Tag: France
Russian media: Macron is a ‘gay psychopath that hates France’
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...
Gay activist kidnapped, held captive and violently raped for two days in France
He is receiving massive support during this traumatizing time
An activist in France was kidnapped, held captive and violently raped for two days in France.
Pictures of Zak Ostmane, an LGBTI rights activist from Algeria, show him to be bloody and bruised in a hospital gown.
He is one of the founding members of Shams France, a gay rights organization created in 2014 defending the rights of people born of gender and sexual minorities in Tunisia, Morocco, Algeria and Libya.
‘Last weekend, Zak...
The new favourite to be French President wants to ban gay couples from adopting
A politician who has pledged to attack same-sex adoption rights is the new favourite to be President of France… and his main opponent is a far-right nationalist.
François Fillon was the surprise winner of the centre-right conservative primary this month, edging out competition from former President Nicolas Sarkozy and Former Prime Minister Alain Juppé ahead of next year’s Presidential vote.
The hardline conservative candidate, a strong opponent of LGBT rights, is expected to face the National Front candidate Marine Le Pen...
Today in Gay History: France Becomes First West European Country to Decriminalize Homosexuality
The French got the right idea much earlier than other major nations, decriminalizing homosexuality in 1791.
The legalization of homosexual acts between two consenting adults came as part of the French Penal Code of 1791, during the French Revolution. The code was sponsored by French politican Louis-Michel le Peletier, who presented the code as a clear guide to crimes and their respective punishments. It was a major shift in legal procedure, taking power away from judges and instead outlining explicitly what...
