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 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 […]
