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 APTAA (whose mission is to enhancee the sharing of HIV treatments in Africa) and Le Refuge, which assists young LGBT+ people, aged 14 to 25, rejected by their parents and expelled from the family home.