Tag Archives: Paris

Joining today’s anti-gay march in Paris was the Civitas Institute, a group that demands a Catholic theocracy for France.   According to Civitas, President Francois Hollande is a “puppet of the Freemasons.” They were followed by members of the extreme-right Nationalist Youth (above), a division of the National Front party, whose leader Marine Le Pen praised the Notre Dame suicide of …

Manif Pour Tous is claiming that one million turned out for today’s anti-gay march and rally against same-sex marriage. Paris police are putting the number at 200,000. Watch live here. UPDATE: Riot police are already on the scene and responding to protesters who have handcuffed themselves to barricades.

Yesterday a member of the Ukraine-based group FEMEN went topless at the altar of Notre Dame Cathedral and posed with a toy gun pointed at her mouth. The demonstration mocked the Tuesday suicide of anti-gay activist Dominque Venner at the same location. The message on the woman’s chest reads: “May fascist rest in hell.”

“I believe it is necessary to sacrifice myself to break with the lethargy that is overwhelming us. I am killing myself to awaken slumbering consciences.” – French anti-gay marriage activist Dominique Venner, from the suicide note found near his body at the altar of Notre Dame Cathedral. Venner’s suicide remains headline news across France today and the ruling Socialist Party …

Yesterday a well-known anti-gay marriage activist shot himself in the head at the altar of Notre Dame Cathedral hours after writing a blog post denouncing France’s legalization of same-sex marriage.  The French press, quite naturally, wants to know if the man was affiliated with Manif Pour Tous. Their leader Frigide Barjot says he was not: “This was a personal, isolated …

Far-right National Front party leader Marine Le Pen today applauded the actions of the anti-gay marriage activist who committed suicide this afternoon at the altar of Notre Dame Cathedral. The suicide was hailed as a political gesture by Marine Le Pen, leader of France’s far-right National Front. “All respect to Dominique Venner whose final, eminently political act was to try …

An elderly anti-gay activist shot himself in the head today after placing a letter on the altar of Paris’ famed Notre Dame Cathedral. It’s the first suicide in decades at the landmark site, Monsignor Patrick Jacquin told The Associated Press. “It’s unfortunate, it’s dramatic, it’s shocking,” Jacquin said. The motives for the suicide, and the contents of the man’s letter, …

Popular dance act The Young Professionals is backing the campaign to bring the 2018 Gay Games to Paris. (Tipped by JMG reader Bill)

France’s anti-gay Manif Pour Tous is staging yet another massive protest in Paris today.  Watch live here.

A Paris gay man was brutally beaten this weekend.  French gay rights groups say the recent protests against same-sex marriage have led to a rise in anti-gay physical attacks. Via The Local: According to [Wilfred] de Bruijn, he was attacked with his boyfriend in the 19th arrondissement of Paris on Saturday night simply because they were gay. France’s gay rights …

“The images of a police force ‘defending’ a city ruled by a gay Socialist mayor (Bertrand Delanoe), shooting tear gas at children, was worse than the imagery of Lt. Pike pepper-spraying college students in Davis, and worse, I would say, than the Jim Crow police force using dogs and water hoses on black children during the famous protests led by …

The Paris police are pissed at claims that they are biased against Manif Pour Tous for refuting their 1.4 million attendance figure at Sunday’s anti-gay march. Yesterday the police issued a press release. The estimation of the number of demonstrators at the “Manif Pour Tous”, held Sunday, March 24, has seen a series of claims challenging Police Prefecture neutrality. These …

The organizers of yesterday’s hate march in Paris are blanketing social media today with attendance claims almost five times that of the official estimate issued by the government. NOM has already trumpeted the 1.4M figure in press releases and on their blog. The second clip below, however, uses to aerial photographs that seem to prove otherwise. Expect Brian Brown to …

At yesterday’s hate march in Paris, 98 demonstrators were arrested after a riot police were forced to use tear gas and batons to keep them off the banned Champs-Elysees.  Some protesters were photographed hoisting toddlers onto their shoulders for use as human shields. Today organizers of the march are calling for the resignations of government officials. Via The Local: Christine …

Homocon Robert Oscar Lopez has been quite the busy self-hater, following up his anti-gay SCOTUS brief and anti-gay testimony before several state legislatures with an appearance at yesterday’s hate march in Paris.  Start the below clip at the 2:06:00 mark.

Via John Aravosis, here’s the caption for the above photo: “On met les enfants devant, on met les enfants devant.” TRANSLATION: “Put the kids in front, put the kids in front,” a father yells to other protesters, as he approached the police line with his three year old child perilously perched on his shoulders right after the police used tear …

The Local reports that today’s hate march in Paris turned violent when a group of protesters attempted to march down the off-limits Champs Elysees, prompting riot police to respond with tear gas. 100 to 200 frustrated protestors had reportedly attempted to breach a police barricade blocking them from entering the Champs Elysees. In response, riot police forcibly pushed them back …

It appears that a massive crowd showed up for today’s hate march in Paris.  Live streaming video of the ranting is here.

After losing their court battle to march down the Champs-Élysées, the anti-gay Demo For All group has posted the above revised demonstration route which tomorrow will converge from three directions at Les Sablons and finish at a stage at the Arc de Triomphe.  Here’s Demo For All’s Frigide Barjot and her accomplices announcing the changes. (Via JMG reader David)

From Paris, JMG reader David sends us the above bus ad from France’s anti-gay marriage group and notes the bad rhyme of their latest slogan, which translates as: “François, don’t mess with marriage. Take care of unemployment.”  Yesterday Manif Pour Tous lost their court battle to march down the Champs-Élysée. Today they issued a murky advisory on the new march …