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RENT RIS FORCE REVERED LGBT BOOKSHOP OUT OF PARIS'S GAY DISTRICT
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In the wdow of France’s bt-known gay bookshop, above the display of Lucian Frd art books, opera sger Maria Callas’s memoirs and a history of the Pri movement, a poster warns giant red letters: “Cultural herage danger. ”L Mots à La Bouche, a 40-year-old Paris stutn, is the top LGBT bookshop France and nsired one of the bt the world – a fol pot of Paris’s historic gay neighbourhood the Marais district. But as property speculatn central Paris reach dizzyg heights – is timated that at certa tim of year there are more Airbnb rentals than rints the Marais – the bookshop is beg forced out by risg parture is a blow to Paris’s gay muny as activists warn that central Paris is stroyg s cultural inty by allowg luxury fashn shops aimed at rich tourists to force out lol bs, cludg gay the lol baret star, Yvette Leglaire, said: “The gay Marais is dyg.
” The Paris tourist board still promot the Marais as “an thentic yet trendy ltle village” but s gay scene, which began the 1980s when the area was still workg class, shabby and cheap, is slowly beg erod. Several historic gay bars have closed recent years as fashn labels om Laste to Chanel move Marais’ Jewish area, suated around Rue s Rosiers, is not immune, wh mercial rents doublg between 2012 and 2018. Sébastien Grisez, manager at L Mots à La Bouche, says: “Paris cy hall promot the gay history of the Marais and has pated the crossroads here rabow lours, but no longer havg our bookshop here seems absurd.
But like many historic gay bars that closed unr prsure om risg rents, the shop has been given until March to fd a new lotn elsewhere Paris. There are mours that a Doc Marten shoe shop will take s says: “Ten years ago, there were far more gay bars here, now only a few are left. It’s te that gay soclogy is changg – people are more spread out, there is perhaps ls need to meet bars when you n meet on apps.
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”At the Open Bar, a historic gay venue set up by rights activist Sébastien Fossa, the manager, says: “The neighbourhood is creasgly losg s soul. ”Fayçal Khiate, who ns nearby gay bar Cox, says: “When a bookshop leav, ’s daily neighbourhood life that will lose out.
This forced isolatn offers me only one pe: romance, and my se, gay romance. A bookstore wh 40 years of historyIn the 1980s, Jean-Pierre Meyer-Genton was a young lawyer, although he didn't really want to be one, but above all a passnate activist the French Gay Liberatn Group.