Tag: Emmanuel Macron

'The threat remains high' Terrorist attacks on gay clubs have been prevented by French police, according to a minister. Gerard Collomb, interior minister, has said a ‘plan of violent action’ targeting LGBTI clubs was thwarted by the authorities this year. Since the deadliest terror attack in French history on November 2015, in which 130 people were killed in multiple shooting and grenade attacks, security levels have been at record levels. Police stop terrorist attacks in France ‘The threat remains high,’ Collomb said. While Collomb gave...

New French President Emmanuel Macron raised LGBT rights and Chechnya in his tense first meeting with Vladimir Putin. The French leader met with the Russian leader today for the first time since his election earlier this month. During the pair’s behind-closed-doors meeting, President Macron raised the alleged purge of gay men in Chechnya, as well as wider issues regarding LGBT people’s rights across Russia. Macron, a strong supporter of equality, vowed in a joint press conference with Putin to be “constantly vigilant...

It appears the Russian media are not taking the results of the French election well... A Russian newspaper has accused the new President of France, Emmanuel Macron, as a ‘gay psychopath’. Komsomolskaya Pravda, a tabloid, plastered a image of Macron on the cover of a gay magazine as ‘evidence’ of his homosexuality. The headline was ‘Coming Out’. The picture, on Garçon, was photoshopped. Obviously not having read the magazine itself, the article said: ‘For gays, this expression means “out of the shadows”, to recognise you’re...

Right-wing parties are desperate to stop a marriage equality advocate from becoming president A hopeful to become French president Emmanuel Macron has denied he is cheating on his wife with a man. The En Marche (On The Move) leader is gaining traction in the polls. It looks like he may defeat one of the far-right candidates campaigning on Euro-skepticism, Islamophobia and homophobia to become president. But after being accused of being a puppet of the ‘wealthy gay lobby’, the marriage equality advocate...