After granting same-sex couples domestic partnership benefits known as the civil solidarity pact, France became the thirteenth country in the world to legalise same-sex marriage in 2013.

The age of consent for same-sex sexual activity was altered more than once before being equalised in 1982 under President François Mitterrand. However, a lesser-known indecent exposure law that often targeted LGBT people was introduced in 1960 before being repealed twenty years later. Although same-sex sexual activity was a capital crime that often resulted in the death penalty during the Ancien Régime, all sodomy laws were repealed in 1791 during the French Revolution. Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender (LGBT) rights in France have been among some of the most progressive in the world. LGBT individuals and same-sex couples allowed to adopt Sexual orientation and gender identity protections ( see below) Transgender people allowed to change legal gender without surgery

Location of Metropolitan France (dark green)