The Pride, or Pride March, takes place this Saturday, June 24 and will take to the streets of Paris from 2 p.m. Departure from Place de la Nation and arrival at Place de la République where many concerts and DJ sets will be in full swing.
[Updated June 24, 2023 at 1:04 p.m.] The Pride takes place this Saturday, June 24, in the streets of Paris. The meeting time is fixed at 2 p.m., Place de la Nation. From the square, the walkers will set off on a route that will take them to the Place de la République where free concerts and DJ sets await them. On the grand podium program: Jeanne Added, Cirque Fier.e.s, Nabil Harlow, Cormac and more.
As every year, a tribute to those who died of HIV-AIDS will be paid. At 4:30 p.m., three minutes of silence will be observed. New for 2023 is the absence of motorized floats in the parade. Inter-LGBT made this choice with a view to “eco-responsibility and decarbonization”, it is explained on the Pride website. The federation of around sixty militant associations nevertheless wants to reassure on two points. Who says no tanks, does not mean no sound and the atmosphere will indeed be guaranteed by many orchestras on foot. Also, electric vehicles will be available for people with disabilities or reduced mobility.
In 1981, the very first demonstration for LGBTQIA rights took place in Paris. For this edition, the Pride March should bring together more than half a million walkers.
The procession of the 2023 Parisian LGBT Pride March forms at 2 p.m. on the Place de la Nation. It starts from the church of Pantin to join the Place de la République in Paris at 5 p.m. A podium will be installed there for a “great festive and demanding arrival”. Here are the waypoints of the route:
The Gay Pride parade ends at 5 p.m. on Place de la République with a free concert during the Grand Podium of the Pride March which has many surprises in store. Among the guest artists: Jeanne Added, Chloé, Madame Arthur, Lalla Rami… The party will end around 10 p.m. at République, but various parties are organized in the capital to prolong the fun throughout the night.
It was in June 1969, after a violent police raid on the Stonewall Inn, a mythical gay bar in New York, that the first parade of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people was organized across the Atlantic. These demonstrations, which then turned into a riot for several days, mark the beginning of the fight for equal LGBT rights. Gay pride was soon born out of this violence with, the following year, a parade in the streets of the city organized by Brenda Howard, a bisexual considered today as a pioneer in this fight. Other parades placed under the sign of “pride” will take place at the same time in Los Angeles or San Francisco, then, a few years later, in Europe, starting with Germany.
Gay Pride will arrive in 1981 in Paris. This event, accessible to all and free of charge, will gradually bring together more than half a million people in the capital. And she has come a long way, in France too. According to an Ifop poll published last year, 83% of French people now believe that the Pride Marches have helped advance the rights of LGBT people. In 2019, it is not a Pride March, but dozens that have been organized throughout France throughout the month of June. In Nancy, Lille, or even Saint-Denis, they brought together tens of thousands of people.
