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French Gay Activists Call Off Marriage Equality Hunger Strike After 20 Days |
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 Three gay activists on Saturday called off their hunger strike after 20 days, when doctors warned them that they were risking permanent damage to their health.
Based in France, they had been refusing food since June 25, to draw attention to the criminalization of homosexuality in more than 70 countries and to pressure the French government to honor its pledge to bring a resolution for the universal decriminalization of same-sex behaviour to the United Nations General Assembly.
The three hunger-strikers were Louis-Georges Tin, the founder of the International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia (IDAHO); Alexandre Marcel, vice president of IDAHO-France; and Usaam Mukwaya, a gay Ugandan refugee who had been arrested and tortured in his home country because of his sexuality.
Authored By Peter Tatchell - See the Full Story at SDGLN
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July 16, 2012
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