Secretary of State for European Affairs since July 26, 2020, Clément Beaune is a model student of the government who cultivates a taste for a job well done and discretion has dared to reveal itself somewhat in the pages of the magazine Paris Match. The review devotes a portrait to him in which he looks back on his coming out that he had done in the pages of Stubborn last December.
Clément Beaune is a workaholic. In Paris Match, he is described as a man who sleeps only five hours a night, who accumulates in a little over a year “100 trips, including 49 outside France, and 24 countries visited out of the 27 forming the Union“Perfectionist, the 40-year-old politician has however decided to let go on a subject, however important since it concerns his private life: his sexual orientation.
Why did you make this decision? This subject has never been one for him written Paris Match : “His parents accepted him very early on, his friends always knew it, and he never campaigned.“However, he did not do things in a hurry, considering the fact of “to say or not to say“, because this is not a question that a heterosexual politician would have had to ask himself. At the end of 2020, the enarque decides to speak openly to the press, believing that “his assumed sexual identity will weigh on his travels in Poland and Hungary“. History will tell him that he was right, given the enthusiastic messages he received after the publication of the magazine. Stubborn in which he confides. “Life has never been difficult for me, I’m aware of it “, admits in modest sincerity Clément Beaune to Paris Match.
Coming out and politics
“I’m gay and I take it“he said in Stubborn in December 2020. “Today it seems trite to say it, but it is not obvious. The beatings, the violence, the rejection, it exists in 2020. To say today my sexual orientation, it is not indecency or the staging of intimacy“, he added.
The senior official was master of his coming out, unlike one of his colleagues, government spokesman Gabriel Attal who was “outraged” by the lawyer and close to the Yellow Vests, Juan Branco. The environmental senator Mélanie Vogel has chosen for her part to assume her sexual orientation on her Twitter account. “Before having political responsibilities, it is something that I did little. I’m doing it now because I know it matters to a lot of people that there are people they can relate to who come to power“, she confided to Alba Ventura on RTL.