GAY PRIDE. This Saturday, July 2, 2022 takes place the Pride March in Marseille. What is the parade route? And what time is the meeting? All practical information.
[Mis à jour le 1er juillet 2022 à 17h07] The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Shemale (LGBT) Pride March, formerly known as Gay Pride, has taken place in Marseille since 1993! The event takes place this Saturday, July 2, and it includes a Pride Parade, Afterparty, and Pride Festival. Marseille Gay Pride now brings together 15,000 to 25,000 people.
The theme of the 2022 edition is “Straight in the eye”. What is the route of the Marseille Gay Pride parade? What are the closing events of the event? The Pride March is the high point of “Pride Week”, a period of militant, cultural and festive events which began on Thursday 17 June. Marseille Gay Pride will be the grand finale!
The procession of LGBT Pride March 2022 Marseille will form from 3 p.m. Place Jules Guesde. A stop will take place during the parade at the Place du General de Gaulle (Canebière – Palais de la Bourse) in memory of the victims of AIDS and the persecution suffered around the world. On arrival, participants will be able to attend the closing speech before joining the “Longchamp Pride Live Festival” in the gardens of the Palais Longchamp from 6 p.m. to 1 a.m. On the program: 2 stages, DJs, associative village… Here are the stages of the route:
- Departure Place Jules Guesde
- Boulevard des Dames
- Republic street
- Colbert Street
- Belsunce courses
- Canebière: minute of silence
- Belgian Quay
- harbor quay
- Arrival forecourt of the Town Hall
It was in June 1969, after a violent police raid on the Stonewall Inn, a legendary 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.