An Anti-Gay-Marriage Tea Party, French Style? | The New Yorker

Contents:

• ANTI-GAY MARRIAGE PROTTERS RETURN TO STREETS OF PARIS
• AN ANTI-GAY-MARRIAGE TEA PARTY, FRENCH STYLE?
• FRENCH ANTI-GAY MARRIAGE PROTTERS MARCH TO REVIVE ISSUE BEFORE POLLS
• ANTI-GAY HATE ON THE RISE PARTS OF EUROPE, REPORT FDS
• GAY MARRIAGE IS PROTTED FRANCE
• ANTI-GAY MARRIAGE PROTTERS CLASH WH FEMISTS PARIS
• FRANCE'S FLAMBOYANT, SHIRTLS ANTI-GAY PROTTERS ARE EYEG THE TOUR FRANCE
• FIRST GAY MARRIAGE CELEBRATED FRANCE
• HUGE ANTI-GAY-MARRIAGE PROTT MARCH PARIS

ANTI-GAY MARRIAGE PROTTERS RETURN TO STREETS OF PARIS

“Today, France, we still nnot live and love eely jt as we are, ” said Joël Dmier, print of the associatn SOS Homophobie.

AN ANTI-GAY-MARRIAGE TEA PARTY, FRENCH STYLE?

Still, SOS Homophobie believ that many victims of anti-LGBT acts do not dare e forward. In 2016, SOS Homophobie received 26 reports om people who said they had a homophobic, biphobic, or transphobic enunter wh jtice or law enforcement officials. By this is meant that an officer refed to characterize an asslt as homophobic a plat or to even file a plat, or that a law enforcement officer himself discrimated agast LGBT people.

SOS Homophobie’s report also shows a rrelatn between bat over equal rights and the crease of anti-LGBT acts.

While a majory of the French populatn is favor of allowg same-sex upl to get married and adopt children, opponents of LGBT rights are a “vol mory, ” and are pecially active on social media, where prosecutn for homophobic statements remas difficult to rry out. Tens of thoands of protters took to the streets of Paris on Sunday to monstrate agast gay marriage and to ll for ndidat next year's printial electn to support "tradnal fay valu". Anti-gay marriage protters on the streets of Paris.

FRENCH ANTI-GAY MARRIAGE PROTTERS MARCH TO REVIVE ISSUE BEFORE POLLS

Protters held signs wh slogans such "A father and a mother -- 's heredary" as they ma their way towards the Troro nurse ont of the Eiffel said up to 24, 000 people took part while anisers put the number far target of their anger is the 2013 law legalisg same-sex marriage troduced by the then jtice mister Christiane protter attendg the march on Sunday, 72-year-old retired engeer Michel Delne, said: "I am agast gay marriage and agast the crappy lears who oppose the power of the people. The day after the monstratns, François Hollan’s Socialist ernment announced that would not be puttg forward new legislatn to make easier for gay upl to adopt children or have them wh the help of surrogate mothers. Hollan’s gay-rights retreat was a major victory for La Manif Pour To (The Prott for Everyone), the group that has anized a seri of massive protts sce November, 2012, when the ernment first troduced the gay-marriage law.

ANTI-GAY HATE ON THE RISE PARTS OF EUROPE, REPORT FDS

La Manif Pour To, which was created to prott gay marriage, not only öpted the term manif but stole the appealg language of the law self, which was lled “Le Mariage Pour To” (“Marriage for Everyone”). Social issu—fay, marriage, sexualy, homosexualy—have sudnly bee highly charged France, but they play out so differently that they illtrate what’s distctive about France—and the U. ”La Manif Pour To has not objected to France’s civil-unn law, known as PACS, passed 1999, which allows gay—and heterosexual—upl to ga legal regnn for their unns whout marryg.

“It is perfectly rrect that gay upl should have legal protectn, ” Albéric Dumont, another of the movement’s founrs and a law stunt Paris, told me by phone. Arguably, the lser stat of PACS unns has done more to weaken the stutn of marriage than any number of gay weddgs uld.

GAY MARRIAGE IS PROTTED FRANCE

The new gay-marriage law, which has allowed seven thoand gay upl (many of them middle-aged) to marry, would hardly seem to be France’s biggt Manif Pour To supporters talk ls about fendg tradnal marriage than about their opposn to the very ia of gay and lbian people havg children. PARIS (Rters) - Thoands of opponents of gay marriage took to the streets of Paris on Sunday to fend their visn of fay valu, hopg to revive the issue polil bat ahead of next year’s printial 24, 000 people took part the monstratn, police said, far fewer than the several hundreds of thoands the group “Demo for All” mobilized 2012 and 2013 an unexpectedly strong show of opposn om nservativ, pecially Roman Socialist ernment legalized same-sex marriage, which lled “Marriage for All”, said 13 people were arrted after a scuffle at the prott, cludg six topls women om the activist group Femen.

