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  • French Anti-Gay Marriage Protest Group Plan To Sue Act Up

    French Anti-Gay Marriage Protest Group Plan To Sue Act Up

    • French anti-gay marriage group plans to sue activism group Act Up after members threw red liquid at the JLF genetic research firm in south-west Paris.
    • ActUp is an international ‘direct action’ advocacy group that formed in 1987.
    • La Manif Pour Tous (LMPT) has staged mass protest rallies in France, but has failed to ignite interest across the world with its demonstrations.

    RFI is reporting that the French organisation intends to sue advocacy group ACT UP after some of its activists threw fake blood and posted posters reading “shame” and “homophobe” on the outside of the Jérome Lejeune Foundation, which is a genetic research firm, where the president of La Manif Pour Tous, (Demo For All), Ludovine de la Rochère works as a communications manager.

    In a tweet La Manif Pour Tous announced its intention to file a complaint after ‘the vandalism of @ActUpParis and one expects a strong response from the authorities.’

    ActUp said it was acting in protest when LMPT allegedly called for help during a rally outside the Russian embassy in May.

    In June, President Putin signed into law a bill that could see citizens promoting “non-traditional relationships” to anyone under 18 face hefty fines and prison.

    A number of boycotts and petitions have started around the world in response to the crackdown on Russia’s LGBT community.

  • 150,000 take to the streets in Paris against gay rights

    The number of people who attended an anti-gay marriage rally has been revised from the organiser’s estimation of 1 million down to 150,000

    Seen as a last-ditch attempt to derail the new bill that legalises same-sex marriage in France, thousands of protesters demonstrated.

    PinkNews.co.uk has reported the number of those taking part at around 150,000 whilst the rally’s organisers, La Manif Pour Tous (Demo For All) have reported extreme figures of one million demonstrators.

    The new bill, which was signed into law by President Francois Holland, has caused much controversy in France, after it made France the 14th nation to recognise same-sex marriage earlier in May 2013

    Thousands of riot police were mobilised after an increasing number of the crowd became violent, when illegal teargas canisters and fireworks were reportedly used as weapons.

    Around 50 people were arrested – and a vehicle was seized after masks, banners and smoke bombs were discovered inside.

    The Independent reports:

    About 200 young people, many of them masked, pelted police lines with bottles, stones, fireworks and flares. The crowd – led bizarrely at one stage by a lone bagpiper – chased and beat up TV crews and press photographers. Police and gendarmes responded with tear gas and baton charges.

    There were surreal battle scenes on the Esplanade des Invalides beside the foreign ministry as 200 gendarmes in riot gear formed into defensive squares to beat off attacks from running bands of protesters. Although a hard core of about 200 hard-right youths started the fighting, many hundreds of other, soberly dressed, middle-class protesters cheered them on.

  • Scores Of Pro-Equality Turn Up To Anti-Gay Marriage Protest In London

    Scores Of Pro-Equality Turn Up To Anti-Gay Marriage Protest In London

    Hundreds of Pro-Gay Marriage Supporters Turn Out To Anti-gay Marriage Protest In London.

    La Manif Pour Tous in Londom
    CREDIT: TheGayUK

    The anti-gay marriage protest group, La Manif Pour Tous, which was granted permission to hold a rally in Trafalgar Square by the Mayor’s office, failed to attract large numbers this afternoon.

    The ‘static protest’ was launched at 2.00PM in central London, where scores of anti-gay marriage protesters were met with pro-equality supporters, who filled a large section of the crowd.

    Police on the ground estimated that there were around 1500 people in total, including those who were pro-equality. At times the pro-equality was so loud that their chants to “Shame On You” and “Go Home Bigots” drown-out the speakers for La Manif Pour Tous.

    There was no violence and the rally ended peacefully at 5.00PM.

    Damien Fournier Montgieux, the co-ordinator of the anti-gay marriage protest, explained: “Almost out of nowhere we are suddenly faced with a huge challenge to the future of marriage and the family in both France and the UK. There has been no warning or consultation with the people.”

    He and other protestors claimed that the future welfare of children will be put at risk from allowing same-sex couples to marry.

    Reports from Pinknews say that, pro marriage equality campaign, Out4Marriage said: “The scale of the counter protest shows that the public very much support equal marriage, regardless of what French and other protesters might try to make you believe.”

  • La Manif Pour Tous London Protest draws poor turn out

    La Manif Pour Tous London Protest draws poor turn out

    La Manif Pour Tous, the French anti same sex marriage and anti adoption for gay couples, organisation is taking its protests to the streets of other European cities including our very own Trafalgar Square.

    After the reported 340,000 protesters who turned up last month in Paris to march against same sex marriage, the French organisers have booked out Trafalgar Square for a UK protest, again expecting to bring in thousands of supporters.

    However it could be the great British weather or the fact that most UK citizens support same sex marriage, as the live web cam shows, it’s quite a poor turn out and not quite the scenes of Paris last month.

    The organisers state that they have 3 purposes to their demonstrations:

    La Manif Pour Tous in Londom
    CREDIT: TheGayUK

    – First, because defending children rights is not a French or an English matter, but a global matter- Secondly, because we share the same values around marriage and family; we need to be united

    – Finally, because it’s obviously a way to send a message to the UK government, even if the demonstation [sic] is initiated by the French.

  • La Manif Pour Tous Plans Demonstration In UKs Capital

    The French anti-same sex marriage organisers of La Manif Pour Tous (Demo For All) are allegedly planning a demonstration in London on the 24th March 2013.

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  • BBC Slammed For Not Reporting French Pro-Gay Marriage Demonstration

    BBC Slammed For Not Reporting French Pro-Gay Marriage Demonstration

    BBC News was criticised yesterday by Stonewall’s CEO, Ben Summerskill OBE for its lack of coverage of the Parisian ‘Mariage Pour Tous’ (Marriage For All) demonstration which was held in the French capital.

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  • UK Christians Should Rally Against Gay Marriage

    Christian People’s Alliance leader Sid Cordle has called on the United Kingdom’s Christians to demonstrate against gay marriage.

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  • MariagePourTous Trends High In France

    AS Reports emerge of an organised march for marriage equality in France the hashtag #MariagePourTous (MarriageForAll) trends high in France.

    Hundreds of people have taken to twitter to tweet their support and pictures for the marriage equality bill which President Hollande has said he will introduce into French law.

    One Twitter user, Katia ‏@AbsolutelyKatia tweeted:

    MARCH today in Paris! It’s about the fundamental rights this country is so proud of: liberté, egalité, fraternité. #mariagepourtous

    Hundreds of people have responded to the call to publicly demonstrate their support for the marriage equality bill.

    The French bill which establishes marriage for all was subject to mass protests two weeks ago, when a reported 340,000 people turned up on the street of Paris for ‘La Manif Pour Tous’ (Demo for all)

    Supporters of the bill have asked the President not to yield to the pressure of the opponents and maintain the establishment gay marriage under the law.

    More information can be found at www.pridemap.fr

  • Score Of People Turn For Pro Gay Marriage Rally In France

    Reports are coming in of an organised march for marriage equality in France, as hundreds of people respond to the call to publicly demonstrate their support for the marriage equality bill.

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  • Mass Protest Of Anti-Gay Marriage In Paris

    Reports of up to 340,000 people in France turned up to an anti-gay marriage protest in the country’s capital, Paris.

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