35 French Gay Slang Words You Need to Know - Talk French

Contents:

• LE GAY PARIS
• 'GAY PAREE' TAK ON NEW MEANG
• 35 FRENCH GAY SLANG WORDS YOU NEED TO KNOW
• WHAT DO IT MEAN TO BE GAY? DEFN AND MEANG OF GAY
• WHAT THEY MEAN WHEN THEY SAY ‘GAY PAREE’
• [VOBULARY] GAY PARIS
• GAY
• GAY PARIS
• GAY PARIS - PARIS FOM

LE GAY PARIS

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Y, "Gay Paree" is a well-known "English" phrase, predatg by s the sexual meang of "gay. I rather thought that "Gay Paree" njured imag of the Moul Rouge Touloe Ltrec's time, or wild surrealist parti the time of Anaïs N.

Paris tourism officials want to give new meang to the term "Gay Paree.

'GAY PAREE' TAK ON NEW MEANG

"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.

"We want to create a gay iendly spir across the whole cy, " said Lrent Queige, one of the project's anizers at Cy Hall. "It's an entire marketg mpaign voted to gay tourism: promotns, brochur, media trips, Web s, tour packag. 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. After nveng a meetg of experts on gay tourism last month at Cy Hall for an ial brastormg ssn, a marketg blz was born.

35 FRENCH GAY SLANG WORDS YOU NEED TO KNOW

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.

Ias also clu disunt tours geared to the nightclub scene and other Paris is payg special attentn to the Amerin gay muny. An outdated gui lled Gay Friendly France is beg revamped for circulatn at French tourism offic the Uned Stat as of June 2003.

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. Berl, London and Lisbon among others have geared marketg toward gay and lbian visors, particularly the Uned Stat, for years. "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.

WHAT DO IT MEAN TO BE GAY? DEFN AND MEANG OF GAY

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.

Signatori paste rabow-lored stickers their wdows wh the msage "Wele to Mans" and a sey face to let ctomers know they are gay iendly. "A wele sign for homosexuals?

Paris is a gay man's dream.

WHAT THEY MEAN WHEN THEY SAY ‘GAY PAREE’

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. 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. Plan your next stay gay Paris wh Out.

[VOBULARY] GAY PARIS

Paris is often lled “Gay Paree, ” wh “gay” meang happy, joyful and lively.

The mil Can-Can (1953), wh mic and lyrics by Cole Porter, clud the song “Who said Gay Paree? ” The movie Victor/Victoria (1982) clud the song “Gay Paree, ” sung by Robert Prton and wh mic by Henry Manci.

GAY

“Mak Bssels nearly as gay as Paris” was prted The Pennsylvania Packet, and Daily Advertiser (Philalphia, PA) on September 24, 1785. “The pk of gay Paris” was prted The Public Advertiser (London, UK) on September 6, 1790. “Th’acplish’d, gay Paree!

) have been, we’re rmed, gay Paree” was prted the New York Cy humor magaze Puck on September 3, 1879. Cometh home om gay ‘Paree, ’.

GAY PARIS

The term “gay Paree” soon appeared many newspapers, books, plays and songs.

GAY PARIS - PARIS FOM

The homosexual implitns of “gay Paree” have been popular sce at least the 1970s. “Gay Greenwich Village” is a siar term. Gay Paree.

Wgh Labels 21 There are good young men savg up their money for a beano ‘Gay Paree’. The number of foreigners of all ranks drawn hher by the approachg sale of the treasur, found the relig ho after their supprsn by his Imperial majty, mak Bssels nearly as gay as Paris, and certaly more so than London;... The pk of gay Paris, their Pks bought of me.