Qutns LGBT : Mare Le Pen, soutien du lobby anti-gay

Contents:

• PRéSINTIELLEEN SOURDE SUR L QUTNS LGBT, MARE LE PEN RTE UN SOUTIEN DU LOBBY ANTI-GAY
• THIS IS HOW FRANCE’S NATNALIST PARTY IS WNG GAY SUPPORT
• DON’T BE FOOLED BY MARE LE PEN’S GAY PANRG—HER PARTY IS AWFUL FOR LGBTQ EQUALY
• COMMENT MARE LE PEN A FA LA UR X GAYS
• WHY GAY FRENCH MEN ARE VOTG FAR RIGHT

PRéSINTIELLEEN SOURDE SUR L QUTNS LGBT, MARE LE PEN RTE UN SOUTIEN DU LOBBY ANTI-GAY

PARIS — Far-right French printial Mare Le Pen has a simple a msage she wants to get across to the untry’s gay muny: Cast a vote for her Sunday’s printial electns bee she and her party will protect them om Islamist vlence. It’s a tough sell for Le Pen, whose platform oppos same-sex marriage and adoptn and whose father — who created the party she now leads — has lled homosexualy a “blogil anomaly” and said those wh HIV should be hoed “AIDS-atoriums.

THIS IS HOW FRANCE’S NATNALIST PARTY IS WNG GAY SUPPORT

The outreach to France’s LGBTQ voters is another way which Le Pen, currently a distant send to centrist ontnner Emmanuel Macron, is tryg to brg Amerin-style inty polics to France as she works to overe her party’s history of xenophobia, anti-Semism, and homophobia. Durg Wednday night’s unually nasty bate wh Macron, Le Pen said her opponent was backed by a French Mlim anizatn that she acced of holdg nferenc featurg speakers who exprs “hatred of Jews” and “hatred of homosexuals. In an April YouTube vio, she said has held events featurg a Mlim cleric who has spoken out “ favor of rporal punishment, the ath penalty for homosexuals, and the assassatn of Jews.

It’s not jt rhetoric: Le Pen has also surround herself wh three high-level gay advisers, cludg her right-hand man, Florian Philippot, who is often intified as the archect of her effort to remake her party’s image, and Sébastien Chenu, who was a former foundg member of a gay rights anizatn lled GayLib. Amerin fantasi about French open-mdns toward all thgs sexual asi, a vol mory of French voters are eply unfortable wh the advancements gay men and lbians have ma the past few years. Legal domtic partnership was available to gay men and lbians — as well as heterosexual upl — sce 1999, but marriage equaly the historilly Catholic untry was far harr to achieve.

DON’T BE FOOLED BY MARE LE PEN’S GAY PANRG—HER PARTY IS AWFUL FOR LGBTQ EQUALY

The issue is so important to nservative voters that printial ndidate François Fillon ran hard to the right on LGBTQ issu, promisg to roll back the law grantg marriage equaly and, ccially, adoptn rights to gay men and lbians. He supports the law givg gay men and lbians the right to marry and adopt, but he has been th far relatively quiet on remag issu — like surrogacy and assisted reproductive technology for gay upl, which remas illegal France, and the right of gay men to donate blood. He also angered the LGBTQ muny back  Febary, when he tried to extend an olive branch to the anti-gay crowd France by sayg he unrstood they felt “huiated” when same-sex marriage passed.

6 percent of married gay men voted for her Natnal Front party regnal electns, but as BuzzFeed not, “that bloc generally skews olr and more nservative than the LGBT populatn as a whole. The service, the elr Le Pen said, was a tribute “more to the homosexual than the police officer, ” addg that “stutnalized gay marriage and exalted a public way, and that shocked me.

Cathere Michd, a Paris uncil member who directs the gay rights group GayLib, said Le Pen’s platform mak clear “ black and whe that she will roll back some of the rights, protectns, and marriage. La pér où elle éta "radilement opposée à l'adoptn s enfants par l upl homosexuels", puis son programme présintiel 2017 promettant d'abroger le mariage pour to et d'empêcher l'ouverture la PMA x upl femm.

COMMENT MARE LE PEN A FA LA UR X GAYS

Sur la qutn la lutte ntre l'homophobie à l'éle et la sensibilisatn s élèv x qutns d'inté genre et d'orientatn sexuelle, Mare Le Pen chante avec l nservatrs homophob to pays. "Laissons l mrs tranquill", a-t-elle asi déclaré pour jtifier, en ju rnier, l'adoptn en Hongrie la loi terdisant purement et simplement la représentatn upl homos dans l livr, l pubs, ou l films diffés à la télé avant 22 hr. “What’s happeng bars, pecially when people have a uple drks, when they are among iends, you n hear that they’re not aaid to voice opns that for a long time were reprsed wh the gay muny, ” said Didier Ltra, founr of Act Up France and thor of the book Why Gays Turned Right.

WHY GAY FRENCH MEN ARE VOTG FAR RIGHT

The founr of a gay rights group si France’s major center-right party — now known as the Republin Party — Chenu ma headl when he joed the Natnal Front 2014 and now heads the party’s mtee for the entire north of France.

Although there is a powerful social nservative wg of the party, he wasn’t worried, bee he was assured they were the people Laroze knew who were close to Florian Philippot, the party’s hight-rankg gay lear, told him: “Don’t worry, there are two factns and that [social nservative] one is mor, ” Laroze said. ” But the fact that he remaed one of the party’s most powerful members sent a signal that there was a certa tolerance for gay people wh the Natnal Front has always been somethg of a fay bs, and the social nservative factn’s brightt star is Mare Le Pen’s 27-year-old niece, Marn Maréchal-Le Pen. The group is lled La Manif Pour To, or “Prott for All, ” a play on the French term for marriage equaly, “le mariage pour to” — marriage for immediately beme an onle spegoat for those angry about gay lears the party.

“Another mn, ” tweeted someone else, g a term wh a nnotatn like “fairy” that Philippot’s opponents have ed as an ephet agast a supposed “gay lobby” they ntend he has built around anonymo attacks might have been easy to shg off, Laroze said, but he was gettg more ser heat si the party behd the said the print of the Marianne Collective stunt anizatn showed him a text msage om Marn Maréchal-Le Pen rmg him that Laroze was now unwele her part of France.