LGBT rights in France

Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 33. Chapters: LGBT political advocacy groups in France, LGBT rights activists from France, André Gide, Françoise d'Eaubonne, Amanda Lear, Pierre Seel, Roger Peyrefitte, Marc-André Raffalovich, Same-sex marriage in France, Pacte civil de solidarité, Didier Lestrade, Thierry Meyssan, Pierre Bergé, Monique Wittig, Michèle Causse, Daniel Guérin, Guy Hocquenghem, AGLA France, Yves Navarre, Jacques Teyssier, Noël Mamère, Caroline Fourest, Thierry Schaffauser, Cyril Collard, Christine Delphy, Appeal of Montpellier, GayLib, Joseph Doucé, Henri Caillavet, Homosexualités et Socialisme, Inter-LGBT. Excerpt: Amanda Lear (originally Tapp, born November 18, 1939 or 1946, in British Hong Kong) is a French singer, lyricist, composer, painter, TV presenter, actress and novelist. Lear began her career as a fashion model in the mid-1960s and was also the muse of Spanish surrealist painter Salvador Dalí. She first came to the public attention as the model on the cover of Roxy Music's album For Your Pleasure in 1973. She was a multimillion selling Disco Queen in the mid-1970s to the early 1980s mainly in Continental Europe and Scandinavia with hits such as "Queen of Chinatown", "Follow Me", "Enigma (Give a Bit of Mmh to Me)" and "Fashion Pack". Lear has sold 15 million albums and over 25 million singles worldwide. In the mid-1980s she positioned herself as one of the leading media personalities in mainland Europe, especially in Italy and in France where she hosted many long-running TV shows. Since the 1990s her time has been divided between music, television, writing and movies as well as pursuing her career as a painter. Currently she lives in Saint-Étienne-du-Grès near Avignon in the south of France. Lear's early life is unclear, including her birthdate, gender, names and nationalities of her parents, and the location of upbringing. Raised speaking French and English, she learned German, Spanish and Italian in her teens, which she used in her professional life. According to Lear's official biography she relocated to Paris having finished elementary school, to study at Académie des Beaux-Arts, before joining St. Martins School of Art in London in 1964. Lears alleged transsexual background has been commented upon in the media and in the biographies of those who recall knowing Lear earlier in her life. "April Ashley, the transsexual who had once been George Jamieson, a Liverpudlian seaman, has long claimed she worked with Lear in the Fifties at Le Carrousel, a transvestite revue in Paris. In her book, April Ashley's Odyssey , she recalls a man named Alain Tapp, whose stage-name w