What could be better than the traditional pride parade to wrap up this sizzling Pride month? The Inter-LGBT, the organizing association of the event, invites us to gather this Saturday, June 28 starting at 1:30 PM for a route from the Palais-Royal - Musée du Louvre metro to Place de la Nation. It's time to bring out your most beautiful signs and your shiniest glitter to celebrate love and LGBTQIA+ identities!
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From Palais-Royal to Nation
So, what's the scoop on the route for this 2025 edition of the Pride march in Paris? In 2025, there's a change of plans as the parade will kick off from the city center, unlike last year when the procession started at Porte de la Villette. Meet us at 1:30 PM at the Palais-Royal - Musée du Louvre metro (lines 1 and 7). Before the march, there will be a speech. The procession will then make its way through the city, heading not to Place de la République, but to Nation. Nearly 500,000 people are expected to join the celebration!
Many Invited Artists
Once the parade is over, a grand "Pride Stage 2025" will be set up to...uo;install at Nation around 5 PM, and this will run until 9:30 PM. Speeches, performances, concerts: the party will be lively with super queer artists who will brighten up the evening, including the electro music group Camion Bip Bip, Nicky Doll, Kalika, Afro Queer Rising, and Claude-Emmanuelle. Many surprises are planned to celebrate the event, give visibility to all LGBTQIA+ folks, and celebrate our diversities.
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A Tense Pride
Behind the light-hearted tone adopted by the author of these lines, it's important to point out that the march takes place once again in a tense political context. It's no longer just the first round of the Legislative elections and the rise of the National Rally flooding the news (though that still matters), but more broadly the deterioration of the situation for queer individuals around the globe in 2025, with Donald Trump’s re-election across the ocean giving a new echo to homophobic and transphobic ideas.
The official visual from Inter-LGBT, criticized for its invisibility of LGBT+ love in favor of intersectional activism, clearly alludes to this, calling on “ queers of all countries” to unite “ against the reactionary international.” Whether you stand for or against the controversy, whether you’re gay, lesbian, bisexual, or heterosexual, it’s high time to join the movement for them, for her, for him, for us, in short,
for the protection and unconditional respect for the rights of LGBTQIA+ individuals. Hoping that the march can take place without hindrance after the announcement of Eros's participation, a far-right gay group fighting against “LGBT excesses,” “leftists,” and immigration, which the organizers have firmly opposed.Voir cette publication sur Instagram