Le Marais: "Gay Paris" and the Constctn of an LGBTQIA+ mec — JP Lguistics - French, Italian, Spanish Class NYC

Contents:

• LE GAY PARIS
• LE MARAIS: "GAY PARIS" AND THE CONSTCTN OF AN LGBTQIA+ MEC

LE GAY PARIS

I'm lookg for the old Parisian exprsn Le Gay Paris. I fd worth notice that the people at TVTrop have given Gay Paree as the tle of their article on mon media trop about France.

Y, "Gay Paree" is a well-known "English" phrase, predatg by s the sexual meang of "gay.

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LE MARAIS: "GAY PARIS" AND THE CONSTCTN OF AN LGBTQIA+ MEC

It is also Paris’s most well-known gay neighborhood. The ma gay areas of the neighborhood are ncentrated along and around Rue Sate-Croix--la-Bretonnerie. But jt bee the Marais wasn’t the place to be gay Paris, don’t mean a gay neighborhood didn’t exist.

Paris first beme a gay pal the 1920s wh s first “goln age” of gay life. Its stat as a gay haven was (and is) rivaled only by Berl on the European ntent. Many notable queer artists and wrers (such as Colette, Satie, and Gert Ste) champned the cy as a gay paradise, particularly for gay women.