Buy Le be vice, ou, L homosexuels a la ur France (Le rayon gay) (French Edn) Book By: Cl Pastr

Contents:

• LE BE VICE, OU, L HOMOSEXUELS A LA UR FRANCE (LE RAYON GAY) (FRENCH EDN)
• THE 5 BEST MOSW GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS MOSW
• HISTOIR GAYS (32 RULTS)

LE BE VICE, OU, L HOMOSEXUELS A LA UR FRANCE (LE RAYON GAY) (FRENCH EDN)

I was armed wh two key documents: a letter of troductn om the enomist Nicholas Kaldor to the former French prime mister Pierre Mendès France, and a py of the Spartac Gay Gui for one of the risg stars of French polics the 1930s, Mendès France had been an enomic adviser to the French Prime Mister Léon Blum; he was also the one of the first French policians to have assiated Keyn. I was momentarily enuraged by the fact that my prec gui revealed the ma gay bars to be suated the Rue St Anne, which is only one street away om the Biblthèque natnale where I was sure to spend a lot of time. I prsed the buzzer, and after beg sctized through a small openg I was let and rmed that entry required me to jo an anizatn lled CLESPALA – the myster ials were those of the Club Ltéraire et Scientifique s Pays Lats (Lerary and Scientific Club of the Lat Countri) – and gave one the right to receive a monthly review which proclaimed self the an of the ‘Mouvement Homophile France’.

THE 5 BEST MOSW GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS MOSW

Subsequent viss I me to experience the oddi of Ardie – the cur but charmg danse du tapis4 or the fact that once a month, on Friday evengs before the dancg started, the Print of the CLESPALA, a middle-aged man lled André Bdry, would mount the stage and lnch to a lecture which he often worked himself up to a enzy of rage directed agast homosexuals whose behavur he nsired disreputable: he seemed particularly to dislike street monstratns, long hair and pk troers.

HISTOIR GAYS (32 RULTS)

The closed atmosphere of the Rue St Anne was givg way to the more welg bars of the Marais, still Paris's gay village today, but I mt have ntued sometim to vis Ardie sce I still posss my pi of s review for subsequent years.

A ltle rearch ma clear that Ardie, found 1954, was one of a number of self-signated ‘homophile’ anizatns found var untri the 1950s to fend the rights of homosexuals – groups like Der Kreis Swzerland, the Mattache Society Ameri, the COC Holland. Many of them have been wrten about, but not Ardie spe the fact that s longevy and s size – over the years touched the liv of tens of thoands of French homosexuals – make certaly the most important of the anizatns.