It's claimed one five gay French men are supportg Mare Le Pen of the Front Natnal this Sunday's electn.
Contents:
- HOW MARE LE PEN IS WNG FRANCE’S GAY VOTE
- 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
- WHY GAY FRENCH MEN ARE VOTG FAR RIGHT
- FROM MARE LE PEN TO THERA MAY, WHY DO WHE GAY MEN NTUE TO SUPPORT RIGHT-WG NDIDAT?
- AHEAD OF HOMOPHOBIA TRIAL, JEAN-MARIE LE PEN OUT OF THE CLOSET ABOUT GAYS
- NOT THE ONN: MOSW BANS GAY PRI FOR NEXT 100 YEARS
- COMMENT MARE LE PEN A FA LA UR X GAYS
- GAY MOSW MOSW CY GUI
HOW MARE LE PEN IS WNG FRANCE’S GAY VOTE
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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.
THIS IS HOW FRANCE’S NATNALIST PARTY IS WNG GAY SUPPORT
A week before the attack on Charlie Hebdo, France’s leadg gay magaze, Têtu, announced the wner of s annual bety ntt. His name was Matthi Chartraire, and he was 22, doe-eyed and six-packed, wh perfectly groomed hair, stubble and eyebrows. A p-up every way — until he started talkg. To the anger of many * marine le pen gay rights *
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.
DON’T BE FOOLED BY MARE LE PEN’S GAY PANRG—HER PARTY IS AWFUL FOR LGBTQ EQUALY
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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.
WHY GAY FRENCH MEN ARE VOTG FAR RIGHT
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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.
FROM MARE LE PEN TO THERA MAY, WHY DO WHE GAY MEN NTUE TO SUPPORT RIGHT-WG NDIDAT?
Far-right Natnal Front party founr Jean-Marie Le Pen, who go on trial on June 13 for sultg homosexuals and cg homophobia, told a French gay magaze this week that he is not homophobic… * marine le pen gay rights *
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. 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.
AHEAD OF HOMOPHOBIA TRIAL, JEAN-MARIE LE PEN OUT OF THE CLOSET ABOUT GAYS
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.
NOT THE ONN: MOSW BANS GAY PRI FOR NEXT 100 YEARS
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. But his assertn that Chartraire do not stand for the gay muny overlooks a trend that has been acceleratg over the last : French gay votersare fallg for the Front Natnal’s lear, Mare Le Pen.
COMMENT MARE LE PEN A FA LA UR X GAYS
The Borx gay scene has dwdled sce the attacks, but McCarthy says that he, like Ltra, is alarmed at the way that asslts by a few Arabs have created a major polemil opposn between gays and Mlims. That gay men now feel fortable wh the Front Natnal is the rult of a liberate effort by s lear, Mare Le Pen, who has pursued a programme of toxifitn (the French term is ‘-diabolisatn’) ever sce she took ntrol of the party 2011.
GAY MOSW MOSW CY GUI
Although Hollan phed through the legalisatn of gay marriage last year, many left-wg gay voters were disappoted that he failed to give the bill his personal support until the last mute. “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. 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.