This Is How France’s Natnalist Party Is Wng Gay Support

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. 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.

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

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.

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

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.

COMMENT MARE LE PEN A FA LA UR X GAYS

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.

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.

WHY GAY FRENCH MEN ARE VOTG FAR RIGHT

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. 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.