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"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.

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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.

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Ias also clu disunt tours geared to the nightclub scene and other Paris is payg special attentn to the Amerin gay muny.

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An outdated gui lled Gay Friendly France is beg revamped for circulatn at French tourism offic the Uned Stat as of June 2003.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. 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.

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THE H COMEDY SHOW 100% ENGLISH PARIS78COMEDY SHOWSOM $26.51 PER ADULTTHE DARKT SECRETS OF PARIS55HISTORIL TOURSOM $36.45 PER ADULTLE MARAIS/PARIS - THE HISTORIC, TRENDY, JEWISH, LGBT DISTRICT156ART TOURSOM $36.45 PER ADULTPARIS WH LOLS: LOUVRE PRIVATE TOUR WH A LOL145HISTORIL TOURSOM $189.98 PER ADULT (PRICE VARI BY GROUP SIZE)PARIS SIGHTSEEG GUID BIKE TOUR LIKE A PARISIAN WH A LOL GUI353CY TOURSOM $27.61 PER ADULTBEST SELLERLOUVRE MM TICKET & SEE RIVER CISE117MMSOM $55.12 PER ADULTPARIS WE TASTG PL CHEE LUNCH WH AN EXPERT SOMMELIER GUI67FOOD & DRKOM $87.26 PER ADULTPARIS SIGHTSEEG FAY FRIENDLY GUID ELECTRIC BIKE TOUR145E-BIKE TOURSOM $82.84 PER ADULTPARIS HIGHLIGHTS BIKE TOUR WH EIFFEL TOWER, LOUVRE AND NOTRE-DAME440HISTORIL TOURSOM $40.87 PER ADULTTHE GAY LOLSBOOKG UNAVAILABLE ON TRIPADVISORWANT OTHER OPTNS YOU N BOOK NOW?SHOW OPTNSTRAVELERS TALK ABOUT“THE GUYS”(4 REVIEWS)“AMAZG AFTERNOON”(2 REVIEWS)“LE MARAIS”(2 REVIEWS)CONTRIBUTEWRE A REVIEWUPLOAD A PHOTOREVIEWSQ&AFILTERSENGLISHMOST RECENTDETAILED REVIEWS: REVIEWS ORR RMED BY SCRIPTIVENS OF ER-INTIFIED THEM SUCH AS CLEANLS, ATMOSPHERE, GENERAL TIPS AND LOTN RMATN.POPULAR MENTNSTHE GUYSAMAZG AFTERNOONLE MARAISWALKG TOURSIGHT5.044 REVIEWSEXCELLENT41VERY GOOD0AVERAGE1POOR2TERRIBLE0AARON DCHIGO, IL1 NTRIBUTN0GREAT SERVICE!!JAN 2023BOOKED THE DAY TO NIGHT TOUR WH THE GUYS AND HAD AN AWOME TIME. WE SPENT THE LATE AFTERNOON TOURG AROUND THE CY CENTER AND THE SEE BEFORE CHECKG OUT THE MARAIS DISTRICT, WHICH IS HOME TO PARIS' GAY SCENE SCE THE 1970'S. AFTER THE WALKG TOUR PORTN WAS FISHED, WE SPENT AN HOUR BAR HOPPG AROUND CHECKG OUT THE LOL SCENE. DEFELY REMEND