In June 2025, Inter-LGBT attributed the controversy surrounding the Paris Pride poster to its opponents. A year later, after an investigative commission, several expulsions and a deep internal reorganization, the inter-associative acknowledges implicitly that the crisis was also within itself, and relearns the art of rallying around Pride.
Seeing Valérie Pécresse kick off the Paris Pride is, to say the least, unexpected. A year ago, it would have seemed unthinkable. And yet, this Thursday, June 25, it was indeed at the Hôtel de Région that Inter-LGBT chose to hold its press conference on the Pride march of 2026, alongside the Île-de-France president who was the right-wing Les Républicains (LR) candidate in the last presidential election. A powerful symbol: last year, the same Valérie Pécresse announced the withdrawal of the region’s subsidies to Inter-LGBT following a controversy provoked by the Pride march poster.
At the time, the inter-associative organizer of the Paris Pride had denounced a political offensive led by the right and the far right. A year later, the internal changes undertaken tell a more complex story. An investigative commission, exclusions, resignations, the return of former militants, reconciliation with the Paris LGBTQI+ Center, rapprochement with institutional and economic partners: the poster affair acted as a catalyst for a deeper crisis that ran through the organization.
The Pride 2025 Poster
To understand the scale of the journey, one must rewind. Unveiled on the front page of L’Humanité, the Pride 2025 poster depicted a group of six people delivering a knockout blow to a man who was meant to embody the international reactionary. Under the slogan “Queers of all countries, unite”, the symbols featured on the image went far beyond LGBT+ topics, notably including an Islamic veil and pins representing a yellow vest, opposition to pension reform, the red triangle of deported communists that Jean-Luc Mélenchon now wears, and the Palestinian flag. An intersectional kaleidoscope intended to represent “the convergence of struggles to which the Inter-LGBT is attached”, then justifies the Inter-LGBT president, Alexandre Schon.
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Sophie Brennan