libération homosexuelle, which organized film viewings and journal publications. 1979 – the Euro-Mediterranean Summer Universities for Homosexuals are established, leading to the establishment in the same year of CUARH. 1981 – On April 4, CUARH organized the largest demonstration for the reform of the age of consent in Paris, resulting in a promise by president François Mitterrand to do so the following year. 1982 – France equalizes the age of consent; CUARH leads the first pride parade in French history in Paris. 1983 – Composer Claude Vivier is attacked and later murdered in Paris as the result of a homophobic hate crime, becoming a cause célèbre across Europe. 1985 – France prohibits discrimination based on lifestyle (mœurs) in employment and services. 1990–1999 1998 – André Labarrère becomes first member of Parliament to come out as gay. 1999 – Pacte civil de solidarité legalizes a form of domestic partnership; the organizing committee for Gay Pride in Paris is dissolved due to high amounts of debt, and replaced with Inter-LGBT. 21st century 2011 – A bill to legalize same-sex marriage in France is defeated in conservative (UMP) majority National Assembly. 2013 – Despite protests by anti-gay marriage groups, the law to legalize same-sex marriage is voted by the National Assembly and Senate which currently has a Socialist (Francois Hollande) majority. The bill passed 331–225 in the National Assembly and 171–165 in the Senate. President Francois Hollande promulgated the bill, which was officially published on 18 May 2013. 2020 - The engineer Marie Cau is elected (in March) and inaugurated (in May, after a delay due to the COVID-19 pandemic) as mayor of Tilloy-lez-Marchiennes, making her the first openly transgender mayor in France. See also LGBT rights in France LGBT culture in Paris References