PARIS – Days before the French government are due to debate a proposal that would allow same-sex couples to marry and adopt children in France, more than 100,000 took to the streets of Paris in support of the measure.
Guillaume Bonnet of All Out, an LGBT rights pressure group, told the Washington Blade from Paris after he marched with his cousin and one of his friends that a lot of straight people took part in the demonstration.
“It was very emotional,” he said. “For them it’s about freedom, equality and family values.”
Last month a similar march in Paris drew more than 150,000 people.
The Washington Blade reported that according to a poll on the Web site Atlantico.fr released on Saturday 63 percent of French people support same-sex marriage, compared to 60 percent who said they backed the issue last month. Forty-nine percent of respondents also support adoption rights for gays and lesbians, compared to 46 percent in December.
