Is Tel Aviv Really the Gayt Cy on the Pla? | The Jewish Prs - | | 10 Adar II 5776 – Saturday, March 19, 2016 |

Contents:

• WHERE IS THE GAY CAPAL OF THE WORLD? TEN FABULO CONTENRS… ?
• AND THE GAYT CY EUROPE IS... (DISVER OUR TOP 10 WNERS)
• TOP 10 GAY CAPALS FOR TRAVELAUGT 25, 2021 BY EDOR--CHIEFDPE THE FACT THAT THERE ARE STILL POLIL REGIM AND EVEN SO-LLED SOCIAL GROUPS AND RELIG ANIZATNS THAT FAIL TO PREHEND THE TE MEANG OF EQUALY REGARDLS OF WHO PEOPLE CHOOSE TO LOVE, HOW THEY CHOOSE TO LOOK PUBLIC, AND WHO THEY CHOOSE TO BE, MORE AND MORE DIVIDUALS – AND UPL – ARE NOW G OUT TO THE OPEN PUBLICLY ANNOUNCG TO THE WHOLE WORLD THEIR TE INTI. AND WHILE THE RT OF THE WORLD IS SLOW G TO TERMS WH THE RIGHTS OF THE LGBT MUNY, THERE ARE THOSE THAT HAVE OPENLY EMBRACED THEM AND PROVID A SAFE HAVEN FOR THOSE WHO RELISH EQUAL RIGHTS REGARDLS OF SEXUAL PREFERENC OR ORIENTATN. INED, THE UNTRI AND CI HAVE PROVID REFUGE FOR THOSE WHO HAVE FACED RIDICULE AND NMNATN THEIR OWN UNTRI AND CI.WHILE ON THE WHOLE, THE WORLD IS A MUCH MORE AMENABLE TO GAY VISORS THAN ED TO BE, THERE ARE CERTA STATNS WHERE GAYS FEEL MORE FORTABLE AND WELE THAN OTHERS. THIS ARTICLE FOC ON TEN TOP STATNS THAT AREN’T JT GAY IENDLY; THEY ACTIVELY ENURAGE GAY VISORS AND GO ALL OUT TO MAKE SURE THEY HAVE THE BT TIME EVER.WHAT IS THE GAY CAPAL OF THE WORLD? SAN FRANCIS IS UALLY THE THE PLACE MOST PEOPLE WOULD SAY IS THE GAY PAL IF ASKED, BUT IF PENDS HOW YOU FE PAL. WE REARCHED THE HIGHT GAY MUNI PER PA, BUT EVEN THE DATA FOUND IS OUTDATED AND NOT PERFECT. THE REARCH N BE BASED ON PER PA, BUT PEOPLE ARE NOT ALWAYS OPEN AND HONT WHEN SURVEYED.REARCH HAS ALSO BEEN RRIED OUT BY HOW ‘GAY IENDLY’ CI ARE WHICH IS MUCH MORE MEASURABLE.WHAT IS THE GAY CAPAL OF THE USA?THE HUMAN RIGHTS CAMPA (HRC) NS A YEARLY MUNICIPAL EQUALIY INXCI ARE RANKED BY:NON-DISCRIMATN LAWS MUNICIPAL EMPLOYMENT POLICI CLIVENS OF CY SERVIC, LAW ENFORCEMENT (CLUDG HATE CRIM REPORTG) MUNICIPAL LEARSHIP ON MATTERS OF EQUALYTHOUGH THE MA NTENRS LIKE SAN FRANCIS, NEW YORK ARE HIGHT RANKED, THERE ARE MANY OTHER CI THAT DO VERY WELL UNR THE ABOVE CRERIA. WELL DONE PHEONIX, ORLANDO AND ATLANTA!!WHAT IS THE GAYT COUNTRY EUROPE?ACRDG TO REARCH, GERMANY HAS THE LARGT LGBT MUNY EUROPE, 7.4% OF GERMANS SAID THEY INTIFIED WH LGBT.ACRDG TO RABOW EUROPE THE BT UNTRY TERMS OF GAY IENDLY LEGISLATN MALTA!BT GAY CI THE WORLD (ACRDG TO )
• 25 GAYT CI THE WORLD
• THE GAY LOLS: THE PARISIAN LGBTQ TOURISM COMPANY OFFERG A DIFFERENT SI OF FRANCE
• WHAT IS THE GAY CAPAL OF THE WORLD? THIS LIST WILL TELL YOU!
• 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 EGYPT BALI THAILAND TURKEY MOROC ECUADOR SPA CROATIA JAPAN INDIA MEXI ICELAND GREECE 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. EDINBURGH AND THE SCOTTISH HIGHLANDS BY TRAIN TRAVERSE STLAND’S MOST SCENIC LANDSP, OM WT AST TO EAST, TRAVELLG BY RAIL 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?
• GAY FRANCE
• IS TEL AVIV REALLY THE GAYT CY ON THE PLA?

