Night prides (French: prides de nuit) are protest demonstrations of LGBTI people alternative to the Pride marches, which are considered depoliticized.[1]

Night Pride
Native name Pride de nuit
LocationFrance
TypeDemonstration

The movement was launched by ACT UP, OUTrans, Femmes en Lutte 93 and other associations in Paris in 2015, opposing what they perceived as a depoliticization of Pride marches and their loss of autonomy against public powers and pink capitalism.[2][3][4][5][6][7][8]

In Paris, two other editions were organized in 2016 and 2017, although in 2018 they decided not to summon a fourth protest in order to avoid converting it in a symbolic institutionalized event that would not lead to do other actions.[8] However, since 2016 the movement were already extended to other French cities, such as Toulouse, Lyon or Nice.[9][10][11][12]

There are similar actions in other countries too,[13] specially in the context of the movement Gay Shame.[14]

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  1. ^ "Marche des fiertés : " Il n'y a pas de contradiction entre les dimensions festive et politique "". Le Monde (in French). 24 June 2017.
  2. ^ "Gay Pride : où sont les revendications politiques ? Notre "Pride de nuit" les rappelle". L'Obs (in French). 26 June 2015.
  3. ^ "La Marche des fiertés cherche un second souffle". Le Figaro (in French). 27 June 2015.
  4. ^ "En photos: Une Pride de nuit où les "fiertés ne sont pas racistes"". Yagg (in French). 27 June 2015.
  5. ^ "La Pride de Nuit, la "coalition des non-conformes", défile ce soir". Têtu (in French). 23 June 2017.
  6. ^ "Pride de nuit : revenir aux racines de la lutte LGBT". L’Humanité (in French). 25 June 2017.
  7. ^ "Pourquoi ils ont manifesté à la pride de nuit ?". Street Press (in French). 27 June 2017.
  8. ^ a b "La Pride de nuit est-elle toujours la version radicale de la " Gay Pride " ?". VICE (in French). 16 June 2018.
  9. ^ "La préfecture va-t-elle autoriser les militants LGBTQI à défiler dans le centre-ville de Toulouse ?". La Dépêche (in French). 16 May 2018.
  10. ^ "Pourquoi une Pride de nuit à Lyon avant la Marche des Fiertés LGBT ?". Hétéroclite (in French). 8 June 2018. Archived from the original on 2 December 2022. Retrieved 22 March 2019.
  11. ^ "La marche des fiertés "à la reconquête" du vieux-Lyon" (in French). 10 June 2018.
  12. ^ "Pride de Nuit – Nice". ADN. Association pour la Démocratie à Nice (in French). 21 June 2018. Archived from the original on 22 March 2019. Retrieved 22 March 2019.
  13. ^ "LGBT Night March decries Pride's corporate sponsorship". The Star. 28 June 2016.
  14. ^ "The Year Queers Fought the De-Politicization of Pride". Huffington Post. 28 June 2012.