Jo the lns of people on the streets of Paris as they celebrate, advote and fend the rights of the LGBTQ muny. From gay-iendly rtrants to queer art, learn more about the ftival here.
Contents:
- PARIS GAY PRI: AN INSIR’S GUI TO THE EVENT
- LA MARCHE S FIERTéS 2023 (EX GAY PRI): HERE'S THE ROUTE OF THE LGBTQI+ PARA PARIS
- PARIS GAY PRI
- HOW THE LGBT COMMUNY HAS SHAPED PARIS’S BOHEMIAN REPUTATN GAY PRI LE MARAIS | © BELLEVUELOVE / WIKICOMMONS JA CUTTLE 12 FEBARY 2019 COPY LK FACEBOOK EMAIL TWTER PTERT FROM THE EXCLIVE LBIAN CLUBS OF THE 1890S TO THE FLOURISHG DRAG BALLS DURG THE BELLE ÉPOQUE, PARIS HAS LONG BEEN A CENTRE OF LGBT CULTURAL LIFE. IN THIS ARTICLE, WE TAKE A LOOK AT SOME OF THE KEY EVENTS THAT HAVE SHAPED THE FRENCH PAL’S BOHEMIAN REPUTATN. VIEW ALL TRIPS THE HISTORY OF PARIS’S LGBT SCENE DURG THE ANCIEN RéGIME (OM THE LATE MIDDLE AG UNTIL 1789), HOMOSEXUALY WAS A PAL CRIME FRANCE, OFTEN RULTG THE ATH PENALTY. HOWEVER, THE FRENCH REVOLUTN CRIMALISED HOMOSEXUALY 1791, MAKG FRANCE ONE OF THE FIRST UNTRI TO SUPPORT THE LGBT MUNY EUROPE. IN PARISON, THE ATH PENALTY WAS NOT LIFTED ENGLAND AND WAL UNTIL 1861. TAKE A SP TO FD YOUR PERFECT SMALL-GROUP TRIP STATN PASSPORTS READY? YOUR NEXT STATN IS... VIEW TRIP SP SOUTH AI JAPAN CROATIA TURKEY BALI THAILAND GREECE MEXI EGYPT SPA ECUADOR ICELAND INDIA MOROC THE RELAXED LAWS ALLOWED HOMOSEXUAL ACTIVI TO NTUE PROVID THEY REMA PRIVATE AND DISCREET, WHICH HELPED QUEER CULTUR TO FLOURISH ACROSS FRANCE THE LATE 18TH AND 19TH CENTURI. ONE OF THE MOST FAMO EXAMPL OF HISTORIL QUEER CULTURE FRANCE OM THE 1890S, WHEN THERE WAS AN EXCLIVE LBIAN ASSOCIATN LLED L RIS (THE MERRY WOMEN). THE CLUB WAS HOSTED MONTHLY BY A TR OF PARISIAN ACTRS A PRIVATE NDLEL MANSN, WH WE FLOWG ABUNDANCE. THE WOMEN ENJOYED SUMPTUO DNERS OM DK UNTIL DAWN BEFORE SPENDG THE NIGHT TOGETHER, AND MEN WERE ALWAYS EXCLUD. CARIBBEAN COLOMBIA DISVER COLOMBIA’S CARIBBEAN AST, OM CARTAGENA TO PALOMO VIA JUNGL, RIVERS AND ISLANDS. VIEW TRIP MAMOISELLE BEMONT OR THE CHEVALIER D’EO | © BRISH CARTOON PRTS COLLECTN / WIKICOMMONS THE BELLE ÉPOQUE SAW QUEER CULTURE FLOURISH THE ERA MONLY REFERRED TO AS LA BELLE ÉPOQUE (1871 TO 1914) IS ONE OF THE MOST GLOR PERDS TO HAVE FEATURED FRENCH HISTORY. NOT ONLY DID SEE THE EPIC NSTCTN OF THE EIFFEL TOWER AND THE BASILI OF SACRé-CœUR, BUT ALSO THE PARIS MéTRO AND THE PARIS OPéRA. BUT THE BELLE ÉPOQUE ALSO ENDOWED PARIS WH A REPUTATN FOR BEG BOTH THE BOHEMIAN AND EROTIC PAL OF EUROPE, AND FOR SPIRG QUEER CULTURE PARIS TO FLOURISH. DURG THIS ERA, A WHOLE WORK OF UNRGROUND LGBT VENU EMERGED. THE CLUD SECRET SALONS BURSTG WH STIMULATG NVERSATN, ECLECTIC BARS, FéS AND BATHHO, PARTICULARLY THE MONTMARTRE AND L HALL