Is France’s far-right flirtg wh the gay vote?

Contents:

• LéGISLATIV: CQ DéPUTéS GAY à L’ASSEMBLéE… ET TR RéSULTATS MARQUANTS
• IS FRANCE’S FAR-RIGHT FLIRTG WH THE GAY VOTE?
• LE CURIX PARURS SéBASTIEN CHENU, GAYLIB FRONT NATNAL
• IN CZECH REPUBLIC, GAY PORN PAYS THE BILLS
• REPORT: RUDY GAY WAIVED BY OKC THUNR

LéGISLATIV: CQ DéPUTéS GAY à L’ASSEMBLéE… ET TR RéSULTATS MARQUANTS

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IS FRANCE’S FAR-RIGHT FLIRTG WH THE GAY VOTE?

Fondatr Gaylib, Sébastien Chenu ava quté l’UMP pour le Front Natnal en 2014, grand dam s anciens maras (Lire L’associatn GayLib « nsternée » par le revirement Sébastien Chenu). Le FN Bno Bil, dont l’homosexualé t évoquée dans le livre Rose Mare, Marie-Pierre Bourgeois, a été élu dans le Pas Calais.

Autre figure gay du FN, son vice-présint, Florian Philippot, qui fut outé par Closer, a été battu en Moselle. France’s far-right Natnal Front party announced Friday that the founr of a proment gay rights group was jog s ranks and will be a future ndidate electns, a surprise move for a group that has long been lked to homophobic views. The print of the French far-right Front Natnal party, Mare Le Pen, giv a prs nference wh Sebastien Chenu, founr of the Gaylib gay rights movement.

LE CURIX PARURS SéBASTIEN CHENU, GAYLIB FRONT NATNAL

Party lear Mare Le Pen and Sébastian Chenu held a jot prs nference Paris to nfirm he was leavg the right-wg opposn Unn for a Popular Movement (UMP) party to work alongsi the anti-immigratn Natnal Front (FN), a former UMP general secretary, is mostly known France as one of the founrs of GayLib, a gay rights group that also scrib self as beg the centre-right of the polil spectm. “[Sarkozy] clared that he supported strikg down the gay marriage law, ” Chenu lamented reference to a November 15 speech ont of party members. At the same time, he qutng the former French print’s te nvictns on the subject: “he uld have said the exact oppose if he was speakg to a gay rights group.

IN CZECH REPUBLIC, GAY PORN PAYS THE BILLS

”Chenu’s cisn to jo Le Pen, based, at least part, on the hot-button issue of gay marriage, has neverthels nfound observers, sce the FN officially remas opposed to marriage-equaly legislatn France adopted 2013, monly referred to as the “Mariage pour to”, or Marriage for all, law.

Acrdg to GayLib, by tyg the knot wh the far-right group, Chenu had “betrayed all the polil valu and objectiv that he supposedly fend, particular the rights of the LGBT muny.

”“Sébastian Chenu is jog a polil platform that has publicly exprsed s rejectn of marriage and adoptn for same-sex upl, ” GayLib plored a Mare Le Pen’s ‘gay lobby’While Chenu’s ductn to the FN fay has raised eyebrows and drawn scty, also appears to nfirm Mare Le Pen’s tentn to distance the party om her firebrand father and FN founr, Jean-Marie Le Pen father is famo for labellg the Holot a “tail” the history of World War Two, but also for clarg on primetime TV 1984 that homosexualy was a “blogil and social anomaly”, and two years later remendg that HIV patients be nfed to “AIDS-atoriums. ”A few weeks later she ma another pronouncement at the party’s annual May 1 rally that rang out for many as an appeal for change wh the party: “Whether man or woman, heterosexual or homosexual, Christian, Jewish or Mlim, we are foremost French. ”Claims of rampant immigratn and secury have remaed the party’s key issu unr Mare Le Pen, but evince suggts that hate speech directed at Jews and homosexuals is off the agenda.

REPORT: RUDY GAY WAIVED BY OKC THUNR

French media, cludg far-right weekly Mute, have reported that an important number of men Mare Le Pen’s ner circle are gay, referrg to them as her “gay lobby. At the height of the anti-gay marriage protts France last year, Mare Le Pen was nowhere to be seen, even as other FN lears broke rank to take part the massive march.