BOOKG WH THE GAY LOLS!READ MOREWRTEN JANUARY 14, 2023THIS REVIEW IS THE SUBJECTIVE OPN OF A TRIPADVISOR MEMBER AND NOT OF TRIPADVISOR LLC. TRIPADVISOR PERFORMS CHECKS ON REVIEWS AS PART OF OUR DTRY-LEADG TST & SAFETY STANDARDS. READ OUR TRANSPARENCY REPORT TO LEARN MORE.EPYOUNGPROFSNALEL PASO, TX5 NTRIBUTNS0BT GAY TOUR PARIS!APR 2022 • COUPLWE HAD A GREAT TIME WH JONATHAN! WE BOOKED A TOUR WH HIM FOR OUR FIRST NIGHT PARIS AND WAS REALLY HELPFUL TO GET THE SI SOP ON THE CY'S HISTORY, MT-SEE PLAC TO VIS (AND AVOID), AND THE OVERALL GAY SCENE. HAD THE BT TOUR AND END UP A THE OLT DRAG SHOW ART THE END OF THE NIGHT!READ MOREWRTEN APRIL 15, 2022THIS REVIEW IS THE SUBJECTIVE OPN OF A TRIPADVISOR MEMBER AND NOT OF TRIPADVISOR LLC. TRIPADVISOR PERFORMS CHECKS ON REVIEWS AS PART OF OUR DTRY-LEADG TST & SAFETY STANDARDS. READ OUR TRANSPARENCY REPORT TO LEARN MORE.LU G1 NTRIBUTN0WONRFUL AFTERNOON DISVERG LE MARAISMAR 2022SPENT AN AMAZG AFTERNOON DISVERG LE MARAIS WH JONATHAN. I REALLY ENJOYED HIS LOL SIGHTS AND HE TOOK ME THROUGH AREAS I WOULD NOT HAVE DISVERED ON MY OWN. OVERALL A GREAT EXPERIENCE I HIGHLY REMEND FOR ANYONE LOOKG TO DISVER THE CY THROUGH A LOL'S PERSPECTIVEREAD MOREWRTEN MARCH 31, 2022THIS REVIEW IS THE SUBJECTIVE OPN OF A TRIPADVISOR MEMBER AND NOT OF TRIPADVISOR LLC. TRIPADVISOR PERFORMS CHECKS ON REVIEWS AS PART OF OUR DTRY-LEADG TST & SAFETY STANDARDS. READ OUR TRANSPARENCY REPORT TO LEARN MORE.ADRIAN3 NTRIBUTNS1GREAT WELE TO A BETIFUL CY...MAR 2020 • SOLOJONATHAN WAS A GREAT HOST AND VERY ACMODATG, MAKG THE MOST OUT OF THE TOUR. IT WAS A PERFECT MIX OF HISTORIL AND PRACTIL RMATN LIVERED WH A SENSE OF HUMOUR (AND STYLE!) A LOVELY SIGHT TO THE PRETZELS AND ALL!READ MOREWRTEN MARCH 2, 2020THIS REVIEW IS THE SUBJECTIVE OPN OF A TRIPADVISOR MEMBER AND NOT OF TRIPADVISOR LLC. TRIPADVISOR PERFORMS CHECKS ON REVIEWS AS PART OF OUR DTRY-LEADG TST & SAFETY STANDARDS. READ OUR TRANSPARENCY REPORT TO LEARN MORE.STEVEN_AND_TOMSAN FRANCIS, CA17 NTRIBUTNS0TOUR OF FONTAEBLE - THE PALACE OF THE KGSFEB 2020 • COUPLJONATHAN AND BRYAN WERE GREAT TO ORDATE WH THE PLANNG OF A DAY TOUR OUT TO THE FONTAEBLE AREA AND THE PALACE. ON THE BIG DAY, JONATHAN ARRIVED EARLY AND WAS GRAC AND ENTHIASTIC TO MAKE THE DAY A MEMORABLE ONE. WE HAD A R ARRANGED AND HIS WTY STORI MA THE HOUR EACH WAY EVAPORATE. THE FUN AND BEHD THE SCEN MENTARY WAS TERTG AND