DISTRICTS. THE GARNS BY THE CARROEL DU LOUVRE, THE CHAMPS ELYSé, AND THE BOURSE WERE ALSO POPULAR MEETG PLAC. BEE A CULTURE TRIPPER! SIGN UP TO OUR NEWSLETTER TO SAVE UP TO 40% ON OUR UNIQUE TRIPS. SIGN UP SEE PRIVACY POLICY. GAY NIGHTLIFE AND DRAG BALLS FLOURISHED DURG THE JAZZ AGE OF THE 1920S. LE MONOCLE WAS A POPULAR LBIAN CLUB AND WELL-KNOWN FOR WOMEN WEARG TUXEDOS, AS WERE CLAIR LUNE, CHEZ MA COE AND LA PETE CHMIERE. FAMOLY, IRISH PLAYWRIGHT AND THOR OSR WIL SPENT HIS LAST YEARS PARIS TOO, HAVG FLED BRA 1897 AFTER BEG RELEASED OM PRISON. HE HAD BEEN RCERATED FOR TWO YEARS ON CHARG OF SODOMY WH HIS DOOMED LOVE AFFAIR WH LORD ALED DOUGLAS. NATALIE BARNEY, JA FLANNER AND DJUNA BARN | © WIKICOMMONS THE TURBULENT EVENTS OF MAY 1968 MAY 1968 WAS A VERY VOLATILE PERD FRANCE’S HISTORY THAT ALMOST BROUGHT THE UNTRY TO A PLETE STANDSTILL. IT SAW A SERI OF STUNT PROTTS AGAST PALISM AND NSUMERISM, WH MANY BUILDGS BEG OCCUPIED PARIS. THE WISPREAD UPRISGS AND FIGHTG FOR BELIEFS ALSO SPIRED ACTIVISM THE REALMS OF WOMEN’S RIGHTS, LGBT RIGHTS AND ENVIRONMENTALISM. ONE OF THE MAY 1968 SLOGANS WAS: IL T TERD D’TERDIRE (‘IT IS FORBIDN TO FORBID’), PLACG VALUE ON EEDOM TO BE WHOEVER YOU WANT TO BE. THE EVENTS OF MAY 1968 HELPED SPIRE THE CREATN OF THE HOMOSEXUAL REVOLUTNARY ACTN FRONT (LE FRONT HOMOSEXUEL D’ACTN RéVOLUTNNAIRE), WHICH UNED 4,000 SUPPORTERS BY 1971. THE SUCCS OF THIS GROUP CIS WH THE FACT THAT BY THE 1970S, ALL POLICE FIL ON GAY AND LBIAN CRIM WERE STROYED, AND CERTA LAWS AGAST LGBT NDUCT AND PEOPLE WERE REPEALED. FOR THE FIRST TIME THE CY’S HISTORY, PARISIANS ENJOYED AN CREASED SENSE OF EEDOM. SUATNIST GRAFTI, MENTON, FRANCE, 2006 | © ESPENT / WIKICOMMONS LGBT CULTURE MORN PARIS TODAY, THE LGBT SCENE PARIS IS PARTICULARLY ACTIVE THE NEIGHBOURHOODS OF LE MARAIS AND MONTMARTRE, THOUGH PIGALLE IS ALSO A PRIME MEETG PLACE. THE NEON-L DISTRICT OF PIGALLE IS FAMOLY HOME TO THE BOHEMIAN CHEZ MOUNE, WHICH IS WILY CHERISHED AS THE ‘LONGT-NNG LBIAN BAR AND BARET PARIS’. THE VENUE HAS BEEN OPEN SCE 1937. THE PARIS GAY PRI PARA IS AN IMPORTANT EVENT NOWADAYS TOO, MEMORATG THE HISTORIC TRIALS OF THE LGBT MUNY ACROSS THE GLOBE WHILE CELEBRATG DIVERSY, EQUALY AND EEDOM. PARIS’S PRI PARA STARTS NEAR THE MONTPARNASSE-BIENVENUE METRO STATN THE 15TH ARRONDISSEMENT AND WEAV S WAY THROUGH THE CY TO THE PLACE LA BASTILLE. PRI IS ONE OF THE CY’S MOST FTIVE, IENDLY AND LOURFUL EVENTS AND IS CELEBRATED BY ALL, REGARDLS OF SEXUAL ORIENTATN. AFTER THE PARA, A STREET PARTY TAK PLACE ON PARIS’S ROADS. GAY PRI LE MARAIS | © BELLEVUELOVE / WIKICOMMONS VOLNIC ICELAND EPIC TRIP MEET OUR LOL INSIR HANNA HOW LONG HAVE YOU BEEN A GUIDE? 