SAME SEX MARRIAGE Flashcards
L’orientation sexuelle/
sexual orientation
La majorité sexuelle/
the age of consent
Un travesti
a transvestite
Se déclarer ouvertement homosexuel/
to come out (of the closet)
Etre marie, se marier avec qqn/
to be, get married to sb
Un PACS, une union civile/
a civil partnership, a civil
union, a domestic partnership
Légaliser, interdire le mariage homosexuel/
to legalize,
ban gay marriage
Avoir des opinions progressistes/
to have liberal views
Une question controversée
/ a hot-button issue
Les partisans du mariage homosexuel/
advocates,
supporters, proponents of gay marriage
Les opposants aux mariage homoseuxel/
opponents,
critics of gay marriage
Etre contre le mariage homosexuel/
to oppose gay
marriage , to be opposed to gay-marriage
Etre pour le mariage homosexuel
/ to support gay
marriage
Des remarques homophobes/
homophobic remarks
L’homophobie/
homophobia
The Stonewall riots
The Stonewall riots that took place in the Greenwich Village’s neighborhood of New York City on june
28 1969 showed tho motivation for gay people to organize themselves and acquire rights by attacking
multiple times police officials.
Gene Robinson
The first gay bishop is Gene Robinson
dès
as early as
Le pape Benoit XVI par sa comparaison de la toleration des
gays a la destruction des forets tropicales a cause un scandale dans les communites gays.
Pope Benedict XVI caused wisepread outrage in the gay community when he compared toleration of
gays to the destruction of the rainforests.
