“Love always wins.
»As part of Piano Day, organized on June 16 and 17 by the Microqlima label, Eddy de Pretto performed alongside Feu!
Chatterton, Prudence, Nautilus, November Ultra and Terrenoire in Saint Eustache church, in Paris.
A performance that sparked violent reactions from its homophobic detractors on social networks.
The day after his show, the author of the song
Kid
shared on his Instagram account some extracts and screenshots of many hate messages he received under the last posts related to his performance in Saint Eustache.
The singer reacted to these violent remarks with the message "I will sing my words in all the places that welcome me to do it" and also called on Twitter for the force of love: "These homophobes, royalists, anarchists of extreme right will never win.
Love always wins.
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Eddy de Pretto is the victim of massive homophobic harassment from the far-right after having performed in a church.
Support for him.
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- LGBT + Corner (@lecoindeslgbt) June 19, 2021
A touching encounter
On Instagram, Eddy de Pretto also tells that during the same evening, a young believer came to tell him about her emotion when listening to the song
A quoi bon
, which tells of not feeling accepted because of her homosexuality.
"She then explained to me that it was a false and outdated reading to believe that being gay excluded you from these sacred places or from religion when it is supposed to open up to those who want it. intimately, ”added the singer in his Instagram story.
The rapper took advantage of this controversy to recall that the Saint-Eustache church exhibited the triptych “The life of Christ”, a work in tribute to AIDS victims, produced by Keith Haring, himself deceased of this disease.
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