ANTI-GAY MARRIAGE PROTTERS CLASH WH FEMISTS PARIS

“Even if the gay marriage law has been adopted, we will ntue the prott to show that is not good and we want to be repealed. Opn polls show that a majory France do not want the gay marriage law to be repealed. Demonstrators also spoke out agast surrogate motherhood, which gay upl uld e to create a marriage proponents phed for surrogacy to also be allowed the 2013 law, but the ernment cid not to revoke the current ban after seeg the unexpected protts that “Demo for All” staged durg the heated bate over the Print Nilas Sarkozy, who is trailg rival Ala Juppe the race to head the nservative Republins party ticket 2017 electn, said on Sunday he would not repeal same-sex marriage if he were returned to the Elysee Palace.

Even as Europe’s lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and tersex (LGBTI) muny enjoys a high pot legally enshred human rights, s members face growg threats posed by polil hate speech and vlence, acrdg to a report released Tuday by an ternatnal queer rights annual review by the European arm of the Internatnal Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Associatn found that the picture for sexual and genr mori remas “plex, ” particularly bee Europe’s reputatn as a bean for equaly is a “surface imprsn that do not tell a plete or accurate story.

FRANCE'S FLAMBOYANT, SHIRTLS ANTI-GAY PROTTERS ARE EYEG THE TOUR FRANCE

”Poland’s polil turn toward homophobia was one of the most dramatic velopments of 2019, acrdg to the report. On the other hand, Poland’s opposn party tapped a gay man to n for print Poland’s anti-gay turn received more media attentn, ILGA-Europe found "growg official hate speech" on behalf of ernment officials several other European untri as well: Albania, Andorra, Azerbaijan, Belas, Bosnia and Herzea, Bulgaria, Cyps, the Czech Republic, Fland, Geia, Greece, Hungary, Kosovo, Portugal, Slovakia, Spa and Turkey.

Turkey, which banned gay pri march 2015, prosecuted people last year for vlatg the ban. The “growg prence of anti-LGBTQ, anti-genr and neo-Nazi protters public plac” like pri paras is raisg eedom of associatn issu across the ntent, acrdg to the touched upon the growg “pan-European phenomenon” of anti-gay vlence by focg on the Uned Kgdom’s jt-pleted parture om the European Unn.

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FIRST GAY MARRIAGE CELEBRATED FRANCE

Etienne Lrent/European Prsphoto AgencyMay 26, 2013PARIS — Thoands of French marched on Sunday, France’s Mother’s Day, to prott the recent legalizatn of gay marriage. Separately, the French police said they were ntug to search for the man rponsible for stabbg a uniformed soldier the neck on Saturday eveng, an act that may have been spired by the murr of a Brish soldier last week retaliatn for Wtern ary terventn Mlim anti-gay-marriage march occurred as a recent poll shows many French are losg patience wh the protts agast the “marriage for all” law that passed May 18. There was a separate, smaller march by nservative general, the monstratns agast the law have clud a batn of relig lears and their followers, opposed to gay marriage on relig grounds, and more nservative French, many of them Roman Catholic, who believe that gay upl should have equal rights, but wh an stutn other than marriage.

Many also object to the new abily of gay married upl to adopt children, argug that a child should be raised by a man and a the prelu to the prott, on Saturday night, 59 people were arrted after chag themselv to metal barris on the Champs-Élysé. ”Wh much advance publicy, the first gay marriage is supposed to take place Wednday Montpellier, sometim lled the San Francis of se of the wound soldier, Pfc. A versn of this article appears prt on, Sectn A, Page 8 of the New York edn wh the headle: Marriage By Gays Is Protted In France.

That man is part of Hommen, the homoerotic anti-gay group France, and they jt might have their eye on makg a bigger statement at the Tour you've been followg the gay rights movement France, you might know that on April 23 the untry voted to legalize same-sex marriage and the first ceremoni were nducted a month after on May 18, after a brief challenge.

HUGE ANTI-GAY-MARRIAGE PROTT MARCH PARIS

A few months ago, no one would have predicted such a negative, nasty and damagg bate, " The Guardian's Roma Burrell that sets the table for Hommen, whose slogan agast gay marriage primarily foc on children beg adopted by gay parents: "L femm et l enfants d'abord. Lol reports say that an anti-gay prott is beg worked out, and this Facebook page (wh over 9, 000 ve and nearly 800 pledged atten) is tryg to get people to e out and hijack the tour's verage to publicize their anti-gay views.

The Hommen prott at the French Open me days ahead of Rsia's State Duma votg unanimoly (434-0) to make "gay propaganda" illegal this week. Gay propaganda, by Rsia's terms, n be somethg as benign as lettg a child know that gay people do fact exist.

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