Cultural associations Paris

ARDHIS, a mixed-sex association, fights to defend the right to live in France of foreign homosexuals and trans people, whether they are living in a couple with a French national or a foreigner, or have fled a country where homosexuality is repressed. Many LGBT nationals come from countries where the simple fact of being gay jeopardizes their freedom or their lives. The association takes part in the fight against any discrimination linked to sexual, political, racial or religious orientation. Today, the association has over 300 members.

The LGBT association (lesbian lesbian bi and trans) inter-facs that brings together students from all the universities of Paris is organized around four poles called User Friendly (which organizes gatherings around a glass, free theme evenings for all as well as picnics), Cultural (which regularly organizes outings), Activist (which is designed to carry the values of the GLUP) and Preventive (which works with preventive medicines from the various universities in Paris). Quite active, GLUP organises free cinema sessions for its members (cinema-GLUP), apéri-GLUP, debates, outings, contests, meetings, evenings. It should also be noted that the GLUP publishes every three months its Ganymede magazine on culture and sexuality (http: //revue-ganymede.fr).

The AVF Paris-17e-8e-9e is an association that welcomes newcomers to these Paris neighborhoods. They organize a variety of activities including concerts, cultural outings and exhibitions. AVF Paris-17e-8e-9e is ready to welcome you and share the beauty of Paris with you.

AVF Paris XVème offers activities for newcomers to the 15th arrondissement of Paris, to help them integrate into the neighborhood and make new acquaintances.

The AVF Paris 8ème is a cultural association belonging to the national network of Accueils des Villes Françaises. Its aim is to welcome new residents to Paris and offer them friendly events to help them discover their new surroundings and make new friends. The association's website provides information on the dynamics of the network and the various AVF proposals across France. The AVFs operate on a voluntary basis and are committed players in their local communities.

Paris is home to the Association Végétarienne de France, a voluntary association that promotes vegetarianism. Based in the 10th arrondissement, the association offers information and resources for those wishing to adopt a vegetarian lifestyle. Their site also offers further information on vegetarianism and vegetarian recipes.

Contact (Paris and 14 antennae in the province) is an association animated by parents, which has been designed to help families understand and accept homosexuality from one of their own, and help them communicate with their parents or relatives, by providing them with the necessary understanding to better live their homosexuality, to fight against discrimination. Regular open meeting (noted on the website).

A protest political association is a tool of resistance and a political component of the fight for an alternative society. Lesbian, transsexual and gay excited by moral order, patriarchy, sexism, racism, all security, social regressions and everything else. The association, one of the oldest in the community, participates in numerous events and organizes APuPa, i. e. Public Gatherings of the Panthers, whose dates are on the site.

At Amnesty International, the Commission was established in 1997, following the decision taken in 1991 by the Amnesty International Assembly to defend people persecuted because of their homosexuality.

Born of the desire to offer gays the opportunity to gather in a spirit of conviviality, this association began in 1997. It allows everyone to find themselves in a variety of leisure activities as well as relaxation, resto, theatre, opera or cinema, museums visits, tours in Paris, weekends in the countryside, abroad and many other activities (bowling, swimming pool, bicycle…). Its principle is simple: every month, a schedule presenting the activities is distributed to fêteurs males. Each exit is proposed and organized by a participant who is the "focal point" (the organizer). With about 130 people from Paris and its suburbs, the association is open to all gay people who want to come and share moments of leisure. For newcomers, a welcome meeting and a reception drink are organised every month (detailed on the website).

The Mag is an association of young people between the ages of 16 and 26 whose vocation is to help other young people, gay and lesbian alike, and to fight against homophobia. Thanks to its reception centre and the proposed activities - outings, picnic, evenings, etc. - the Mag allows gay homosexual young people, or asks them to meet to discuss and share their questions or experiences. On the website, you can also find information on sexual orientation and gender identity, as well as a forum for discussion on various themes ranging from the discovery of its feelings to the coming out of the cinema, the cinema, the TV series, etc. Through a program of school interventions, volunteers from Mag raise awareness at the fight against school. homophobia and sexism and respect for differences. The Mag, created in 1985 under the name of Gay Gay Movement, received its approval «Youth and Popular Education» on 21 January 1999.

BI'Cause has been in Paris since late 1995 in the form of a group of discussions and meetings around bisexuality. At that time, he was called Groupe Bi. It was created on the initiative of people who did not recognize themselves as heterosexual or homosexual. Bi's aims to foster the emergence of bisexual identity, to fight and to inform about AIDS and stis.

The Lesbian and Gay Pride-Ile-de-France, created in 1999 and transformed into Inter-LGBT, organizes annually in Paris the annual visibility march bringing together gay, bisexual, transgender, their families and friends, more commonly known as Gaypride. But that is not everything. Every year in March or April, the Interassociative organises the LGBT Associations Spring - with conference and lounge day - and all year round, acts for the defence and conquest of lesbian and gay rights and against all forms of discrimination. Inter-LGBT also supports different associative projects.

This network of lesbians and gay people ready to offer each other hospitality during travel has 500 members (of which about 80 in France), spread in 30 countries. Born in 1991, she aims at the exchange of hospitality. The host offers a place to sleep - from the futon to the guest room. By welcoming someone at home, you can be welcomed back home. Beware, it is not a pay service. Each spring, a directory of members is published and distributed (exclusively) to the members up to date in their contributions. An update of this directory is published in the fall. A member planning to travel consults the directory and contact the member (s) in whom he or she wishes to stay. It is obvious that last minute solicitations are not always very popular and that there is a risk of a refusal. Members are required to respond to all requests for accommodation, whether the answer is positive or not. It is requested to limit a request for accommodation to two nights. Thus, if you have no affinity with your host, the embarrassment is limited (and they also feel more comfortable to accommodate). On the other hand, the host has the pleasure of offering guests the opportunity to extend their stay, which often happens.

