Lyon and Villeurbanne were meant to march on 27 June 2026. Two days before, the Collectif Fiertés en Lutte and more than twenty groups taking part called it off: a week of heatwave had come before it and the civil protection services had advised against holding it. The march now takes place on Saturday 10 October 2026, the only autumn date the organisers found that still fell on a Saturday. They chose that over a Sunday so that people who depend on regional trains and coaches can get there. The basics are on our event page. This is what the organisers have published for the day itself.
Times and route
The meeting point is the Gratte-Ciel stop on metro line A in Villeurbanne. Speeches begin at 13:00 and the march leaves at 14:00. According to the organisers' page, it follows the Cours Émile Zola, the Cours Vitton and the Cours Franklin Roosevelt as far as Foch, then turns up along the Rhône and ends at the Parc de la Tête d'Or, at the Porte des Enfants du Rhône, where an association village is set up. Earlier plans had it finishing on the place du Maréchal Lyautey; the park is the finish on the current page and on the poster. The whole route is given as 3.8 km, all on tarmac. There is very little shade before Charpennes, there are few public toilets anywhere along the way, and the street narrows after Masséna until the Cours Franklin Roosevelt begins. The Lyon tourist office lists the day as running from 12:00 to 22:00.
This is the 30th edition. Its slogan, "Canicule et fascismes nous butent !", links the heat that cost the June date to the far right, and the call to march is made in the name of sex workers and trans people.
Access and conduct
Two cortèges are quieter than the rest. The Handi cortège makes less noise and requires masks; the calm cortège asks for them. Each has a vehicle for people with reduced mobility, though not one adapted for wheelchair users. Volunteers hand out ear defenders, ear plugs and FFP2 masks. Speeches are interpreted into French Sign Language, and an interpreter walks with the Handi cortège for the whole march. Around twenty French Red Cross first aiders and several street medics follow the route and wait at the start and the finish. Stewards wear coloured armbands.
Some cortèges are non-mixed, reserved for the people whose demands they carry, and the organisers ask everyone else to stay out of them. Nobody should be photographed or filmed without their consent, and faces are to be blurred before anything is shared online.
Lyon for a visitor
Line A runs straight from Gratte-Ciel back to Hôtel de Ville, and almost every bar we list is in the 1st arrondissement within a short walk of that stop: Broc Bar on Rue Lanterne, L'Etoile Opera on Rue de l'Arbre Sec, L Bar food & drink on Rue du Garet, It Bar on the Montée Saint-Sébastien and Queen Club on Rue Terme. XS Bar is a few streets south in the 2nd. The two saunas, Oasis Club Sauna and Double Side, are in the 1st as well, and so is the cruising bar Le Trou. The collective is gathering a list of after-parties for the evening and will share those that meet its charter.
France
France scores 60.25 on ILGA-Europe's Rainbow Index. Same-sex couples have been able to marry and adopt since 2013, and since 2016 a change of legal gender no longer requires medical treatment. More on our France page.
The same afternoon in Chambéry
The Lyon organisers point marchers towards Chambéry Pride, 87 km away, which meets on the same day at 14:00 on the Place de la Brigade de Savoie.