On the eve of the legislative elections, thousands of people will march through the streets of the capital as part of the Pride March. In 2024, the latter will be dedicated to transsolidarity. Here is his journey.
“On Saturday, June 29, inter-LGBT calls for investing in public space and making the Paris and Île-de-France Pride March a march against transphobia, a march for transsolidarity, in France, in Europe, throughout the world.” In a press release published on social networks, inter-LGBT, which brings together around sixty associations, launched the event that it has been organizing for more than ten years.
According to the authorities, up to 80,000 people are expected in Paris, in the context of legislative elections where the National Rally is the favorite since the dissolution of the National Assembly by Emmanuel Macron.
According to the event map published on social networks by the inter-LGBT, the procession will leave at 1:30 p.m. from Porte de la Villette and end at Place de la République. In the meantime, the parade will run along avenues Corentin Cariou and de Flandre, then pass through rue du Faubourg Saint-Martin, before joining boulevard Magenta in the tenth arrondissement.
A concert on the program
Please note that speeches will be scheduled for 1 p.m., before the demonstrators leave.
To close the day, the podium of the March will bring together Eddy de Pretto, Bilal Hassani, Desire, Louïz and the drag queen Piche as part of a concert which will take place at Place de la République between 4:30 p.m. and 10 p.m.
According to the Ministry of the Interior, attacks against LGBTQ+ people increased by 13% in 2023 in France compared to 2022, with even a jump of 19% for crimes and misdemeanors recorded by the police and the gendarmerie.
In this context, many associations have called on their members to vote against the National Rally and for “parties which put our rights and our demands at the forefront of their priorities”.
