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Toulouse Pride

The Toulouse Pride (French: Marche des fiertés de Toulouse) is a parade taking place every year since 1994, in the French city of Toulouse.

The first edition of the march took place in 1994, and has since become a major LGBT event in southwestern France.

In 2013, year of the legalisation of same-sex marriage in France, the beginning of the parade took place in the front of the city hall, the Capitole, in the same time than the first same-sex marriage in Toulouse was celebrated inside the building.

In the 2014 edition of the march, a conflict between some demonstrators and the LGBT organization of the National Police, Flag!, happened.

In 2017, the prefecture of Haute-Garonne department, where Toulouse is located, orders new safety rules, that has to be paid by organizers, for public demonstrations; which would mean 20.000 euros of additional expenses. Act-Up Sud Ouest sees there an indirect way of trying to censor the demonstration, while the prefecture believes their expectations to be justified because of terrorist menace. Relations between Pride parade's organizers and the prefecture are under tension again in 2021, when the latter wants to change the route of the parade. Following a mobilisation of the LGBT community, with a petition to residents of the route and the categorical refusal of changing the route at the risk of cancelling completely the demonstration, the march finally takes place on the habitual route.

This event gives place to other events in the city, like the illumination of the Capitole with the colors of the LGBT flag, or sometimes of the Pont Neuf too.

In 2020, because of COVID-19 pandemic, the parade is cancelled. For this same reason, in 2021 it happened exceptionally in October instead of June.

Nowadays, the municipality of Toulouse is one of the partners of the yearly parade. The relations between both don't always have been good however.

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