WHERE IS THE GAY CAPAL OF THE WORLD? TEN FABULO CONTENRS… ?

Over the past few s, hundreds of bs have opened up that are specifilly targeted toward the gay muny, so no matter what you want to do on your trip, you’ll feel right at home.

AND THE GAYT CY EUROPE IS... (DISVER OUR TOP 10 WNERS)

Although ’s not specifilly gay-foced, you’ll also want to stroll through the Red Light District, a historilly sex-posive area of town wh plenty of sex shops and fetish attractns. There’s also tons of gay shoppg London, like Gay’s The World, a gay and lbian bookstore, or Prowler, a liftyle store where you n also fd tickets to London’s hottt gay events.

The Queer Berl tour is an excellent troductn to the cy, and is a great way to ci which gay-iendly bars, rtrants, and shops you’ll want to check out for the rt of the tour.

Be sure to check out the credible food and style Barcelona as well – the cy is one of the bt plac Europe to enjoy all-out luxury, and also don’t hurt Barcelona hosts some of the biggt gay ftivals on Earth! San Francis has been the gay center of the Uned Stat for s, as was the first cy to elect an openly gay official Harvey Milk, and was the first US cy to legalize gay marriage as well.

TOP 10 GAY CAPALS FOR TRAVELAUGT 25, 2021 BY EDOR--CHIEFDPE THE FACT THAT THERE ARE STILL POLIL REGIM AND EVEN SO-LLED SOCIAL GROUPS AND RELIG ANIZATNS THAT FAIL TO PREHEND THE TE MEANG OF EQUALY REGARDLS OF WHO PEOPLE CHOOSE TO LOVE, HOW THEY CHOOSE TO LOOK PUBLIC, AND WHO THEY CHOOSE TO BE, MORE AND MORE DIVIDUALS – AND UPL – ARE NOW G OUT TO THE OPEN PUBLICLY ANNOUNCG TO THE WHOLE WORLD THEIR TE INTI. AND WHILE THE RT OF THE WORLD IS SLOW G TO TERMS WH THE RIGHTS OF THE LGBT MUNY, THERE ARE THOSE THAT HAVE OPENLY EMBRACED THEM AND PROVID A SAFE HAVEN FOR THOSE WHO RELISH EQUAL RIGHTS REGARDLS OF SEXUAL PREFERENC OR ORIENTATN. INED, THE UNTRI AND CI HAVE PROVID REFUGE FOR THOSE WHO HAVE FACED RIDICULE AND NMNATN THEIR OWN UNTRI AND CI.WHILE ON THE WHOLE, THE WORLD IS A MUCH MORE AMENABLE TO GAY VISORS THAN ED TO BE, THERE ARE CERTA STATNS WHERE GAYS FEEL MORE FORTABLE AND WELE THAN OTHERS. THIS ARTICLE FOC ON TEN TOP STATNS THAT AREN’T JT GAY IENDLY; THEY ACTIVELY ENURAGE GAY VISORS AND GO ALL OUT TO MAKE SURE THEY HAVE THE BT TIME EVER.WHAT IS THE GAY CAPAL OF THE WORLD? SAN FRANCIS IS UALLY THE THE PLACE MOST PEOPLE WOULD SAY IS THE GAY PAL IF ASKED, BUT IF PENDS HOW YOU FE PAL. WE REARCHED THE HIGHT GAY MUNI PER PA, BUT EVEN THE DATA FOUND IS OUTDATED AND NOT PERFECT. THE REARCH N BE BASED ON PER PA, BUT PEOPLE ARE NOT ALWAYS OPEN AND HONT WHEN SURVEYED.REARCH HAS ALSO BEEN RRIED OUT BY HOW ‘GAY IENDLY’ CI ARE WHICH IS MUCH MORE MEASURABLE.WHAT IS THE GAY CAPAL OF THE USA?THE HUMAN RIGHTS CAMPA (HRC) NS A YEARLY MUNICIPAL EQUALIY INXCI ARE RANKED BY:NON-DISCRIMATN LAWS MUNICIPAL EMPLOYMENT POLICI CLIVENS OF CY SERVIC, LAW ENFORCEMENT (CLUDG HATE CRIM REPORTG) MUNICIPAL LEARSHIP ON MATTERS OF EQUALYTHOUGH THE MA NTENRS LIKE SAN FRANCIS, NEW YORK ARE HIGHT RANKED, THERE ARE MANY OTHER CI THAT DO VERY WELL UNR THE ABOVE CRERIA. WELL DONE PHEONIX, ORLANDO AND ATLANTA!!WHAT IS THE GAYT COUNTRY EUROPE?ACRDG TO REARCH, GERMANY HAS THE LARGT LGBT MUNY EUROPE, 7.4% OF GERMANS SAID THEY INTIFIED WH LGBT.ACRDG TO RABOW EUROPE THE BT UNTRY TERMS OF GAY IENDLY LEGISLATN MALTA!BT GAY CI THE WORLD (ACRDG TO )

