THE 10 BEST Paris Gay Clubs & Bars (Updated 2023) - Tripadvisor

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• THE 10 BEST PARIS GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS PARIS
• CLUBS ET BARS GAYS à PARISCLUBS ET BARS GAYS à PARIS
• A GAY BAR WH A CAVE: BEARS DEN, PARIS
• LE MARAIS: "GAY PARIS" AND THE CONSTCTN OF AN LGBTQIA+ MEC
• EXPLORE GAY ROOMS & RENTALS PARIS

THE 10 BEST PARIS GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS PARIS

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Bears Den is a gay bear bar the Marais (the gay district. Read the uncensored stori of Bears Den and get all the gay you need for a great gay Paris vatn.

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.

A GAY BAR WH A CAVE: BEARS DEN, PARIS

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.

This first gay neighborhoods were centered on La Butte Montmartre and Pigalle.

After the war, Paris’s -vogue gay neighborhood shifted for the first time to Sat-Germa-s-Prés (on the Left Bank of the See). This lotn was nsired by some to be Paris’s first gay neighborhood, sce s existence was the first to be “known to Parisians.

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

After spendg two s near l’Opéra, Paris’s first gay bar, Le Village, opened on Rue du Platre 1977 jt south of the Marais. Regardls of the reason, gay bs and life began to flourish jt a few blocks northeast Marais proper afterwards. It’s important to note that was gay bs (notably thanks to entreprenr David Girard) that created the Marais-As-Queer-Capal, and not the migratn of queer people’s livg quarters.

Not that many gay people live the Marais. In fact, the Marais isn’t even necsarily thought of as a rintial gay neighborhood, rather a gay center.

EXPLORE GAY ROOMS & RENTALS PARIS

Its shops and bars ter to a gay clientelle, but the rintial real tate wasn’t and isn’t overwhelmgly populated by gay people. Unlike New York’s Hell’s Kchen (prevly Chelsea, and the Wt Village before that), the Marais was always a place LGBT people, notably gay men, spent their ee time.

Helpful Vobulary When Talkg About Gay Life ParisUn marais - A swampUn hôtel particulier - A French mansn orlerally “a private hotel”L’âge d’or - The Goln age Un bar - A barAller boire un verre - To go get a drkPrendre un verre - To have a drkAller en boîte - To go to the clubFaire la fête (tf*) - To partyRearch has shown that the number of same-sex hoeholds holdg PACS (pacte civil solidaré, or civil unns) is evenly distributed throughout the cy, ditg that gay people live everywhere throughout Paris, not exclively the Marais. Perhaps this rintial centralizatn is why Paris’s gay muny is nsired to be ls overt and ls anized pared to New York’s or Berl’s.

Dpe the Parisian gay scene potentially beg thought of as ls “out there” pared to other queer pals, s existence is still ccial to LGBTQIA+ inty and muny France and around the world. Regardls of where the “gayborhood du jour” is, the queer spac help create a llective queer inty where people n be who they were born to be. Travel, French CultureJune 4, 2021JP Lguisticsgay paris, gay ance, pri, paris pri, ance pri, ance, Paris, paris travel, paris geography, geography.