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Baptiste and his boyfriend Anthony are both voting Front National. The main gay district in Paris is full of bars, clubs and sex shops - not a place you'd expect to find support for banning same-sex marriage. But there are people in Le Marais backing the Front National FN ahead of this weekend's presidential election in France - and that's exactly what the party's leader says she'll do.

Polls suggest Marine Le Pen has plenty of support from gay voters. Newsbeat's been out in the district finding out why. He's an environmental engineering student and, after some persuasion, agrees to go on record as a Front National supporter. For a long time the FN was a taboo in France - a fringe party clouded by allegations of homophobia, racism and anti-semitism.

He wanted to deport three million foreigners, denied the Holocaust and also opposed France's membership of the EU. He's also been quotedexternal describing homosexuals as a biological anomaly. Now the Front National has entered the mainstream - and since Marine Le Pen became its leader inwith her promise to temporarily suspend all immigration and put French interests first, it's a serious contender in this election.

Another of her pledges is to repeal a law allowing gay people to get married. I myself fn gay in a same-sex couple and there have been many advances in this area," Cedric explains. We ask him if he's worried about LGBT rights and, like most of the FN supporters we speak to, he thinks the same-sex marriage thing is a bluff: a ploy to win conservative votes.

It's a view that's at least partially fn gay up by the facts. Counter-intuitively, the Front National has more high level gay figures than any other major party, people like Marine Le Pen's closest adviser Florian Philippot. If the FN were to win, I think she would prioritise other things.

As Cedric talks to us, drinkers on nearby tables are visibly shocked. The majority of the people we chat to in Le Marais laugh, or physically recoil, when we ask if they're backing the Front National. But we do. He and his boyfriend Anthony are both voting for Marine Le Pen.

Polls suggest the party is now more popular in the LGBT community than perhaps many would want to admit.

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Of the 3, gay French men the dating app Hornet spoke to,external one in five said they would be giving Marine Le Pen their vote. Other polling in the aftermath of the regional elections suggested the FN was more popular among married gay men than the general population. For many, it's her tough stance on immigration.

In Islamic countries," says Pascale, who doesn't want to be photographed. But further north, in the poorer and more multicultural suburb fn gay Pont-de-Flandre, it's a different picture. I'm not surprised. The Spice Girls and Madonna both feature prominently in the set he's playing at a local gay bar.

They feel like they're not targets for the FN any more so they think it's OK to vote for them. I don't care. Just the fact she thinks it's OK to say it makes her very dangerous. Eleven candidates are in the race for the French presidency.