Photos: Paris Pride Highlights HIV/AIDS and Student Activism

Posted Tuesday, July 13, 2010 by Emily Rutherford

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  • Photos: Paris Pride Highlights HIV/AIDS and Student Activism

While Pride parades are rooted in American tradition, Paris showed last month that it too can celebrate LGBT culture.

Read: Emily Rutherford's report on the Paris Pride Parade, "Liberté! Egalité! Fierté!"

Photos by Emily Rutherford

Three young men march in the Pride parade.
Three young men march in the Pride parade.
Three young men march in the Pride parade.
Young Parisians demonstrate the integral role of drinking in the Pride parade.
Three young men march in the Pride parade.
Marchers carry signs reading "Close the Vatican, the Guantánamo of the mind," and "Love discriminates by neither sex nor color."
Three young men march in the Pride parade.
French HIV/AIDS activism organization asks, "Darling, what have you done about the virus?"
Three young men march in the Pride parade.
Three young Parisian women's response to homophobic graffiti in the street.
Three young men march in the Pride parade.
A young woman marches in the Pride parade.
Three young men march in the Pride parade.
Members of Inter-LGBT, France's largest LGBT rights organization, carry their organization's banner in the parade.
Three young men march in the Pride parade.
A marcher carries a sign advocating a (implicitly anti-Catholic) message of safer sex.
Three young men march in the Pride parade.
The float of French gay magazine Têtu is followed by crowds of young Parisians.
Three young men march in the Pride parade.
A balloon with the ACT-UP Paris logo flies over the Place de la Bastille at the end of the parade route.

Emily Rutherford is a staff writer for Campus Progress and a rising junior at Princeton University.

Emily is a staff writer for Campus Progress. She attends Princeton University.

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