Brigitte Macron, wife of French President Emmanual Macron, has been awarded €8,000 in damages after two women made claims ‘France’s first lady’ is transgender. Amandine Roy and Natacha Rey had posted a YouTube video in December 2021 alleging the French president’s wife had once been a man named Jean-Michel. The video subsequently went viral just […]
French athlete Dimitri Pavadé, who represented his home country at this year’s Paralympics in Paris, has come out as gay following his fourth-place finish in the men’s long jump. Pavadé, who won a silver medal at the 2020 Tokyo Games, returned to the men’s long jump T64 classification final, where he was just .06 metres […]
French media and some political opponents have cast aspersions on the appointment of new French Prime Minister Michel Barnier who, while serving in parliament in 1981, was among 155 lawmakers who voted against a law decriminalising homosexuality. Back in 1981, the 30-year-old lawmaker, who took over from Gabriel Attal, France’s first openly gay prime minister. […]
French President Emmanuel Macron is under fire after accusing the New Popular Front, a left-wing alliance built for the upcoming legislative elections, of promoting “completely crazy things, like going to the town hall to change your sex.” The New Popular Front’s manifesto includes a proposal to “authorise a [cost] free change of civil status before […]
Thousands of demonstrators protested in French cities on Sunday, May 5 at what they called an “offensive” against transgender rights after lawmakers drafted a proposed bill of law that is scheduled to be debated on May 28. Activists, left-wing members of parliament, trade unionists and young people rallied, chanting and brandishing placards calling for “health […]
The lower house of the French Parliament has passed a bill which will provide recognition and compensation for the estimated 10,000 people – mostly gay men – convicted of homosexuality between 1942 and 1982. The anti-gay law was originally introduced by the Vichy government during World War Two, when France was occupied by Nazi Germany. […]
French President Emmanuel Macron has appointed Education Minister Gabriel Attal as France’s first openly gay Prime Minister. Attal lives in a civil union with Stéphane Séjourné, a member of the European Parliament for La République En Marche. During his political career, Attal received antisemitic and homophobic hate speech on social media, which he once called “bucketloads […]
Toulouse’s Zakaria Aboukhlal and Nantes’ Mostafa Mohamed were omitted from the teamsheet for a French football league Ligue 1 clash between the two clubs on Sunday, May 14 after refusing to participate in a campaign against homophobia, which saw all teams in Ligue 1 and Ligue 2 wearing shirts with numbers in rainbow colours.
The All You Need Is Love exhibition will be at the Ledward Centre from 5pm on Monday, May 15 until Wednesday, June 21
Elska Magazine, a publication dedicated to sharing the bodies and voices of LGBTQ+ communities around the world, has put the spotlight on Paris for its latest issue.
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