Mayor of Paris responded to anti-LGBTQI+ experts of opening ceremony

The mayor of Paris did not hold back in condemning anti-LGBTQ+ pundits for their demonisation of the 2024 Olympics opening ceremony.

Anne Hidalgo made her feelings about the backlash to the opening-day extravaganza clear, saying: “F**k the reactionaries, f**k this far right, f**k all of those who would like to lock us into a war of all against all.”

Right-wing pundits and religious figures were up in arms over a portion of the ceremony in which drag queens paid homage to the Greek god Dionysus, which was misinterpreted as a queer depiction of Leonardo da Vinci’s world-famous The Last Supper.

Religious reactionaries described the event as “satanic” while others claimed it was blasphemous despite it possibly being one of the most re-enacted paintings in history.

“Paris is the city of all freedoms, the city of refuge for LGBTQI+ people, the city where people live together,” the mayor of Paris Anne Hidalgo said in response.