Jun 24, 2000 - 02:49 PM
More Than 100,000 March Through Paris in Gay
Pride Parade
The Associated Press
The Associated Press
PARIS (AP) - In a festive celebration of gay
pride, more than 100,000 people marched and danced Saturday through the streets
of Paris behind a giant banner with the slogan for this year's parade:
"Homophobia - a social plague."
French Education Minister Jack Lang and the Socialist Party's mayoral candidate Bertrand Delanoe were among the politicians that kicked off Gay Pride 2000 behind dozens of motorcyclists from the Gay Bikers Club.
French Education Minister Jack Lang and the Socialist Party's mayoral candidate Bertrand Delanoe were among the politicians that kicked off Gay Pride 2000 behind dozens of motorcyclists from the Gay Bikers Club.
"Whenever there is a demonstration for liberty,
I'm there," said Delanoe, who came out in 1998 and has marched in the parade for
the past six years.
Rainbow-colored flags waved under overcast skies
as the parade wound from southern Paris to its destination at the Place de la
Bastille, near the city's gay district.
Booming techno and disco music played as drag
queens and other elaborately costumed men and women danced on colorful floats
and along the sidelines of the parade.
Police estimated the crowd size at between
100,000 and 130,000 people, while organizers said that 250,000 people turned out
for the event.
On Friday, Social Affairs Minister Martine Aubry
said the government planned to introduce new laws outlawing discrimination
against homosexuals.
Aubry said the new legislation would appear as
an amendment to a "social modernization" bill currently going through
Parliament.
Woe to those who lust for an innocent
child.
merely to satisfy their addiction to
self-gratification..
Bard
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Kids Get Graphic Instruction In Homosexual Sex
No more homosexual sex education...... http://www.massnews.com/maygsa.htm
Kids Get Graphic Instruction In Homosexual Sex
