A group of LGBT activists hung a banner from the Pont des Arts bridge protesting French President Emmanuel Macron’s positions on immigration and refugees in France.

Activists unveiled the banner, which read in English, “Macron starves the migrants, Queers against borders,” while firing off pink smoke bombs.

While Macron has positioned himself as a center-left politician, some are unhappy with the plan he unveiled for the refuge crisis. In a Huffington Post article written by activist
Cy Lecerf Maulpoix, he described Macron’s newly unveiled plan for dealing with migrants as consisting of “more police, more evictions, more oppressions, and more vulnerability” while hiding behind “a bunch of unclear, non-budgeted propositions that are not even slightly answering the problems of the current crisis.”

But why are LGBT activists getting involved in this? Maulpoix explained that they wanted to show solidarity.

“We knew that we wanted to emphasize a necessary solidarity between our communities, whether we are LGBTQI or not,” he wrote. “Even if our oppressions and privileges are not equivalent.
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