https://internationalviewpoint.org/ International Viewpoint, the monthly English-language magazine of the Fourth International, is a window to radical alternatives world-wide, carrying reports, analysis and debates from all corners of the globe. Correspondents in over 50 countries report on popular struggles, and the debates that are shaping the left of tomorrow. en SPIP - www.spip.net https://internationalviewpoint.org/local/cache-vignettes/L144xH25/siteon0-da713.png?1745245334 https://internationalviewpoint.org/ 25 144 https://internationalviewpoint.org/The-vote-on-gay-marriage https://internationalviewpoint.org/The-vote-on-gay-marriage 2013-04-23T19:26:04Z text/html en Gabriel Girard France LGBT Sexual politics <p>On 23 April the second vote in the National Assembly passed this proposal into law. The radicalisation of the opponents to “Marriage for all” had continued apace since the article below was written. Demonstrations saw the “parliamentary right” alongside leading members of the far-right National Front, although not Marine Le Pen herself. Homophobia became frighteningly visible, including in attacks on people leaving gay bars in a number of cities. The demonstrations by partisans of the draft law, although supported by the Socialist Party and the other parties to its left (Front de Gauche including the Parti de Gauche and Communist Party, the NPA...), did not mobilise as broadly. This is no doubt due to the general disillusion with the Socialist Party government. <i>International Viewpoint</i> will publish more in the future on the polarisation around this question. [International Viewpoint]</p> - <a href="https://internationalviewpoint.org/-IV459-April-2013-" rel="directory">IV459 - April 2013</a> / <a href="https://internationalviewpoint.org/+-France-+" rel="tag">France</a>, <a href="https://internationalviewpoint.org/+-LGBT-+" rel="tag">LGBT</a>, <a href="https://internationalviewpoint.org/+-Sexual-politics-299-+" rel="tag">Sexual politics</a>