cannot fully enjoy their universal human rights.

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