2 YEARS. WHAT DO YOU LOVE ABOUT YOUR JOB? IT'S THE PERSONAL NTACT, THE PERSONAL EXPERIENC. I LOVE MEETG PEOPLE OM ALL OVER THE WORLD... I REALLY LIKE GETTG TO KNOW EVERYONE AND FEELG LIKE I'M TRAVELG WH A GROUP OF IENDS. WHAT DESTINATION IS ON YOUR TRAVEL BUCKET-LIST? I HAVE SO MANY PLAC ON MY LIST, BUT I WOULD REALLY LOBE TO GO TO AI. I NSIR MYSELF AN “ADVENTURE GIRL” AND AI FEELS LIKE THE ULTIMATE ADVENTURE! EVERY CULTURE TRIP SMALL-GROUP ADVENTURE IS LED BY A LOL INSIR JT LIKE HANNA. SEE OUR CULTURE TRIPS KEEN TO EXPLORE THE WORLD?
- HOW TO ENJOY PARIS GAY PRI (MARCHE S FIERTéS LGBT+) 2023?
- GAY PRI
- PRI FORTNIGHT AND GAY PRI PARIS
- PARIS GAY PRI 2020: PARA AND PARTI
- PARIS GAY PRI 2024 + MARCHE S FIERTéS
- THE VOICE OF CHICAGO'S GAY, LESBIAN, BI, TRANS AND QUEER COMMUNITY SINCE 1985
PARIS GAY PRI: AN INSIR’S GUI TO THE EVENT
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Paris Gay Pri: An Insir’s Gui to the Event. Marche s Fiertés or Paris Gay Pri is a procsn the heart of Paris, where thoands gather on the streets to celebrate LGBTQ’s rights to live the way they wish.
The Marche s Fiertés lbienn, gays, bis, trans, queers, tersex (LGBTQI+), formerly known as Gay Pri, announc s return to Paris this summer, wh the 2023 edn schled for Saturday June 24.
LA MARCHE S FIERTéS 2023 (EX GAY PRI): HERE'S THE ROUTE OF THE LGBTQI+ PARA PARIS
The Marche s Fiertés lbienn, gays, bis, trans, queers, tersex (LGBTQI+), formerly known as Gay Pri, announc s return to Paris this summer, wh the 2023 edn schled for Saturday June 24. Fd out more about the para route! * after gay pride paris *
Every year se the ftive renzvo of the former Gay Pri, now lled the Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans, Queer, Intersex (LGBTQI+) Pri March, a natnal event that mands equal rights for heterosexual and LGBTQI+ people. Gay, lbian, bi, trans, or genrqueer travelers will have no trouble fdg thgs to do Paris, though they should by no means feel rtricted to "gay-themed" spots and events.
LGBT Pri Para (Paris Gay Pri). Paris' openly gay former mayor Bertrand Delanoe has been known past years to make an appearance, along wh other policians.
Read related feature: Where to Party After Gay Pri (Bt Bars and Clubs).
PARIS GAY PRI
Between 2,000 and 3,000 people turned out Saturday Paris for a polilly engaged Gay Pri march, a week after the officially schled event was ncelled bee of ronavis rtrictns. * after gay pride paris *
PopGays Dance Nights. Courty of PopGays.
PopGays is an associatn that aniz semi-monthly rock, pop, and die dance nights that are queer-themed and open to everyone. From the Popgays webse: "We like girls who like girls, and girls who like boys, and boys who like boys, and boys who like girls.
