So get this – in 2021 Paris Homosexual Delight had no floats, then in 2022 floats have been as soon as once more allowed, and this 12 months the 2023 Homosexual Delight March in Paris is as soon as once more with out floats, apparently in an try to be extra ecoresponsible, though we suspect it’s to cease the occasion turning into over-sponsired by manufacturers attempting to enhance their picture.
The march – which works from Nation (right here) to République – doesn’t move by our lodges, nevertheless it does undergo Bastille which isn’t very far. Teh march begins at 2pm at Nation and a giant stage awaits you all at République from 5pm onwards, undoubtedly with DJs and reside music (the official line-up hasn’t been confirmed but).
This 12 months’s march comes ten years after homosexual marriage was lastly legalised in France. Whereas the invoice was going by parliament, a variety of right-wing and Christian indiviudals predicted the downfall of French society, or that individuals would quickly be eager to marry animals. This in fact didn’t come to move, however violence in opposition to in opposition to LGBTQIA+ people was rife then and continues to be widespread now, particularly in case you are exterior the protecting bubble of our capital metropolis.
All of which is to say that the visibility of the Homosexual Delight March nonetheless serves a objective. Nonetheless, it’s not the one LGBTQIA+ occasion in June.
La quinzaine des fiertés (Two weeks of pleasure) consists of a variety of occasions all through the month (debates, membership nights, reveals, sports activities…), one in all which is Munnezza – Iel, Queer et Amour, an exhibition of Italian and French artists on the Italian Cultural Centre (right here, not removed from our lodges) with photographs, sculptures, video installations and performances.
The general public opening social gathering is on Thursday fifteenth June at 6.30pm, there’s a spherical desk entitled Queer Artwork, censorship and creation, politics and psychology on seventeenth June at 6pm, and at 12.30pm on Saturday twenty fourth June, simply earlier than the Homosexual Delight March, the Parisian convent of the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence will bless the exhibition in their very own inimitable manner!
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Completely satisfied 2023 Homosexual Delight to everybody!
La Marche des Fiertés / Homosexual Delight March 2023 is occurring in Paris on twenty fourth June
Leaves from Place de la Nation (right here) at 2pm
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