Since 1996, in Paris, Les Caramels Fous, the LGBTQ musical comedy troupe, Équivox, the gay lesbian choir of Paris and Mélo'Men have been organising a big charity event called Les Voix contre le Sida (VCS). Each time, the profits are donated to associations involved in the fight against AIDS.

For this event, the beneficiary associations were : La maison de vie (a short-term refuge), Séropotes (an association that promotes exchanges between HIV-positive people, Les Sœurs de la perpétuelle indulgence (a movement engaged in the fight homophobia and HIV), and Acceptess-T, which is engaged in the struggle for the integration and against the exclusion of transgender people.