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==Fight against AIDS== |
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For over 20 years, Jean-Luc Romero is an activist in the fight against AIDS. |
For over 20 years, Jean-Luc Romero is an activist in the fight against AIDS. |
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In May 2002, Jean-Luc Romero became the first French politician who revealed having AIDS.<ref>{{fr icon}} [http://www.civismemoria.fr/contribution/?module=contrib&contrib=934 Evénement : 1er homme politique à révéler sa séropositivité]</ref>; He is president and founder of the ELCS Association (Local Elected againt Aids : 13.000 local elected in this society), President of the Crips Ile-de-France and is a member of the National Council AIDS. |
In May 2002, Jean-Luc Romero became the first French politician who revealed having AIDS.<ref>{{fr icon}} [http://www.civismemoria.fr/contribution/?module=contrib&contrib=934 Evénement : 1er homme politique à révéler sa séropositivité]</ref>; He is president and founder of the ELCS Association (Local Elected againt Aids : 13.000 local elected in this society), President of the Crips Ile-de-France (an organization which aims at fighting aids in the Ile-de-France region and educating high school students). He is also a member of the National Council AIDS. |
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In 2004, he convinced the Prime Minister to declare AIDS as a national priority and became president of the group responsible for managing this year. |
In 2004, he convinced the Prime Minister to declare AIDS as a national priority and became president of the group responsible for managing this year. |
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Revision as of 11:28, 17 March 2014
Jean-Luc Romero (born June 30, 1959 at Béthune, Pas-de-Calais) is a French politician, writer and NGO leader.
Biography
Since 1986, Romero is Parlement[clarification needed] assistant of Pierre-Rémy Houssin (from 1986 to 1997), Jean-Marie Demange (1997) and Guy Drut (from 1997 to 2000). Since 2001, he is solidarity director at Vigneux-sur-Seine (Essonne). Romero was outed as gay by the French magazine eM@le and subsequently sued them.[1]
Political Career
In May 2002, Jean-Luc Romero became the first French politician who revealed having AIDS.[2]
He is a former national Secretary of UMP about AIDS. He joined Socialist Party in December 2009[3] and was elected with Anne Hidalgo in Jean-Paul Huchon's campaign.
Fight for a dignified death
He is president of ADMD (association pour le Droit de Mourir dans la Dignité) which is a Right-To-Die-society, created in 1980 and reaching nearly 60.000 members today. ADMD is fighting for the right of every human being to decide when and how to die from the moment he/ she is about to lose his/her dignity according to his/her own perception. ADMD has brought about significant changes in the current end-of-life legislation. Its ultimate goal however is to achieve the legalization of euthanasia. He is a former member of the board of the World Federation of right to die societies (WFRtDS) who co-organized the 17th world conference about euthanasia in Paris.[4] He is the founder of the International Day for the Right to Die with Dignity on November 2nd.
Fight against AIDS
For over 20 years, Jean-Luc Romero is an activist in the fight against AIDS. In May 2002, Jean-Luc Romero became the first French politician who revealed having AIDS.[5]; He is president and founder of the ELCS Association (Local Elected againt Aids : 13.000 local elected in this society), President of the Crips Ile-de-France (an organization which aims at fighting aids in the Ile-de-France region and educating high school students). He is also a member of the National Council AIDS.
In 2004, he convinced the Prime Minister to declare AIDS as a national priority and became president of the group responsible for managing this year.
Since 2006, Jean-Luc Romero began a great movement against restrictions on freedom of movement and settlement imposed by many states of the United Nations for people living with HIV / AIDS in 2014, 41 countries impose such discrimination. A first success is achieved in January 2010 with the change of legislation in the United States. This development was followed by another equally important: China now allows people living with HIV to enter its territory.
Fight fot equal rights
He fought vigourously to have homophobic remarks as severely punished as racist ones. He wrote the books « On m’ a volé ma vérité » (my truth was stolen from me) and « Homopoliticus , comme ils disent » (Homopoliticus, as they say) about this issue. As president of Crips Ile-de–France, he fights homophobia and hiv-aids phobia amongst the young. He is elected gay of the year 2011 by the readers of Yagg.fr. He fought also for the legalization of marriage for all and He married Christophe Michel, 27 September 2013 at the town hall of the 12th arrondissement of Paris. The ceremony was presided over by the mayor of Paris, Bertrand Delanoë.
Author of books
He has written many books amongst which the two last ones “Homopoliticus, comme ils disent” about the history of homosexuality in politics in France and the rest of the world since 50 years (which came out in May 2011) and « les Voleurs de Liberté » (the Freedom Thieves about a lifetime struggle, the legalization of euthanasia (first printed 2009 and new edition march 2012 at « L’ esprit Frappeur » with a preface by Noëlle Châtelet and a postface 2009-2012.
See also
Notes
- ^ [1]
- ^ Template:Fr icon Evénement : 1er homme politique à révéler sa séropositivité
- ^ http://www.lefigaro.fr/flash-actu/2009/12/07/01011-20091207FILWWW00461-regionalesromero-quitte-l-ump-pour-le-ps.php
- ^ Template:En icon World Euthanasia conference in Paris from October 30 to November 2, 2008
- ^ Template:Fr icon Evénement : 1er homme politique à révéler sa séropositivité
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