Gay Lobby Pleased With New Cabinet

In a communiqué, GayLib, the pro-homosexual lobby of the UMP party, expresses its satisfaction over the composition of the new cabinet:

The presence of many ministers publicly engaged on behalf of equal rights for gays, lesbians, bi-sexual and trans-gendered persons, or friends of GayLib (Alain Juppé, Nathalie Kosciusko-Morizet, Frédéric Mitterand, Roselyne Bachelot, Chantal Jouanno, Nadine Morano, Jeanette Bougrab) are an encouragement for our movement to continue the fight for equality with even more vigor.

Source: Le Salon Beige

Note: Just for the record, the above named are respectively ministers of Defense, Ecology and Housing, Culture, Social Cohesion, Sports, Health, and Youth. Jeanette Bougrab, the new Minister of Youth, has left her post as president of HALDE to which she was appointed last April. This is leading to speculation that HALDE will be abolished (no one will miss it) or that it will become part of "Defense of Rights", a law provided for by the 2008 constitutional reform. HALDE in its current form is the High Authority Against Discrimination and for Equality, and has acted as a type of secret police, relying on denunciations, in its quest to track down anyone who practices racial, religious, ethnic, or gender discrimination. What it would do if it became "defender of rights" is not yet clear, except that the law when implemented acts as a giant mediator that protects the rights and liberties of all citizens, including children.

More information on the fate of HALDE will no doubt become available soon.


Bougrab is French-born of an Algerian father who fought for the French. Algerians who fought for the French are known as "harkis". I could not find information about her mother. She claims to belong to the Right, but she is in favor of gay marriage and gay adoption, though tepid on the subject of affirmative action.