thousands of people marched in several French cities

“Uni.es not to die”, “we are not to heal” Or “make love, not gay-re”. Tens of thousands of people took part, Saturday, June 10, in several cities, including Toulouse, Nantes or Bordeaux, in pride marches, brandishing the traditional rainbow flags, in a festive atmosphere.

The police counted 14,000 demonstrators in Toulouse (Haute-Garonne) as well as in Nantes (Loire-Atlantique), and 4,900 in Bordeaux (Gironde), where they wandered around the hypercentre to the right bank of Garonne. “It hasn’t been very long since I assumed my lesbianity. This march is an opportunity to be proud of myself”, explains to AFP Anne, 50, a protester from Toulouse who does not wish to give her last name. His partner Marie, 60, says to herself “political activist”. “I have been doing the marches for forty years and will continue to do them until death ensues”, she says. Apo, 24, wants, she, “equality for all”. “We must be free in our consensual sexual acts”she says again.

Organized by the Pride Toulouse collective with the support of the town hall of the Pink City, the Haute-Garonne department and political organizations, including EELV, or trade unions, such as the CFDT, the 28th Toulouse Pride March has this year for slogan : “Free to love freely”.