PRIDE MARKET. Nearly half a million people will go to Gay Pride this Saturday, June 24, 2023 in Paris. What time is the parade? What are the stages of the journey? Is it true that it will take place without tanks?
[Updated June 23, 2023 at 5:09 p.m.] Make way for the Pride March, formerly known as Gay Pride, this Saturday, June 24 in Paris! The Inter-LGBT has announced a change for this 2023 edition: the march will be “without tanks” for the sake of “decarbonization”. However, the Inter-LGBT “of course provides trucks for people with reduced mobility/disabled people, but also other vehicles for transporting people who will need them”. Another reassuring point, the parade passes close to several shaded areas and drinking water points.
The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) Pride March starts at Place de la Nation this Saturday, June 24 at 2 p.m. to reach Place de la République in Paris. As every year, a tribute will be paid to the victims of HIV/AIDS during the 3 minutes of silence at 4:30 p.m. A “great festive and demanding arrival” is expected at Place de la République at 5 p.m. with a large podium until 10:30 p.m.!
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:
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.
