What could be better than the traditional pride march to wrap up this scorching Pride month? The Inter-LGBT, the organizing association for the event, invites us this Saturday, June 28 starting at 1:30 PM for a route from Palais-Royal - Musée du Louvre metro to Place de la Nation. It’s the perfect 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 plan for the route of the 2025 Pride march in Paris? In 2025, there's a change in the program as the parade will kick off from the heart of the capital, unlike last year when the procession started at Porte de la Villette. Let's meet at 1:30 PM at the Palaiseau-Royal - Louvre Museum metro station (lines 1 and 7). Before the march, there will be a speech. The procession will then start making its way through the city, heading not to Place de la République, but to the Nation square. Nearly 500,000 people are expected to join in the celebration!
Google Maps qui met le parcours de la #Pride2017 de Paris comme ça 😍😍😍 pic.twitter.com/nJ1rJNBEyc
— 𝖑𝖎𝖉𝖆 💫 (@makeallcometrue) June 24, 2017
Many invited artists
Once the parade is over, a big "Pride Stage 2025" will set up in Nation around 5 PM, staying until 9:30 PM. Speeches, performances, concerts will light up the celebration, featuring amazing queer artists who will bring the evening to life, like 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+ individuals and honor our diverse identities.
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A Pride Under Tension
Behind the lighthearted tone adopted by the author of these lines, it’s important to note that the march is taking place, once again, in a tense political context. It's no longer just about the first round of the legislative elections and the rise of the National Rally flooding the news (though that's still a factor), but more broadly about the deteriorating situation of queer individuals around the globe in 2025, with Donald Trump’s reelection across the Atlantic giving a new voice to homophobic and transphobic rhetoric.
The official visual from Inter-LGBT, criticized for its invisibility of LGBTQ+ love in favor of intersectional activism, clearly alludes to this, calling on the “ 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 straight, it’s high time to join the movement for them, for her, for him, for us, in short, .for the protection and unconditional respect of 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.
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