Tips for Gay and Lbian Travelers Paris | Frommer's

Contents:

• PARIS' BT KNOWN GAY BOOKSHOP FORCED TO MOVE BEE OF SOARG RENTS
• RENT RIS FORCE REVERED LGBT BOOKSHOP OUT OF PARIS'S GAY DISTRICT
• GAY PARIS BOOKS
• 21 BOOKS EVERY GAY MAN NEEDS TO READ RIGHT NOW
• TIPS FOR GAY AND LBIAN TRAVELERS PARIS
• GAY BOOKSTOR AROUND THE WORLD
• GAY NEW YORK CY

PARIS' BT KNOWN GAY BOOKSHOP FORCED TO MOVE BEE OF SOARG RENTS

France and Paris' bt known gay bookshop, L Mots à La Bouche, is beg forced to move lotn and out of the cy’s historic gay district, the Marais, bee risg rents. “The gay Marais is dyg, ” she said.

“The Paris tourist board still promot the Marais as “an thentic yet trendy ltle village” but s gay scene, which began the 1980s when the area was still workg class, shabby and cheap, is slowly beg erod. ”Several historic gay bars have closed recent years as fashn labels om Laste to Chanel move Marais’ Jewish area, suated around Rue s Rosiers, is not immune, wh mercial rents doublg between 2012 and 2018.

In the wdow of France’s bt-known gay bookshop, above the display of Lucian Frd art books, opera sger Maria Callas’s memoirs and a history of the Pri movement, a poster warns giant red letters: “Cultural herage danger.

RENT RIS FORCE REVERED LGBT BOOKSHOP OUT OF PARIS'S GAY DISTRICT

”L Mots à La Bouche, a 40-year-old Paris stutn, is the top LGBT bookshop France and nsired one of the bt the world – a fol pot of Paris’s historic gay neighbourhood the Marais district. But as property speculatn central Paris reach dizzyg heights – is timated that at certa tim of year there are more Airbnb rentals than rints the Marais – the bookshop is beg forced out by risg parture is a blow to Paris’s gay muny as activists warn that central Paris is stroyg s cultural inty by allowg luxury fashn shops aimed at rich tourists to force out lol bs, cludg gay the lol baret star, Yvette Leglaire, said: “The gay Marais is dyg. ” The Paris tourist board still promot the Marais as “an thentic yet trendy ltle village” but s gay scene, which began the 1980s when the area was still workg class, shabby and cheap, is slowly beg erod.

Several historic gay bars have closed recent years as fashn labels om Laste to Chanel move Marais’ Jewish area, suated around Rue s Rosiers, is not immune, wh mercial rents doublg between 2012 and 2018.

GAY PARIS BOOKS

Sébastien Grisez, manager at L Mots à La Bouche, says: “Paris cy hall promot the gay history of the Marais and has pated the crossroads here rabow lours, but no longer havg our bookshop here seems absurd. But like many historic gay bars that closed unr prsure om risg rents, the shop has been given until March to fd a new lotn elsewhere Paris. There are mours that a Doc Marten shoe shop will take s says: “Ten years ago, there were far more gay bars here, now only a few are left.

It’s te that gay soclogy is changg – people are more spread out, there is perhaps ls need to meet bars when you n meet on apps. ”At the Open Bar, a historic gay venue set up by rights activist Sébastien Fossa, the manager, says: “The neighbourhood is creasgly losg s soul. ”Fayçal Khiate, who ns nearby gay bar Cox, says: “When a bookshop leav, ’s daily neighbourhood life that will lose out.

21 BOOKS EVERY GAY MAN NEEDS TO READ RIGHT NOW

The owners strive to feature books that will te and rm the public on issu such as women’s rights and homosexualy. The book selectn clus works about rape, homophobia, adoptn, relign, genr, relatnships, and even portatn. This book is so important bee was one of the first to really show the plited ways which gay men had to manage their inty, self and place a world that didn’t want them do exist.

While not one of Vidal’s “bt” works (to me, he’s an sayist first and a novelist send), The Pillar and the Cy is a mt-read bee of s place the queer non as one of the first regnized and reviewed gay novels. The fact that A Separate Peace ntually gets tght high school English urs baffl the bt possible way, as Knowl’ bt-known work is one of the most homoerotic bildungsromans ever wrten.

The one character many gay men fd themselve nnectg wh is bisexual Pl Denton, who is love wh Sean Bateman, the dg aler of the story. Their relatnship is pretty ambiguo the whole story and Ellis leav open to one’s own terpretatn, but I thk that is what has so many gay rears lovg Pl. Many gay men nnect wh Charlie wh his sense of isolatn the story and other experienc that you will have to read to fd out.

TIPS FOR GAY AND LBIAN TRAVELERS PARIS

There is a gay character who acts as one of Charlie’s clost iends So, that aids the ‘gayns’ of the book. The novel tails a mother’s stggle to al wh her gay son’s suici, as she wasn’t supportive of his g out while he was alive, and how the post-mortem lsons changed her.

Osr Wil is one of the qutsential gay thors history. Vany and bety are two thgs that many gay men stggle wh their entire liv due to livg a gay culture which how good one looks superses most other aspects regards to social pal and succs.

This book attracts gay rears all over the world bee Dorian, who is not gay, is alg wh an issue that eclips many gay liv.

GAY BOOKSTOR AROUND THE WORLD

Extra Cred: Check out Brishead Revised, Evelyn Wgh’s most celebrated novel and an early work the queer non, and the llected works of Patricia Highsmh, all of which were really, really gay. Y, I know this is a lbian book, but too often the gay muny self-segregat and the lack of knowledge about other segments of the muny is an ongog problem. Burroughs over the years has bee one of the most wily read ntemporary gay wrers, and this book is evince to why that is.

The Celluloid Closet: Homosexualy the Movi by Vo Rso (Zach). Angels Ameri: A Gay Fantasia on Natnal Them by Tony Khner (Zach). If you have a list of “Books for Gay Men” then a book that shows the stggl the LGBTQ muny faced the midst of the AIDS epimic is need, and this play is even more need.

GAY NEW YORK CY

If you’ve read this book, you’re probably like, “Wa, there aren’t any gay characters?