Paris, France, French LGTB Holding Banner, at pro Gay Marriage Demonstration, "No Homophobia, Yes to Equality" against discrimination
Marriage for all: between 125,000 and 400,000 people marched in Paris Thousands of people on Sunday beat the pavement to support the current bill to legalize gay marriage in Paris. According to the organizers, the protesters were 400,000 in the streets of the capital, three times less than the opponents two weeks ago, but more than in their previous demonstration in mid-December. The Inter-LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, Bi and Trans), co-organized the march with the group "Take Action for equality" and will attend the, two-day open debate in the Parliament. Nicolas Gougain, spokesman of the Inter-LGBT, welcomed the "success" of the event with "many more" participants than the previous pro-gay marriage protest held on Dec. 16. "We demonstrated that we are mobilized, And we showed that France today, is very diverse," Although organizers had rejected any war figures, the challenge was to mobilize more than 16 December (60,000 according to the police, 150,000 demonstrators according to the organizers) and respond to "anti", which had gathered between January 13th 340,000 people (police) and one million (organizers). Several thousand supporters of "marriage for all" also had marched Saturday in the provinces. The inter-LGBT on Sunday, announced the number of 100,000 during the demonstrations. Under the slogan of "equal rights", defenders of "marriage for all" started shortly after 2:00 from Denfert-Rochereau (fourteenth arrondissement) and arrived in the late afternoon on the Place de la Bastille (eleventh arrondissement ). The protesters, including many young, gay or heterosexual, had finally taken two routes to converge in a friendly atmosphere around the column of the Bastille. "What do you want? Equality! And you want it when? Now!" chanted the demonstrators, carrying banners, placards and umbrellas in the colors of the rainbow, rainbow, symbol of the homosexual cause. Many protesters marched in couples, like Alexis and Stephan, 33 and 37 years, parents of tw
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