As the hashtag #JeSuisCharlie continues to light up social media platforms across the world, Human Rights Watch issued a response to the horrific attack on the office of Charlie Hebdo Jan. 7: The attack in Paris during an editorial meeting of the satirical magazine left 12 people dead, including two police officers. A dozen people…
With a checkered past and an unsympathetic readership, Well Well Well hopes to blaze a new trail in lesbian glossies as it debuted last Friday in France. The magazine, which will initially be published biannually and focuses on the modern French lesbian woman, hopes to succeed where others have failed. “Earlier this year, Jeanne —…
Dianna Agron and John D’Leo in The Family After seeing Robert De Niro in Silver Linings Playbook last year, I was hopeful that he had turned a corner. Once considered the great actor of his generation, for almost twenty years, he was mostly phoning it in. But in Silver Linings Playbook, he worked his ass…
(CNN) — Rafael Nadal has admitted to feeling “scared” when a masked protester ran onto court brandishing a flare during Sunday’s French Open final, briefly disrupting the Spaniard’s bid for a record-breaking victory. Nadal, who became the first male tennis player to win one grand slam eight times, praised the contribution of security staff who…
http://youtu.be/_NYyBA7zWfM Described as a ‘tender, sensual lesbian romance,’ Tunisian-born director Abdellatif Kechiche’s three-hour paean to generational love, took the top prize – the Palme d’Or – at this years Cannes Film Fetival, widely regarding as one of the most prestigious film awards in the world. The film centers almost entirely around one woman’s sexual awakening…
(CNN) — Protesters filled Paris’ Esplanade des Invalides on Sunday, rallying against a new law that will allow same-sex marriage in France starting Wednesday. Paris police estimate 150,000 demonstrators marched along three different routes before converging in the sprawling plaza along the Seine River. The arguments against same-sex marriage in France sound similar to those…
MONTPELLIER, France – Wednesday, May 29, Vincent Autin and Bruno Boileau from Montpellier will become the first gay couple to marry in France. Vincent, 40 and Boileau, 30, met 7 years ago through their love of music. Both are fans of singer Christophe Willem and were members of an online fan forum. Three of the ten…
(CNN) — France’s top court ruled Friday that a bill permitting same-sex marriage and allowing gay couples to adopt children adheres to the constitution. President Francois Hollande is expected to sign the bill into law on Saturday. After the lower house of Parliament, dominated by Hollande’s governing Socialist Party, passed the bill last month, conservative…
In a sign of just how difficult the nascent gay rights movement is in the relatively new, relatively democratic country of Georgia, protesters, led by leaders of the Orthodox Christian Church derailed a gay pride parade shortly after it was scheduled to get under way. Thousands of anti-gay protestors, some with signs reading “We don’t…
(CNN) — French lawmakers voted to legalize same-sex marriage Tuesday, despite vocal protests from some conservatives opposed to the step. The nation’s lower house approved a marriage bill, which will also give same-sex couples the right to adopt, in a 331-to-225 final vote. They cast their votes after impassioned speeches by lawmakers for and against…
