At the Usine, the mecca of Geneva‘s alternative culture, a new club called Le Kauri practices an unprecedented pricing policy: out of 200 tickets available during each evening, priced between 5 and 15 francs, 20 seats are the cheapest low height. reserved for LGBT+ and racist audiences. The Shell Collective, which manages the place, explained its approach to the RTS. It is about “encouraging the participation of communities who, statistically, have difficulty accessing cultural spaces due to structural inequalities in our society”.
This device is valued differently. The President of the PLR City of Geneva, Maxime Provini is critical. He believes that wanting to fight discrimination creates a new one. Adrian Stiefel, head of the Geneva LGBTI Antenna, considers the resolution “admirable” but wonders if this differentiated pricing policy will not create “separation”. For Sami Kanaan, a socialist administrative consultant who is in charge of Culture, he sees favorably that this system “stimulates a debate about discrimination that is unfortunately still true”, and this without preventing access to this or that category of the population.