Gay Village (Montreal) - All You Need to Know BEFORE You Go

Contents:

• PARIS GAY DISTRICT: LE MARAIS
• THE 10 BEST PARIS GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS PARIS
• GAY TOURS IN ENGLISH
• GAY PARIS
• GAY NATURIST MEN OFFERG YOU THE E OF A GUT ROOM
• 'GAY PAREE' TAK ON NEW MEANG
• TORONTO GAY DISTRICT: THE VILLAGE
• GAY VILLAGE
• FAR BEYOND THE GAY VILLAGE: LGBTQ URBANISM AND GENERATN MONTRéAL’S MILE END

PARIS GAY DISTRICT: LE MARAIS

The Marais, a rintial and entertament district for the LGBTQ+ muny; Pigalle and s former lbian barets; the Palais Royal, the place for male enunters the 18th century, and even Père Lachaise cemetery wh s tombs of well-known gay ins … Gay Paris has existed for a very long time and a range of guid tours now allows visors to disver s Gay VillageOne of the bt ways of disverg gay and lbian Paris is wh Paris Gay Village. Explore the quarter of the Malee and learn all about Jean Cocte’s life; walk around Sat-Germa-s-Prés, the hub of the LGBT muny the 1950s and 60s; and stroll through cemeteri on the lookout for the tombs of homosexual upl, uned for eterny…More on Paris Gay VillageMeetg the FrenchWant to disver the secrets of the Marais? The gay-iendly guid vis offered by Meetg the French allows visors to disver this historic district through s bars, clubs, rtrants and LGBTQ+ related stor.

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

The most vibrant gay scene is centered Le Marais, which featur a clter of art galleri, fashn ho, fe rtrants, and some of the most luxur shoppg the world.

GAY TOURS IN ENGLISH

Stay at the gay-iendly Hotel Jul & Jim and vis the sexually-charged, male-only TiL'T Sna, which hosts regular foam parti for all ag -- or dance the night away at the historic Queen dis. Hugely popular wh Bourgeois Bohemian Parisians and the gay muny, is also the cy’s most proment Jewish quarter, a mag for tourists, and a district that is steeped history. Wh s vibrant gay muny, lightful rtrants, welg bars, trendy shops and bookstor, the Marais neighbourhood boasts a unique ambience that is at once joyo and elegant.

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GAY PARIS

The major gay neighborhood, and the one that never sleeps, is the Marais, a once primarily Jewish district that sce the 1980s has been known for s many gay bars, loung and sex clubs. L Hall, to the wt of the Marais, is an even olr gay part of town, but tth you'll fd a smatterg of gay nightlife most sectns of of the central cy.

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GAY NATURIST MEN OFFERG YOU THE E OF A GUT ROOM

Gay B&B (28 e la Fontae Roi), gay hoehold apartment share near place la République; private room/balny/toilet, your own keys, WiFi nnectn, terrace cy views, livgroom/ kchen accs, breakfast served on your schle. Hotel Louvre Richeli (51 e Richeli; 331-4297-4620), rooms near Opera, Palais Royal Garns, Louvre, Galleri Lafayette; gay-iendly, multi-lgual staff, WiFi, breakfast. Le Banana Cafe (13 e la Ferronnerie), young gay and mixed crowd, mostly guys and iends; affable staff, energetic go-go dancers, Oriental Ssns Middle-East/Asian mic nights, quieter chill-out piano bar downstairs.

El Hombre (15 e la Reynie), gay tapas bar for bears, mic, nightly happy hours, nversatn-level mic, dance nights, drag and special events; smokers' pat. Gossip (16 e s Lombards), fe/ rtrant on by pestrian street, gay-popular vered terrace; men, women young and chic mix; breakfast, bnch and cktails, WiFi accs.

The Labo (37 e s Lombards), day and night gay sports and karaoke men's bar, varied mic, special parti, large terrace on pestrian street, theme nights, former Wolf se. CLOSED: Feelg Bar (43 e Ste-Croix--la-Bretonnerie), hole--the-wall gay neighborhood favore; Spyce Bar (23 e Ste-Croix--la-Bretonnerie), DJ cktail lounge, mostly men, baret, go-go dancers. M'sirs Dam (30 ave Parmentier), neighborhood LGBT bar, DJ sets, gam, drag, theme party nights; QueerMs, DRH, Karaogay, Bragi Pufferfish crew and Hole Inclive events.

'GAY PAREE' TAK ON NEW MEANG

Krash (12 e Simon Le Franc), Marais gay fetish, cise and sex club; total-black-out, bber, leather, sports, naked and unrwear party nights - the former QG bar.