NOTEWORTHY AND WE LEARNED SO MUCH JT HANGG OUT DURG THE TOUR AND OVER LUNCH. WE’D FELY BOOK JONATHAN AND THEIR TEAM AGA! MERCI BEUP!READ MOREWRTEN FEBARY 17, 2020THIS REVIEW IS THE SUBJECTIVE OPN OF A TRIPADVISOR MEMBER AND NOT OF TRIPADVISOR LLC. TRIPADVISOR PERFORMS CHECKS ON REVIEWS AS PART OF OUR DTRY-LEADG TST & SAFETY STANDARDS. READ OUR TRANSPARENCY REPORT TO LEARN MORE.IVAN3 NTRIBUTNS0PROFNALY AND URTY : HIGHLY REMEND!OCT 2019 • COUPLMY BOYIEND AND I TOOK A TOUR OF MONTMARTRE WH JONATHAN AND WAS AMAZG! IT WAS GREAT TO HAVE A GUI THAT KNOWS THE AREA SO WELL. WE HIGHLY REMEND THIS TOUR!!READ MOREWRTEN NOVEMBER 6, 2019THIS REVIEW IS THE SUBJECTIVE OPN OF A TRIPADVISOR MEMBER AND NOT OF TRIPADVISOR LLC. TRIPADVISOR PERFORMS CHECKS ON REVIEWS AS PART OF OUR DTRY-LEADG TST & SAFETY STANDARDS. READ OUR TRANSPARENCY REPORT TO LEARN MORE.MRCHRISAGUILARMIAMI, FL87 NTRIBUTNS4BT THG FOR MEJUN 2018 • SOLOI HAD A WEDDG ITALY LAST SUMMER WH A LN IENDS OM MIAMI BUT WANTED TO VENTURE OUT ON MY OWN PARIS AND LONDON BUT NEVER BEEN BEFORE. THANKFULLY I FOUND THIS GUI WHO BEME MORE LIKE A IEND. IT WAS VERY RMATIVE, HISTORIL, AND THOROUGH BUT ALSO FUN, FUNNY, AND JT WHAT I NEED. BEG A GAY MAN ALONE PARIS ISN'T EASY SO WAS ALSO GREAT TO KNOW WHAT SCEN ARE FOR WHO AND WHERE THE GAY DISTRICT. I FELY REMEND THE GUYS AND NOW I N'T WA TO GO BACK!READ MOREWRTEN MAY 15, 2019THIS REVIEW IS THE SUBJECTIVE OPN OF A TRIPADVISOR MEMBER AND NOT OF TRIPADVISOR LLC. TRIPADVISOR PERFORMS CHECKS ON REVIEWS AS PART OF OUR DTRY-LEADG TST & SAFETY STANDARDS. READ OUR TRANSPARENCY REPORT TO LEARN MORE.KHAVBALTIMORE, MD182 NTRIBUTNS3INFORMATIVE TOUR MAY 2019FUN TRO TO THE MARAIS! I HAD A GREAT WALKG TOUR, AND THE GUI WAS VERY PERSONABLE (WH PRIVATE TOURS THERE’S ALWAYS A RISK OF AWKWARD SILENC BUT EVERYTHG WAS GREAT!). LOVED LEARNG TIDBS ABOUT ARCHECTURE AND FIGURG OUT THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN DIFFERENT STYL. WOULD DO AGA WH IENDS READ MOREWRTEN MAY 8, 2019THIS REVIEW IS THE SUBJECTIVE OPN OF A TRIPADVISOR MEMBER AND NOT OF TRIPADVISOR LLC. TRIPADVISOR PERFORMS CHECKS ON REVIEWS AS PART OF OUR DTRY-LEADG TST & SAFETY STANDARDS. READ OUR TRANSPARENCY REPORT TO LEARN MORE.VATN441525839121 NTRIBUTN2GREAT TRO TO PARIS AND MARAISSEP 2018 • COUPLMY HBAND AND I SCHLED A WALKG TOUR OF THE MARAIS WH BRYAN THE AFTERNOON WE ARRIVED ( PART TO KEEP