HOW THE LGBT COMMUNY HAS SHAPED PARIS’S BOHEMIAN REPUTATN GAY PRI LE MARAIS | © BELLEVUELOVE / WIKICOMMONS JA CUTTLE 12 FEBARY 2019 COPY LK FACEBOOK EMAIL TWTER PTERT FROM THE EXCLIVE LBIAN CLUBS OF THE 1890S TO THE FLOURISHG DRAG BALLS DURG THE BELLE ÉPOQUE, PARIS HAS LONG BEEN A CENTRE OF LGBT CULTURAL LIFE. IN THIS ARTICLE, WE TAKE A LOOK AT SOME OF THE KEY EVENTS THAT HAVE SHAPED THE FRENCH PAL’S BOHEMIAN REPUTATN. VIEW ALL TRIPS THE HISTORY OF PARIS’S LGBT SCENE DURG THE ANCIEN RéGIME (OM THE LATE MIDDLE AG UNTIL 1789), HOMOSEXUALY WAS A PAL CRIME FRANCE, OFTEN RULTG THE ATH PENALTY. HOWEVER, THE FRENCH REVOLUTN CRIMALISED HOMOSEXUALY 1791, MAKG FRANCE ONE OF THE FIRST UNTRI TO SUPPORT THE LGBT MUNY EUROPE. IN PARISON, THE ATH PENALTY WAS NOT LIFTED ENGLAND AND WAL UNTIL 1861. TAKE A SP TO FD YOUR PERFECT SMALL-GROUP TRIP STATN PASSPORTS READY? YOUR NEXT STATN IS... VIEW TRIP SP SOUTH AI JAPAN CROATIA TURKEY BALI THAILAND GREECE MEXI EGYPT SPA ECUADOR ICELAND INDIA MOROC THE RELAXED LAWS ALLOWED HOMOSEXUAL ACTIVI TO NTUE PROVID THEY REMA PRIVATE AND DISCREET, WHICH HELPED QUEER CULTUR TO FLOURISH ACROSS FRANCE THE LATE 18TH AND 19TH CENTURI. ONE OF THE MOST FAMO EXAMPL OF HISTORIL QUEER CULTURE FRANCE OM THE 1890S, WHEN THERE WAS AN EXCLIVE LBIAN ASSOCIATN LLED L RIS (THE MERRY WOMEN). THE CLUB WAS HOSTED MONTHLY BY A TR OF PARISIAN ACTRS A PRIVATE NDLEL MANSN, WH WE FLOWG ABUNDANCE. THE WOMEN ENJOYED SUMPTUO DNERS OM DK UNTIL DAWN BEFORE SPENDG THE NIGHT TOGETHER, AND MEN WERE ALWAYS EXCLUD. CARIBBEAN COLOMBIA DISVER COLOMBIA’S CARIBBEAN AST, OM CARTAGENA TO PALOMO VIA JUNGL, RIVERS AND ISLANDS. VIEW TRIP MAMOISELLE BEMONT OR THE CHEVALIER D’EO | © BRISH CARTOON PRTS COLLECTN / WIKICOMMONS THE BELLE ÉPOQUE SAW QUEER CULTURE FLOURISH THE ERA MONLY REFERRED TO AS LA BELLE ÉPOQUE (1871 TO 1914) IS ONE OF THE MOST GLOR PERDS TO HAVE FEATURED FRENCH HISTORY. NOT ONLY DID SEE THE EPIC NSTCTN OF THE EIFFEL TOWER AND THE BASILI OF SACRé-CœUR, BUT ALSO THE PARIS MéTRO AND THE PARIS OPéRA. BUT THE BELLE ÉPOQUE ALSO ENDOWED PARIS WH A REPUTATN FOR BEG BOTH THE BOHEMIAN AND EROTIC PAL OF EUROPE, AND FOR SPIRG QUEER CULTURE PARIS TO FLOURISH. DURG THIS ERA, A WHOLE WORK OF UNRGROUND LGBT VENU EMERGED. THE CLUD SECRET SALONS BURSTG WH STIMULATG NVERSATN, ECLECTIC BARS, FéS AND BATHHO, PARTICULARLY THE MONTMARTRE AND L HALL DISTRICTS. THE GARNS BY THE CARROEL DU LOUVRE, THE CHAMPS ELYSé, AND THE BOURSE WERE ALSO POPULAR MEETG PLAC. BEE A CULTURE TRIPPER! SIGN UP TO OUR NEWSLETTER TO SAVE UP TO 40% ON OUR UNIQUE TRIPS. SIGN UP SEE PRIVACY POLICY. GAY NIGHTLIFE AND DRAG BALLS FLOURISHED DURG THE JAZZ AGE OF THE 1920S. LE MONOCLE WAS A POPULAR LBIAN CLUB AND WELL-KNOWN FOR WOMEN WEARG TUXEDOS, AS WERE CLAIR