Gib (18 e du Fbourg du Temple, Marais), Tuday + Thursday-Saturday gay Hoe and Pop dance club near place la Republique; weekends until 7am wh sexy performers, theme nights and special events, cludg BBB, Dence, It's B* Party, MECX, Menergy, ORGY, Utopia, and more.

La Boe a Frissons at Tango Ballroom (13 e Maire) Friday/ Saturday all-ag gay dance nights, tangos, waltz, cha-chas until 1am, then '70s, '80s pop hs. Le Queen (22 e Quent Bchard, off av s Champs Elyse), mixed crowd, gay-iendly, large dance club, open nightly; Sundays ADN Deep Hoe & Hip-Hop mic. Sna Mykonos (71 e s Martyrs), zy homo enclave otherwise mostly hetero Pigalle, patrons always naked; sna, hammam, bs, slg, glory hol, vios, juice bar.

TORONTO GAY DISTRICT: THE VILLAGE

Tilt Sna (41 e Sate Anne), France's first gay sna sce 1974, open daily noon to 7am, near Palais Royal amid the many Japane shops and rtrants, open all day and all night; steam, sna, cubicl, slg, backroom, glory hol and porn vios.

Café Voulez-Vo (18 e du Temple), Le Marais gay fé/bar, Italian menu, food service until midnight, weekend bnch, laid-back mostly male crowd. Jaja (37, e Qumpoix), gay-favoured chic bistro, seclud garn pat, seasonal anic menu, genero and creative artisan plat, extensive we list. Le Who's (14 e Sat Merri), bar/rtrant open daily/nightly noon to 6am, Saturday and Sunday bnch, gay-central between L Hall and Le Marais, old Curix Spaghetti se.

Legay Choc (45 e Ste-Croix la Bretonnerie, Marais) handma breads, irristible quich, k and tarts of many flavors; penis-shaped bagett, brch, and mergu sell out fast. IEM (16 e Ste-Croix la Bretonnerie; 43 e l'Arbre-Sec), big gay DVD sectn, sex magaz, books, ics, guis, toys, accsori, unrwear, pl latex and bber attire and gear. To help ensure you n travel and feel wele anywhere, addn to our gay and gay-iendly hosts, we’ve selected agenci to offer apartments ci across the world.

GAY VILLAGE

"The French pal has always wooed visors wh s reputatn for fe dg and high fashn, and Paris ntually sh on s mystique as the land of love and, Cy Hall has a new strategy: sellg Paris as a leadg statn for gay travelers. At the mayor's office and the tourism bure, which has fund a prs junket this week for journalists om Amerin gay publitns, officials ll the next ontier of tourism.

Officials Paris say they are enuraged by a trend toward greater tolerance but are still battlg nservatism and Mayor Bertrand Delanoe, when elected last year beme the cy's first openly gay mayor and proudly led this summer's Gay Pri para. Delanoe uldn't attend a meetg last month to gurate the gay-iendly tourism mpaign bee he was recuperatg om a stabbg attack by a man who said he disliked overall challenge for officials workg on the mpaign is to tweak the image of a cy famo for photographs like the 1950 Robert Doisne snapshot of a man and woman stealg a kiss cintally ont of Cy have only begun turng on the project, which is not to be publicly lnched until June 2003.

FAR BEYOND THE GAY VILLAGE: LGBTQ URBANISM AND GENERATN MONTRéAL’S MILE END

Travel agents that ter to gay clients are planng package tours to ci wh summer ftivals like Gay Pri para, which last June drew a rerd half-ln people. The Maison la France Los Angel is workg wh Amerin tour operators and helped anize this week's fully paid trip to France for gay media on the theme of gay is hardly the first European pal to target the gay tourist. "We're not dog discreetly, " said Natascha Kompatzki, a spokwoman for Berl's tourist office, addg that gays are "an important group" for the German pal.

Berl's mayor, Kls Wowere, is openly gay and marched Berl's Gay Pri para this and Berl, like Paris, have proment gay districts, which are featured on their tourism Web s along wh listgs for gay-iendly hotels and those ci have a natural advantage, said Remi Calmon, a spokman for France's 600-member Natnal Unn of Gay Bs. "`The French are not always -- how shall I say this -- the nict people, " said Calmon, whose group is part of Paris' gay-iendly planng mtee. Details of how to make Paris more people-iendly were still beg worked out, he ia that has sparked great tert was dreamed up the small Loire Valley cy of Le Mans, bt known for s 24-hour to s own missn to attract gay tourism, Le Mans Cy Hall has drafted a "Lbian and Gay Friendly Wele Charter, " which they mailed to lol merchants this fall.