AWAKE WHILE ALG WH JET LAG). IT WAS AN AMAZG AFTERNOON. HE IS VERY LAID BACK AND FUN BUT ALSO PROFSNAL AND VERY KNOWLEDGEABLE ABOUT FRENCH HISTORY. HE LEFT WH AN UNRSTANDG AND APPRECIATN FOR THE ARCHECTURE AND HISTORY OF THE MARAIS THAT WE WOULD HAVE MISSED OUT ON OTHERWISE. ALONG THE WAY HE POTED OUT BARS, F, AND RTRANTS OF TERT THAT TURNED OUT TO BE VERY HELPFUL LATER ON OUR STAY. WHEN WE EMAILED LATER TO ASK ABOUT SOME MORE REMENDATNS, HE RPOND IMMEDIATELY. HE EVEN GAVE ME THE NAME OF HIS FRENCH LOGNE WHICH I TOTALLY PIED AND BOUGHT BEFORE I LEFT. THANKS BRYAN!READ MOREWRTEN OCTOBER 30, 2018THIS REVIEW IS THE SUBJECTIVE OPN OF A TRIPADVISOR MEMBER AND NOT OF TRIPADVISOR LLC. TRIPADVISOR PERFORMS CHECKS ON REVIEWS AS PART OF OUR DTRY-LEADG TST & SAFETY STANDARDS. READ OUR TRANSPARENCY REPORT TO LEARN MORE.DANIEL GVERMONT54 NTRIBUTNS1ABSOLUTE MT, IF YOUR VISG PARIS AND YOUR GAY!!!!!!!SEP 2018 • COUPLWE SET UP A TOUR, JT TO GET ORIENTED TO THE MARIAS, SEE A FEW GAY BARS, POPULAR RTRANTS, HERE ABOUT GAY CULTURE PARIS. WE GOT WAY MORE. IMAGE SPENDG A FEW HOURS WH A GAY HISTORY PROFSOR, WHO IS SMART AS N BE, IENDLY, DOWN TO AND JT FUN TO HANG OUT WH. BRIAN, OUR GUI HAD SPELL BOUND AS HE WEAVED THROUGH PARIS HISTORY, CULTURE, WH A GOLD THREAD OF GAY THROUGH OUT. I MEAN SERLY, WHERE N YOU LEARN ABOUT GAY ROYALTY, BEHEADGS, BARON QUEENS, AND THE BT OF TODAYS GAY BARS, ALL ONE CY. THEN, AS IF HIS SPIR WAS STILL WH THE NEXT DAY, HIS ADVISE ALLOWED TO MANAGE A VIS TO VERSAILL THE SMART WAY, AND NOT BE SUBJECT TO A HIO TWO E LONG LE OF JAPANE SCHOOL GIRLS. WE AR STILL MENTG ON THGS BRIAN SPOKE ME ARE THE FOLKS YOU NEED PARIS!!!!READ MOREWRTEN SEPTEMBER 27, 2018THIS REVIEW IS THE SUBJECTIVE OPN OF A TRIPADVISOR MEMBER AND NOT OF TRIPADVISOR LLC. TRIPADVISOR PERFORMS CHECKS ON REVIEWS AS PART OF OUR DTRY-LEADG TST & SAFETY STANDARDS. READ OUR TRANSPARENCY REPORT TO LEARN MORE.12…SHOWG RULTS 1-10 OF 43DANIEL GVERMONT54 NTRIBUTNSWE ARRANGED AND PAID FOR A TOUR DURG OUR HONEYMOON PARIS, BUT NOW WE NNOT GET A RPONSE OM THE PANY. WE ARE LOOKG TO NFIRM AND FD OUT WHERE WE WILL MEET THE GUI. DO ANYONE KNOW HOW TO REACH THE FOLKS?TARAMCMILLEN1245SEATTLE, WA1 NTRIBUTNBRYAN EMAILED ME A UPLE DAYS BEFOREHAND. ALSO, HE WAS VERY QUICK TO RPOND TO FURTHER QUTNS.READ ALL REPLIVIEW ALLTHE GAY LOLS (PARIS) - ALL YOU NEED TO KNOW BEFORE YOU GO (WH PHOTOS)

