FROM PARIS WITH YAGG

Every year, the participation numbers for the Paris gay pride (Marche des Fiertés) given by the police are way beneath those given by the organizers, but this year, the difference is spectacular between the 800,000 people calculated by the Inter-LGBT (a group of 50 LGBT French organizations) and the 99,000 – of which 34,000 demonstrators and 65,000 “onlookers” – computed by the Prefecture of Police. Yagg tried to understand why by letting both sides comment on this surprising discordance. Vincent Loiseau, Inter-LGBT’s spokesman, responded very quickly, stating that the numbers given by the Prefecture were  “scandalous and unrepresentative”, but the Prefecture, after many solicitations from Yagg, eventually answered… that it didn’t wish to answer. Neither about the figures, nor about this distinction between demonstrators and “onlookers”, which had never been made before. (more...)

On Saturday June 26, Paris’ LGBT Pride March saw thousands of demonstrators marching down the streets of the French capital, with lots of music and proudly waved rainbow flags. The cheerful ambiance kept up with the protest against hatred and discrimination of the LGBT community. (more...)

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Liza Minnelli made an appearance at the Paris gay pride parade, where she was greated by openly gay Paris Mayor Bertrand Delanoë. She proceeded to adress the crowd, talked about the events of Stonewall and her mother Judy Garland's death.

Yagg.com was there.