LGBT Paris | Gui to the bt gay and lbian venu Paris | Time Out Paris

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• GAY PARIS
• PARIS GAY PRI

GAY PARIS

In the early 1900s, gay people gathered Montmartre and Pigalle. In the mid-20th century the gay Paris moved to Sat Germa s Près the 6th arrondissement, and by the 1960s had shifted to Rue Sat Anne, the 1st and 2nd arrondissement.

Until the end of the 18th century France, laws ranked homosexual relatns among crim servg ath. Sentenced to ath, homosexuals were strangled and then burned.

In Europe, homosexualy was only allowed to the aristocracy, kgs and their royal urt.

PARIS GAY PRI

July 6, 1750 tak place the last French public executn for reason of homosexualy, Paris. The French Revolutn crimalized homosexual relatns as early as 1791.

However, homosexuals and transvt were subjected to police harassment bee of the laws on sexual exhibn and sexual harm agast mors.

In 1942, the Vichy regime troduced for the first time different sexual majori for heterosexual and homosexual relatnships (this discrimatory legislatn remaed force until 1982). Moreover, portatn of homosexuals was wispread durg the Send World War, by the Third Reich, the Nazis.

Gay men, and to a lser extent lbians, were persecuted by the Nazis and were ultimately among the victims of the Nazi regime’s portatn policy. A 2009 study timat that between 5, 000 and 10, 000 homosexuals were sent to Nazi ncentratn mps.