A walk-in LGBTQIA+ centre on Avenue Colbert in Toulon, run by the Planning Familial Varois and housed inside its rooms. It opened in 2024, after five years in which the associations of the department had been working together as a network.
Nineteen of them sit in that network and use the place: AIDES, SOS Homophobie, Trans-Mission Var, Autres Regards, the CIDFF, the local CeGIDD, the Collectif Fiertes Toulon and La Maison LGBTQIA+ de Toulon among them. The centre runs a listening and information service, discussion groups and medical consultations by appointment, and puts on an apero once a month, queer open mic evenings and film screenings. It also trains professionals and goes into schools.
It calls itself an inclusive and safe space, and that is the shape of it: somewhere to go for advice, for a talk or for company, rather than a night out. The logo is a Provencal cicada with rainbow wings.
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