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On This Gay Day | In 1982 France stops listing homosexuality as a disorder

On this day in 1982 France removed homosexuality from the official list of mental disorders, and equalised the age of consent. The World Health Organisation would not remove the mental health classification until 1990. The age of consent had been changed many times over the decades. In 1832 the age of consent was set at just 11 years, and it was raised to 13 years in 1863. In 1942 the Vichy government changed the age of consent to 15 years for h…
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