Grab your flag, a placard and some glitter: the season of Pride marches is underway across France. From May through September a wide range of towns and cities—big urban centers, suburbs and rural villages—will host LGBT+ events that combine political demands, community villages and festive after-Pride gatherings. If the Pride in your area is missing from this list, please reach out and share the details so we can keep this calendar complete.
May: opening weekends and multi-day initiatives
May marks the start of an intense run of marches. On 9 May the fourth edition of the Agen Pride opens with an association village at Place Jasmin from 11:00 and a march beginning at 14:00. Between 14-17 May the Pédale Tour offers a mobile Pride on bicycles, departing Asquins in the Morvan and finishing in Besançon. The busy weekend of 16 May includes events in Besançon (collectif 17 mai with a 14:00 start after a picnic at Parc Chamars at 13:00), Blois, La Roche-sur-Yon, Saint-Paul-lès-Dax, Valence and Vannes (a Pride launched in 2026). On 23 May Reims hosts Exæquo’s Pride capped by a drag show at Square Colbert from 17:00 to 19:00, while Poitiers’ collective LGBTQIA+ 86 presents a 14:00 march followed by an open stage and multiple after-Pride options. The week closes with Lens on 24 May, the third Pride organized by Couleur, which also ran a fundraising drag show on 9 May.
Late May additions
The last Saturday of May, 30 May, is dense with activity: Lille, Bordeaux and Clermont-Ferrand hold marches alongside Alençon (Orn’en’Ciel, eighth edition), Vernon (LGBT center of Eure), Rodez, Narbonne (second edition), Niort and Saint-Nazaire (fourth editions) and Orléans (thirteenth edition). Tarbes frames its Pride with the slogan “Sous les paillettes, la rage” after a two-week Pride period, and Angers’ collective Quazar marches under “Protégeons notre histoire pour un avenir d’espoir“.
June: peaks, first-time marches and political voices
June gathers many of the country’s largest Prides and a number of first editions. On 6 June look for the Pride of the suburbs in Saint-Denis and a Toulouse march leaving Place du Capitole at 14:30 with an association village from 10:00 to 17:30. Several new local Prides appear in June: Avallon (AQAB) and Chartres (Pride28) both host their first marches. Towns with established events include Angoulême, Aix-en-Provence, Mulhouse, Roubaix, Saint-Quentin, Thionville and Troyes, with after-parties and local programming.
Mid-June highlights and radical voices
Sunday 7 June brings Cholet’s inaugural Pride (La Voix du cœur) with a village at Jardin du Mail from 12:00 and a 14:00 start; Calais holds its fourth Pride the same day. The weekend of 13 June extends from Corsica (Ajaccio / Marchja di è fiertà by ARCU LGBTI+ Corsica) to Auxerre (fourth edition at Place de la République), Dijon and Perpignan (village and evening party), Biarritz (16:00 start from the Grande Plage), Périgueux (15:00 from Esplanade Badinter with an after-Pride featuring queen Elips at 18:00) and first-time Montauban Pride. The rural Dordogne village Saint-Avit-Sénieur organizes a “Pride des champs,” a queer rural festival. On 14 June Paris hosts the return of the Pride radicale, which declares itself anti-system and repeats its call: “Anti-guerre et contre les génocides : pour la dignité de tous·tes les migrant·es et une décolonisation globale.”
Late June to September: national capitals, coastal parades and special events
From 20 June through month-end, major urban Prides and regional marches continue. Montpellier’s program starts on Friday 19 with a village at Jardins du Peyrou at 15:00 and a Queer Night at 19:00; Saturday 20 opens with a noon march, evening concerts and an “after Pride all winners” featuring the four winners of Drag Race France. Strasbourg’s festival is coordinated by FestiQueer while Rouen foregrounds the demand “VIH : pas d’économies sur nos vies” with a village from 11:00 at Square Verdrel. Rennes’ ISKIS center calls to “Face aux violences : queer multi-discriminé·es unissons-nous !” and starts speeches at 13:00 before marching at 14:00. Vesoul will host its first Pride and other events take place in Grenoble, Brest, Chalon-sur-Saône and Guéret (Creuse).
End-of-month and summer dates
Paris’ main Pride organized by Inter-LGBT closes a week of activities on 27 June, while Lyon features two separate marches that day including one by the Collectif Fiertés en Lutte. Other late-June parades include Lorient, Nîmes, Amiens, Tourcoing, Carcassonne, Saint-Gaudens, Albi, Sallanches, Le Puy-en-Velay and Kourou (second Pride in Guyane). Early July sees Marseille’s slogan “Aucune marche arrière” and a free concert from 19:00 on 4 July, Quimper’s Queer Amann at Place de la Résistance and Roanne’s second rural Pride. Nice (Pink parade from the port) and Lyon hold marches on 11 July. Rural communities continue to mobilize with the fifth edition of the Pride rurale in Chenevelles on 25 July, and the Pontrieux march in the Côtes-d’Armor on 26 July. Finally, the Global Black Pride takes place in Paris on 12 September, a global march focused on Black queer and trans experiences held in France this year.
This calendar aims to gather the many expressions of visibility, solidarity and activism that mark the 2026 season. For corrections or additions—especially for smaller local or rural events—please contact us so we can keep this list up to date and as inclusive as the movements it maps.