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Nohels, you should always rema vigilant, particularly as homophobic attacks have risen recent years. The gay parti are hosted once a month at Club Hssman, and they promise a great Saturday night out. For gay travelers Paris, the cy offers some unique stor where you n happily shop till you drop.

As mentned, Paris is a very gay-iendly cy, so you n fortably choose om most hotels that su your travel preferenc. As Paris’s primary gay neighborhood, Le Marais is one of the bt areas for gay travelers to stay.

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Hotel Jul & Jim is a popular gay-iendly hotel Le Marais, offerg ntemporary rooms and a downstairs bar that attracts both guts and lols. “I am a gay man, and here I am harpg on Hler and Marie Antoette all the time when there are so many stori of people like me the past, pecially Paris, that we n tap to. After gettg his PhD om the Sorbonne, and spendg years mullg on Parisian history, 2015 Bryan cid he wanted to share somethg a ltle different wh Parisian tourists, and The Gay Lols was born.

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” The pany, which Bryan ns wh the help of a Canadian sign stunt named Jonathan, now offers tours of Paris’s gayborhood, the Marais, as well as other areas like Montmartre wh their own rich LGBTQ history. All tours are private, set at €150 for sgl, or €240 for upl for 2 hours (though you’ll ually get to hang out for a drk at a lol gay bar afterwards).

He mentns that prev gay tourism pani he’d e across were too “flashy, ” and he felt that a lol approach would work better.

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S., or olr folks travelg wh iends and relativ, but, as Bryan mentns, “I’ve had everyone om lbians om South Ai to a gay man om Pakistan.

” The sgl tours lend themselv well to visors g om plac where they may not have accs to a thrivg gay muny, whether be Sdi Arabia or Middle Ameri.

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“For a lot of people, pecially g om plac like Texas or Oklahoma, they’re like, ‘We don’t have gay bars, what do you do when you go to a gay bar?

After rabow crosswalks were faced wh homophobic graffi 2018, Bryan mentns, “It did lnch this whole nversatn about natnal inty, and why are we labelg thgs wh rabow lors, bee that’s puttg your gay inty before your French inty. “France is so centralized Paris, and so the gay muny France is also very centralized Paris… You n’t go to Lyon and fd rabow flags.

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“So many of those rabow flags have gone away and have given themselv over to high-end boutiqu… There’s not gonna be a new gayborhood Paris anytime soon. 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.

Vcent and the Grenad, where gay sex is still homelsns to ongog physil and verbal abe, the gay muny the small natn of some 100, 000 people says is unr nstant threat. While rarely voked, the rights group and a lol activist said the laws help legimize hostily and abe agast gay people. Vcent who are livg abroad filed a se to challenge lol laws crimalizg gay sex that activists say should be stck down.

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”Human Rights Watch terviewed more than 20 members of the island’s LGBTQ muny who shared their stori but were not intified to protect them, notg that lol police are often openly discrimatory toward gay people who seek help. Several reported that their fai are homophobic and physilly and verbally abed them, g them to bee homels and promptg some to nsir suici.

Many also stggle to fd jobs amid a high unemployment rate and said they face discrimatn, cludg a 19-year-old gay man who said he has rorted to beggg: “Sometim I am so hungry.

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”Six English-speakg natns the Caribbean still crimalize gay sex, cludg Domi, Jamai, Guyana, Grenada and St. ”González wh Human Rights Watch noted that 2019, the ernment held a workshop for public employe on the importance of rpectg gay rights, a rare move for a nservative Caribbean natn. Vcent, anal sex is punishable by up to 10 years prison, while “gross cency” wh another person of the same sex is punishable by up to five years, acrdg to lonial-era laws that are mon the socially nservative Caribbean rarely voked, the rights group and a lol activist said the laws help legimize hostily and abe agast gay people.

Several reported that their fai are homophobic and physilly and verbally abed them, g them to bee homels and promptg some to nsir also stggle to fd jobs amid a high unemployment rate and said they face discrimatn, cludg a 19-year-old gay man who said he has rorted to beggg: “Sometim I am so hungry. 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.

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