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The Paris Pride or ''Marche des Fiertés LGBT'', is a
parade
A parade is a procession of people, usually organized along a street, often in costume, and often accompanied by marching bands, float (parade), floats, or sometimes large balloons. Parades are held for a wide range of reasons, but are usually ce ...
and festival held at the end of June each year in Paris, France to celebrate the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and
transgender
A transgender (often abbreviated as trans) person is someone whose gender identity or gender expression does not correspond with their sex assigned at birth. Many transgender people experience dysphoria, which they seek to alleviate through tr ...
(
LGBT
' is an initialism that stands for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender. In use since the 1990s, the initialism, as well as some of its common variants, functions as an umbrella term for sexuality and gender identity.
The LGBT term is a ...
) people and
their allies. The parade starts each year at
Tour Montparnasse
Tour Maine-Montparnasse (Maine-Montparnasse Tower), also commonly named Tour Montparnasse, is a office skyscraper located in the Montparnasse area of Paris, France. Constructed from 1969 to 1973, it was the tallest skyscraper in France until 2 ...
and ends at
Place de la Bastille
The Place de la Bastille is a square in Paris where the Bastille prison once stood, until the storming of the Bastille and its subsequent physical destruction between 14 July 1789 and 14 July 1790 during the French Revolution. No vestige of the ...
. After the parade the party continues in the gaydistrict
Le Marais
The Marais (Le Marais ; "the marsh") is a historic district in Paris, France. Having once been an aristocratic district, it is home to many buildings of historic and architectural importance. It spreads across parts of the 3rd and 4th arr ...
. Paris was the host of
Europride in 1997.
Paris Marais
File:Paris Gay Pride 2013 009.jpg, Paris Pride 2013
File:Paris Gay Pride 2013 037.jpg, Paris Pride 2013
File:GayPride 2012 255.jpg, Paris Pride 2012
File:Char de Flag ! à la marche des fiertés de Paris 2011.jpg, Paris Pride 2011
See also
* LGBT culture in Paris
Paris, the capital of France, has an active LGBT community. In the 1990s, 46% of the country's gay men lived in the city. As of 2004, Paris had 140 LGBT bars, clubs, hotels, restaurants, shops, and other commercial businesses. Florence Tamagne, ...
* Amsterdam Gay Pride
Amsterdam Pride, Amsterdam Gay Pride or Pride Amsterdam is a citywide queer-festival held annually at the center of Amsterdam during the first weekend of August. The festival attracts several hundred-thousand visitors each year and is one of ...
* Berlin Pride
The Berlin Pride Celebration, also known as Christopher Street Day Berlin, or CSD Berlin, is a pride parade and festival held in the second half of July each year in Berlin, Germany to celebrate the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT ...
* Pride London
Pride in London is an annual LGBT pride festival and Pride parade, parade held each summer in London, England. The event, which was formerly run by Pride London, is sometimes referred to as London Pride.
Pride in London celebrates the diversit ...
References
External links
Official website, Paris Gay Pride
Festivals in Paris
Pride parades in Europe
LGBT festivals in France
Recurring events established in 1981
Parades in France
LGBT culture in Paris
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