Tag Archives: France

FRANCE: Parliament Head Furiously Orders Protester Out Of Gallery Before Vote

Can we get a translation? And what the asshat was shouting?

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Tweet Of The Day – Frigide Barjot

Google Translate: “Is not it a problem that the passage of a law arouses much hatred and violence among its supporters?”  Unbelievable. (Via JMG reader TJ)

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Dejected Frigide Barjot Gets Heckled

And pushed around a little too. Veuillez installer Flash Player pour lire la vidéo (Tipped by JMG reader TJ)

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Marriage Gives Manif Pour Tous The Sadz

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French Papers React To Marriage Vote

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TODAY: Final French Marriage Vote, Police Place Water Cannons Outside Parliament
UPDATE: The Final Debate Has Begun
UPDATE II: Marriage PASSES 331-225!!!

Today at about 11:30AM New York City time, the French National Assembly will make the final legislative vote on same-sex marriage.  As the anti-gay protests have grown increasingly violent and especially in light of yesterday’s death threat against the president of the Assembly, police are taking “extraordinary” security measures. Paris police have stepped up security ahead of a final parliamentary …

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Hashtag Trending On French Twitter:
“Homosexuals Must Be Killed”

Gay Star News reports: A Twitter hashtag loosely translated as ‘Homosexuals must be killed’ is going viral before France’s National Assembly votes on gay marriage today (23 April). It is unknown where ‘Il Faut Tuer Les Homosexuels’ started from, but thousands of social networking users are tweeting about the trending topic. As Yagg.com points out, many are pointing to a …

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TONIGHT: Manif Pour Tous To Stage March On French National Assembly

The final vote is today.

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Another Gay-Bashing In France

France’s The Local reports that yet another gay-bashing has taken place as the vote to finalize the same-sex marriage bill approaches its final hours. A gay couple were attacked as they left a night club in the Mediterranean city of Nice at the weekend in the latest apparent homophobic attack in France. Raphaël Leclerc was punched and kicked after being …

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NOM Remains Silent On French Violence

Last week NOM president Brian Brown praised the “peaceful protests” of their partners in France’s increasingly violent anti-gay marriage movement, which has been supported by an in-person appearance by Brown himself.  NOM remains completely silent on the recent rash of brutal gay-bashings, gay bars attacks, riot police with tear gas and batons, children used as human shields, and now a …

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FRANCE: Riot Police Tear Gas Anti-Gay Marriage Protesters, Scuffle With Priest

At a Manif Pour Tous protest on Friday night, anti-gay activists battled French riot police who used tear gas and batons on some of the crowd. One of the protesters in the scuffle is reportedly a Catholic priest with the anti-semitic Society of St Pius X, who runs the church outside of which the melee occurred. A much longer non-embeddable …

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Gunpowder Mailed To French National Assembly President Claude Bartolone:
“You Wanted War And You’ve Got It”

Today French National Assembly president Claude Bartolone was mailed a letter containing gunpowder.  The enclosed message demands that he cancel tomorrow’s vote on same-sex marriage and warns: “You wanted war and you’ve got it.” The Local reports: The one-page letter, signed by “an intermediary of law enforcement,” warns Bartolone that “our methods are more radical and more swift than protests”, …

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New From Manif Pour Tous

The music is Bound To Ravage by Sweden’s Diamond Dogs. One presumes that is supposed to be a warning to us. Or something.

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FRANCE: Thousands Of Gays And Allies Counter-Protest In Support Of Marriage

Clip recap: Thousands gathered on Sunday at the Plac de la Bastille in Paris to show their support for a new bill to legalise gay marriage. The gathering took place at the same time as opponents of the legislation marched towards the National Assembly. France’s LGBT community accuse those who oppose the law of being homophobic. They say a nation …

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FRANCE: Tens Of Thousands Attend Anti-Gay Marriage Protest In Paris

France’s anti-gay Manif Pour Tous is live-streaming today’s marriage protest. Via Reuters: Chanting “We don’t want your law, Hollande!”, some 50,000 protesters massed behind a banner reading: “All born of a Mum and a Dad” and said it was undemocratic to bring about such a fundamental social change without holding a referendum. Hastily organized after the law’s passage was sped …

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FRANCE: Anti-Gay Marriage Activists Plan Another Big Rally For Tomorrow

Organizers of France’s increasingly violent anti-gay marriage movement are urging supporters to take to the streets tomorrow in advance of what may be the bill’s finalization on Tuesday. “There are only a few days left and we are not going to abandon the streets now,” one of the organisers of Sunday’s demonstration, Alberic Dumont, told AFP. Tens of thousands are …

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Fear Not: A French Poem On Marriage

You don’t have to speak French to enjoy this. Translation. (Tipped by JMG reader Mark)

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French MPs Fistfight Over Gay Marriage

Members of France’s National Assembly came to blows yesterday as the finalization of  same-sex marriage was debated. Via Pink News: On Friday, the lower house of French National Assembly almost mirrored violent protests outside, around the issue of equal marriage, as MPs came to the end of the capped 25-hour debate around the bill which would allow equal marriage, and …

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NOM’s Brian Brown Cheers France’s “Peaceful” Anti-Gay Marriage Protesters

As violent anti-gay French protesters commit brutal bashings, battle riot police using toddlers as human shields,  and smash the windows of gay bars, Brian Brown writes on NOM’s blog: In France spontaneous peaceful demonstrations by young people protesting their government’s determination to ignore the voice of the people is causing headaches across the country. For the government, this is becoming …

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FRANCE: Anti-Marriage Rally Turns Violent, Protesters Attack Police & Reporters

French President Francois Hollande today issued a statement denouncing the violence that took place last night after anti-gay marriage protesters attacked police and journalists.  Via The Local: “Homophobic acts, violent acts have been committed. The right to protest is recognised by our constitution and accepted by the French. But no protest must degenerate,” Hollande said. Several people were detained for …

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