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| Region | France |
| Issue | Censorship of LGBT issues |
| Status | Imprisonment as punishment |
| Start Date | Nov 25, 1960 |
| End Date | Dec 18, 1980 |
| Description | In 1960, France passed the Mirguet Amendment in Article 330 which doubled the charges for public indecency if involving people of the same sex compared to people of the opposite sex with imprisonment from six months to three years. The law would be repealed in 1980. |
| Sources | https://journals.openedition.org/cliowgh/1065# http://semgai.free.fr/contenu/archives/Assemblee_juillet_60/mirguet.html https://shs.cairn.info/journal-clio-women-gender-history-2015-2-page-99?lang=en&tab=texte-integral https://www.deanza.edu/faculty/mendozasherwin/ewrt1bwinter2014/Gunther.pdf |
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| Status | Imprisonment as punishment |
| Start Date | Nov 25, 1960 |
| End Date | Dec 18, 1980 |
| Description | In 1960, France passed the Mirguet Amendment in Article 330 which doubled the charges for public indecency if involving people of the same sex compared to people of the opposite sex with imprisonment from six months to three years. The law would be repealed in 1980. |
| Sources | https://journals.openedition.org/cliowgh/1065# http://semgai.free.fr/contenu/archives/Assemblee_juillet_60/mirguet.html https://shs.cairn.info/journal-clio-women-gender-history-2015-2-page-99?lang=en&tab=texte-integral https://www.deanza.edu/faculty/mendozasherwin/ewrt1bwinter2014/Gunther.pdf |