LUNE, CHEZ MA COE AND LA PETE CHMIERE. FAMOLY, IRISH PLAYWRIGHT AND THOR OSR WIL SPENT HIS LAST YEARS PARIS TOO, HAVG FLED BRA 1897 AFTER BEG RELEASED OM PRISON. HE HAD BEEN RCERATED FOR TWO YEARS ON CHARG OF SODOMY WH HIS DOOMED LOVE AFFAIR WH LORD ALED DOUGLAS. NATALIE BARNEY, JA FLANNER AND DJUNA BARN | © WIKICOMMONS THE TURBULENT EVENTS OF MAY 1968 MAY 1968 WAS A VERY VOLATILE PERD FRANCE’S HISTORY THAT ALMOST BROUGHT THE UNTRY TO A PLETE STANDSTILL. IT SAW A SERI OF STUNT PROTTS AGAST PALISM AND NSUMERISM, WH MANY BUILDGS BEG OCCUPIED PARIS. THE WISPREAD UPRISGS AND FIGHTG FOR BELIEFS ALSO SPIRED ACTIVISM THE REALMS OF WOMEN’S RIGHTS, LGBT RIGHTS AND ENVIRONMENTALISM. ONE OF THE MAY 1968 SLOGANS WAS: IL T TERD D’TERDIRE (‘IT IS FORBIDN TO FORBID’), PLACG VALUE ON EEDOM TO BE WHOEVER YOU WANT TO BE. THE EVENTS OF MAY 1968 HELPED SPIRE THE CREATN OF THE HOMOSEXUAL REVOLUTNARY ACTN FRONT (LE FRONT HOMOSEXUEL D’ACTN RéVOLUTNNAIRE), WHICH UNED 4,000 SUPPORTERS BY 1971. THE SUCCS OF THIS GROUP CIS WH THE FACT THAT BY THE 1970S, ALL POLICE FIL ON GAY AND LBIAN CRIM WERE STROYED, AND CERTA LAWS AGAST LGBT NDUCT AND PEOPLE WERE REPEALED. FOR THE FIRST TIME THE CY’S HISTORY, PARISIANS ENJOYED AN CREASED SENSE OF EEDOM. SUATNIST GRAFTI, MENTON, FRANCE, 2006 | © ESPENT / WIKICOMMONS LGBT CULTURE MORN PARIS TODAY, THE LGBT SCENE PARIS IS PARTICULARLY ACTIVE THE NEIGHBOURHOODS OF LE MARAIS AND MONTMARTRE, THOUGH PIGALLE IS ALSO A PRIME MEETG PLACE. THE NEON-L DISTRICT OF PIGALLE IS FAMOLY HOME TO THE BOHEMIAN CHEZ MOUNE, WHICH IS WILY CHERISHED AS THE ‘LONGT-NNG LBIAN BAR AND BARET PARIS’. THE VENUE HAS BEEN OPEN SCE 1937. THE PARIS GAY PRI PARA IS AN IMPORTANT EVENT NOWADAYS TOO, MEMORATG THE HISTORIC TRIALS OF THE LGBT MUNY ACROSS THE GLOBE WHILE CELEBRATG DIVERSY, EQUALY AND EEDOM. PARIS’S PRI PARA STARTS NEAR THE MONTPARNASSE-BIENVENUE METRO STATN THE 15TH ARRONDISSEMENT AND WEAV S WAY THROUGH THE CY TO THE PLACE LA BASTILLE. PRI IS ONE OF THE CY’S MOST FTIVE, IENDLY AND LOURFUL EVENTS AND IS CELEBRATED BY ALL, REGARDLS OF SEXUAL ORIENTATN. AFTER THE PARA, A STREET PARTY TAK PLACE ON PARIS’S ROADS. GAY PRI LE MARAIS | © BELLEVUELOVE / WIKICOMMONS VOLNIC ICELAND EPIC TRIP MEET OUR LOL INSIR HANNA HOW LONG HAVE YOU BEEN A GUIDE? 2 YEARS. WHAT DO YOU LOVE ABOUT YOUR JOB? IT'S THE PERSONAL NTACT, THE PERSONAL EXPERIENC. I LOVE MEETG PEOPLE OM ALL OVER THE WORLD... I REALLY LIKE GETTG TO KNOW EVERYONE AND FEELG LIKE I'M TRAVELG WH A GROUP OF IENDS. WHAT DESTINATION IS ON YOUR TRAVEL BUCKET-LIST? I HAVE SO MANY PLAC ON MY LIST, BUT I WOULD REALLY LOBE TO GO TO AI. I NSIR MYSELF AN “ADVENTURE GIRL” AND AI FEELS LIKE THE ULTIMATE ADVENTURE! EVERY CULTURE TRIP SMALL-GROUP ADVENTURE IS LED BY A LOL INSIR JT LIKE HANNA. SEE OUR CULTURE TRIPS KEEN TO EXPLORE THE WORLD?
