Activists in France demand justice

PARIS: While the French capital’s official Pride event, organised by the INTER-LGBT group, was delayed until November to prevent the spread of Covid-19, grassroots groups marched through Paris yesterday – led by people of colour.

The activists marched to “re-politicise” the movement, and joined with groups campaigning for the rights of migrants, sex workers and minority or marginalised communities in France’s impoverished suburbs.

The first Pride march took place June 28, 1970, a year after the 1969 uprisings at the Stonewall Inn, a gay bar in New York, which were led by transwomen of colour. That helped propel what’s become a global LGBTQ movement.