Paris To Declare Itself An ‘LGBTQI+ Freedom Zone’

In a symbolic gesture to embrace sexual and gender minorities, the city of Paris marked International Day against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia by announcing it will declare itself an "LGBTQI+ freedom zone". It also hosted the Global Conference on the rights and inclusion of LGBTI+ youth.
 
Paris city hall said on Monday that it wanted to show "its strong international support for [LGBTQI+] people under threat" and would present a motion to declare the entire capital a "LGBTQI+ freedom zone" at the next Paris council meeting in early June.

The initiative follows in the footsteps of the European Parliament which adopted a similar resolution in March in reaction to the "LGBT ideology-free zones" declared by a hundred local authorities in Poland.