not pink news hopping on the hollande 27 train too 😭😭😭
On this day in 2013, the French Senate approved same-sex marriage, making France the fourteenth country in the world to legalise it.
The bill, which passed by 171 votes to 157, was signed into law by President François Hollande days later, coming into force on 18 May 2013. The first same-sex wedding in France took place just days after that in Montpellier.
The bill sparked some of the largest street protests France had seen in years, with hundreds of thousands of opponents, many mobilised by a campaign called La Manif Pour Tous.
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