Paris, France. Several thousand people gathered Tuesday evening to celebrate the new law opening marriage and a-doption to homosexual couples Holding Gay flags, lgbt
(By AFP) Several thousand people gathered Tuesday night on the Place de la Bastille in Paris to attend the free concert celebrating the new law legalizing gay marriage and adoption and to try to turn the page after "long months of difficult discussions." Under a threatening sky, after a very rainy day, the crowd waved gay and French flags distributed by the organizers. The Paris Mayor, Bertrand Delanoe, the Minister for Family, Dominique Bertinotti, former socialist minister, Jack Lang, and LGBT leaders attended a part of the concert. Meanwhile the lead act on the poster of the event, the Franco-British artist Mika, who went public with his homosexuality in September; After public speaking intellectuals and association leaders, HK group and Acrobats came on stage to play his anthem "We loose nothing," a slogan ironically taken by the anti-gay marriage hoping to do repeal the law. "It's strange to come to show solidarity with a law that was passed but it is a way of saying we'd don't like the worst smelly brouhaha which we have ever seen," said Kaddour, a group member before going on stage. Artists Mademoiselle K, Zaza Fournier, Gay and Magga Rascals also performed on stage between speeches. "We lived nine months with particularly difficult discussions, in the media, with homophobia that is now uninhibited and this is why it was so important to meet to have a good time," said Nicolas Gougain, the spokesman of Inter-LGBT. "I'm smiling, it's a very good way to end these long months of debate," for his part said Erwann Binet, the French Senato who introduced the Gay Marriage Bill (or the Taubira Law) of the Socialist party." (translated from the Liberation Website)
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