A group of words consisting of women and men who were all victims of incest, or thought to have been, during childhood. They want to emerge from moral isolation, provide support to other victims and consider ways to overcome the painful consequences of this trauma, while contributing to the development of current knowledge about this crime. It should be noted that Arevi is an association that addresses both LGBT populations and heterosexual populations.

SOS Homophobia is an association of 1901 anti-homophobic and anti-profiteering acts. Created on 11 April 1994 and based in Paris, SOS Homophobia has developed several regional delegations (www.sos-homophobie.org/delegations-regionales) to ensure the relay of its interventions and actions to combat homophobia with a view to better acceptance of the diversity of sexual orientations and to fight for the visibility and equal rights of LGBT people. SOS Homophobia is convinced that the fight against homophobia requires an ambitious prevention policy (www.sos-homophobie.org/prevenir-lhomophobie): explain diversity, reassure, raise awareness of the acceptance of sexual orientation and gender identity. Many awareness-raising tools are prepared and proposed in particular in school settings (www.sos-homophobie.org/interventions-en-milieu-scolaire/interventions-en-milieu-scolaire), in various professional contexts (www.sos-homophobie.org/interventions-et-formations-pour-adultes) and event. To conduct its operations, SOS Homophobia conducts actions on several fronts thanks to the efforts of a dozen groups and commissions (www.sos-homophobie.org/fonctionnement-de-lassociation). A listening line (www.sos-homophobie.org/ligne-decoute), moderated by trained activists, is open daily so that victims and witnesses of homophobic or transphobes acts can obtain information, attentive listening or reporting. A group dedicated to online testimonials (www.sos-homophobie.org/temoigner) allows victims to contact the association via the website. Finally, SOS homophobia can accompany victims in daily affairs and the association is empowered to become a civil party to victims of homophobic acts. SOS Homophobia also conducts actions to prevent homophobia and transphobie with the Commission Intervention in the School Environment (www.sos-homophobie.org/interventions-en-milieu-scolaire/interventions-en-milieu-scolaire) to dismantle stereotypes and ideas received which form the breeding ground for homophobia in school. The Commission Intervention and Vocational Training for Adults (www.sos-homophobie.org/interventions-et-formations-pour-adultes) work to integrate the fight against homophobic discrimination into professional practices. The Lesbophobie Commission (www.sos-homophobie.org/commission-lesbophobie) combating specific discrimination against lesbians by creating information and communication media and participating in round tables, debates, events… The Commission'adolescents and homophobia ' (www.sos-homophobie.org/adolescence-et-homophobie) offers specific support via its website (www.cestcommeca.net) which makes available information, testimonies, cultural resources, etc. SOS homophobia conducts surveys and surveys, identifies and analyzes several publications (www.sos-homophobie.org/nos-publications), such as the Annual Report on Homophobia (www.sos-homophobie.org/rapportannuel), the Practical Guide to Homophobia (www.sos-homophobie.org/guide-pratique) and a survey on lesbophobie (www.sos-homophobie.org/enquete-sur-la-lesbophobie/enquete-sur-la-lesbophobie). SOS Homophobia advocates equal rights: It works with the public authorities and associations, thanks also to the efforts of the Evènementiel and Communication Commissions. In order to raise public awareness of the causes that it defends, in 2010/2011, the association demonstrated and participated in various events such as the Parcours in Lyon, the International Day against Homophobia, LGBT Pride Marches and Gay Pride Marches in Paris as in the region, the Day of Fight against AIDS, the Spring of LGBT Associations in Paris or the First LGBT Salon from Lille. Mainly composed of volunteers, SOS Homophobia is open to everyone, all across France. 

The Paris Gay and Lesbian Centre is a Volunteer association that has existed for 18 years. It is a place of reception, support and listening to the lesbian, gay, bi and trans-national population of Paris and the Paris region. It is also a centre of information on various areas such as health, labour law or law in general, gay politics or culture. Advice and legal assistance are provided through professional hotlines provided by professionals. The room houses a café-library that occasionally serves as a place of exposure and debate that is open to all. The LGBT Centre is also organizing cultural, sports and festive events. Finally, it is also a house of associations that accommodates many of them.

Popingays or PIG is an open association "to boys who love boys who love girls who love girls who love boys who love girls who love pop." This is to say if they are open! Pop, rock and rock are what unites them. A number of evenings are organized: tea dancing every two months, Queer as Pop, three times a year, and others more irregularly.

Dinners, meetings, debates around a film or with personalities from the literary, artistic or political world. Cultural and militant, this association concerns all those, gay and lesbian Armenians living in France who are interested in Armenia, its culture and the Franco-Armenian community.

This association brings together over 1200 taxpayers and 120 heritage management advisors, notaries and lawyers. Its objectives are to provide members with a national network of experts (taxation, notarial rights, tax relief, heritage management) in order to make them benefit from negotiations obtained from financial institutions (bank loans, funds, insurance), to make lobbying in favour of the ACAP alignment on marriage, and to encourage the financing of companies offering products or services dedicated to the homosexual community: Tourism, services, real estate…