Tag Archives: Paris

The group wanted to march down the Champs-Élysées next week just a couple of days before the US Supreme Court hears its cases. The cops said “Non!” and a Paris court agrees. Translation of the above by JMG reader David: “Paris administrative tribunal has rejected the #Manifpourtous request to cancel the police prefecture’s ban.” Judicial tyranny! (#Manifpourtous means “demo for …

JMG reader David sends us his translation of the latest press release from the organizers of France’s anti-gay marriage movement. The “Manif Pour Tous” has duly noted the Paris Police Prefecture’s order, dated March 18, 2013 prohibiting our march on the Champs-Élysées planned for this March 24th. The order also prohibits demonstrators from entering Place de la Concorde, Place de …

Citing security concerns, the Paris police department has denied the permit of anti-gay groups who planned to march down the Champs-Elysées in a massive rally against same-sex marriage.  A previous such march in Paris drew an estimated 300,000 protesters earlier this year. In a statement published on Thursday, the Paris police said that they had notified protest organisers in the …

Last month openly gay Paris Mayor Betrand Delanoe a levied a €100,000 repair fine against the organizers of a massive anti-gay marriage rally in order to cover damage done to the landscaping at a city park.  In response, attendees are sending Delanoe an avalanche of tiny checks because it will cost Paris more than the amount of each payment to …

Before the beginning of today’s marriage equality debate in the French National Assembly, this happened: “A mom and a dad, it’s elementary”, “No to fictional filiation”, “Having a child is not a right”, said the banners. “This is freedom of expression,” explained Frigide Barjot from anti-gay wedding collective Manif Pour Tous. “We demand freedom for MPs to vote their conscience. …

NOM has been up-fudging the numbers of that Paris march for weeks. Today they added 700,000 to their January 13th claim, presumably in response to yesterday’s pro-gay march.

There was a great turnout today for the same-sex marriage march in Paris. Demonstrators waved banners emblazoned with phrases like “Equality of rights is not a threat” and chanted: “What do you want? Equality! When do you want it? Now!” Another placard showed a version of the French government’s seal, but with two Mariannes kissing, and under the words, “Liberty, …

Openly gay Paris Mayor Betrand Delanoe has a levied a €100,000 repair fine against the organizers of Sunday’s massive anti-gay marriage rally.  Gay Star News reports: The money is to cover damages by the protestors to the grass on the Champs-de-Mars where they congregated at the end of their “March For All.” But it has been criticized, with some accusing …

As expected, tens of thousands of Catholics and Muslims marched through the streets of Paris today in opposition to the same-sex marriage bill proposed by President Francois Hollande and his Socialist Party. Organisers reserved five high-speed trains and 900 buses to bring protesters from provincial towns to the capital, some before dawn, to join Parisians and display the extent of …

A coalition of French Islamic groups has signed on to join the Catholic Church in a “major” anti-gay marriage rally to take place in Paris on Sunday. Leaders of almost all main faiths in France have spoken out against the law, but not called on their followers to march in Sunday’s demonstration to avoid giving the opposition campaign an overly …

Reuters reports on yesterday’s rally: Police said about 60,000 demonstrators turned out, fewer than the 100,000 who protested last month against the law due to be passed by mid-2013. Paris’s gay mayor Bertrand Delanoe joined the march along with several other left-wing politicians. Marching along to drumbeats and jazz music, the protesters waved rainbow flags and held up signs saying …

France’s new president is looking on approvingly….

There’s one for New York City too.

No subtitles needed, really.

If all the people in the world had to live in one city, here’s how big that city would be based on the population densities of six examples.

Maxime writes from Paris this morning: It was originally supposed to take place in front of Notre Dame de Paris but Christian fundamentalist websites called in to “defend their faith against this provocation” by “AIDS bags”, “sodomites” and other homophobic insults. The websites called in for a violent answer so the organizers decided to change the location to place Saint …

The gays took to one of Paris’ central shopping districts this weekend for a mass kiss-in against homophobia. Sweet stuff.

That all-Muslim amateur soccer team in Paris refused for a second time to play the all-gay team, despite saying last week that they would. Here’s the result. So, just a few days after a French Muslim soccer team, Créteil Bébel, agreed to play a French gay soccer team, Paris Foot Gay (PFG), to quash allegations of homophobia, team Créteil Bébel …

Saying that the controversy was all just a misunderstanding, an all-Muslim amateur soccer team in Paris has announced that they will play the all-gay team after all. That decision came after the gay team said they considered the rejection to be homophobic and were considering pressing charges under French law. In a statement, Bebel director Zahir Belgharbi insisted there had …