Toulouse Pride March 2025

On Saturday 7 June 2025, Les Abattoirs, Musée - Frac Occitanie Toulouse will be taking part in the Toulouse Pride March for the third year running. This year, the museum is teaming up with artists Damien Rouxel and Simon Makeup and the multi-disciplinary queer collective Griffes d'Anges to create a festive and subversive work depicting a queer agricultural world.

Inspired by the farm demonstrations of recent years, the float gives way to the tractor, playing with the symbols of the rural world by hijacking them in a spirit of joyful kitsch and protest. The aesthetics of the farming world mingle with the codes of queer culture, in a scenography that humorously overturns gender norms and stereotypes of the farming world.

Since it opened in 2000, Les Abattoirs has been fully committed to creativity, diversity and inclusiveness. These values are an integral part of our institution. Following on from the Nuit européenne des Musées 2025 (European Night of the Museums 2025), which included film screenings by the Pride Toulouse association and the exhibition celebrating 30 years of the Gay Pride March in Toulouse, ‘30 years of marching, 30 years of struggle’, Les Abattoirs is once again confirming its commitment to the expression of a plurality of voices and a culture that is accessible to all.

For the third year running, Les Abattoirs are renewing their support for the LGBTQIA+ community with the creation of this new artistic float by artist Damien Rouxel, in association with Simon Makeup and the Griffes d'Anges collective, which will be parading on Saturday 7 June during the Toulouse Pride March.

Damien Rouxel (1993) grew up on his family's farm, in a rural world whose codes he learned to make his own. This has inspired him to create performances and visual works exploring identity, gender and sexuality. Some of his works were shown in the exhibition ‘Artistes et paysans. Battre la campagne’. For this production, he is accompanied by the artist Simon Makeup.

The Griffes d'Anges collective, which has been working with Les Abattoirs for Pride for 3 years now, sees itself as a collaborative space where every form of art can be expressed and enriched.

Following the parade, the float will be presented on the Abattoirs forecourt, which will host the official after-party for the queer community of Toulouse and the surrounding area from 6.30pm to midnight. Admission is by ticket, which can be downloaded free of charge here:
After Pride Toulouse : Griffes D’Anges X Les Abattoirs, Toulouse · Billets Shotgun

Les Abattoirs would like to thank Damien Rouxel, Simon Makeup, Griffes d'Anges, as well as all the people, groups and partners who contributed to this new original and collective artistic project in support of the LGBTQIA+ community.

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