Hussein Bourgi

Hussein Bourgi (born October 5, 1973, in Dakar) is a French Politician and Senator for the Hérault department. Bourgi was born in Dakar, Senegal, he is of Lebanese origin. In 1992, Bourgi moved to Montpellier to study law. He later became president of the local National Union of Students of France – Independent and Democratic in 1993 and became a member of the Young Socialists Bourgi became a member of the Montpellier Women's Rights Vigilance Committee and Montpellier Lesbian and Gay Pride in 1995 and 1997 respectively. In 1997, he co-founded the Collectif contre l'homophobie (Collective Against Homophobia) which he became president of two years later. Since 2005, Bourgi has been vice-president of the Réseau d'aide aux victimes d'agression et de discrimination (Assault and Discrimination Support Network) who assist victims of violence and discrimination against LGBTQ people. He was elected federal secretary of the Socialist Party in Hérault in 2012. And became a Regional Councillor of Occitania in the 2015 election. In the 2020 French Senate election in Hérault, Bourgi was placed on the top of the list of the Socialist Party and was elected with 22% of the vote. In November 2023, Bourgi presented a bill in the Senate that would allow for the rehabilitation and compensation of people convicted of homosexuality in France between 1942 and 1982.