Each year, Paris' Gay Pri event (LGBT Marche s Fiertés) sparks huge celebratns. What to expect om the march/para & parti 2023? * after gay pride paris *
Paris Gay and Lbian Film Ftival.
HOW TO ENJOY PARIS GAY PRI (MARCHE S FIERTéS LGBT+) 2023?
Paris' gay Pri para has rumed to the joy of participants after the panmic meant no such g together last year. * after gay pride paris *
Generally held December at the Fom d'Imag cema at L Hall the cy center, the Paris Gay and Lbian Film Ftival is a lively week-long event where screengs of noteworthy GLBT-themed and directed films attract large crowds.
Gay and Lbian Theater Ftival.
GAY PRI
Each year June, the Paris Pri Fortnight and Gay Pri para (‘Marche s Fiertés’ French) take place Paris. * after gay pride paris *
The brand-new Gay and Lbian Theater Ftival promis to brg more exposure to GLBTQ artists and issu Paris and offers a diverse palette of talent. It remas a major hub for gay culture today and ntu to draw LGBTQ travelers om around the globe.
They, and many other queer people, achieved proment posns artistic and tellectual circl while beg openly gay.
PRI FORTNIGHT AND GAY PRI PARIS
Fd plete on Paris Gay Pri 2020, cludg where to experience the annual cy para and tails on where to party well to the night." emprop="scriptn * after gay pride paris *
The 1920s saw the first gay clubs and drag balls. Paris beme a hotbed for gay liberatn groups, siar to those formg the US and Great Bra. Organizatns wh nam like Homosexual Front for Revolutnary Actn and Red Dyk phed for LGBTQ regnn and an end to discrimatn France.
Twenty years later, the cy elected s first openly gay mayor whose tenure was fed by ntent protts both for and agast the marriage equaly movement. Trendy shops, high-end eateri, and rabow flags galore blanket this gayborhood.
Arguably the most famo gay bar Paris, RAIDD is qutsential Marais.
PARIS GAY PRI 2020: PARA AND PARTI
Paris Gay Pri + Marche s Fiertés 2024 - annual gay Pri and LGBT celebratns + Para held Paris, June 2024 * after gay pride paris *
RAIDD is ually the first stop for gay tourists.
Most visors to Paris only associate L Hall wh shoppg, but ’s also one of the cy’s olst gay districts.
PARIS GAY PRI 2024 + MARCHE S FIERTéS
It’s not on the radar of many gay tourists, so ’s likely you may only enunter real Parisians at some of the bars this area.
This gay-iendly hnt Le Marais draws a rambunct after-work crowd. MecrediX and VendrediX are two weekly after-work gay parti that take place every Wednday and Friday eveng, rpectively.
THE VOICE OF CHICAGO'S GAY, LESBIAN, BI, TRANS AND QUEER COMMUNITY SINCE 1985
Two years ago crosswalks Le Marais were repated multilor to celebrate gay pri.