Of urse, you’ll have to spend some time the vibrant night markets and betiful f that fe Taipei’s food scene, but at night, there’s tons of gay clubs where you n dance your heart out. On an afternoon Schöneberg, you’ll jo proud gay upl walkg the same historic streets where LGBTQ artists and activists once began the fight for gay rights, as early as the 1890s fact.

You’ll fd a number of monuments around the cy memoratg the many LGBTQ victims of WWII, wh the Schwul Mm documentg the art, culture and history of Berl’s homosexual muny, which was long centred , Nollendorfplatz is still the place to be if you’d like to see the cy’s bt fetish clubs and leather bars, wh September brgg wh the Folsom Europe BDSM and subculture ftival.

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As well as s progrsive lols and large gay muny, the cy self is a playground for gay travellers, most notably the Chue neighbourhood where there’s always some kd of event happeng.

The third natn to legalize gay marriage back 2005, Spa’s pal has sce bee a mol for other untri, wh s equaly acts allowg for same-sex adoptn, marriage and legal safeguards agast discrimatn. Drawn through wh waterways and nnected by hundreds of photogenic bridg, Amsterdam is the cy of the cyclist, allowg for scenic ris along the Prsengracht nal and the Amstel River which both bee awash wh para boats durg the annual gay nal pri. At all other tim, you n fd Amsterdam’s gay scene centred on Reguliersdwarsstraat, particularly at the cy’s olst gay bar, Cafe t’ Mandje, a popular late-night meetg pot wh kschy dér datg back to the 1920s.

While explorg the cy, be sure to look for the Homomonument, a se promoted as a livg monument to homosexuals opprsed and persecuted around the world, also learng more of the cy’s LGBT history at the Pk Pot rmatn sk close by. This area surroundg Old Compton Street central London remas the go-to place for 21st century gays, nstantly transformatn wh queer-oriented theatr, fés, sex shops and bookstor on every street.

THE GAY LOLS: THE PARISIAN LGBTQ TOURISM COMPANY OFFERG A DIFFERENT SI OF FRANCE

As well as drkg outlets, mil theatre remas alive and well on London’s Wt End, wh gay mils and LGBTQ productns on the regular smaller venu and clubs such as Above The Stag. Copenhagen, DenmarkWh Denmark beg one of the first European natns to legalize same-sex marriage 2012 (and same-sex unns back 1989), ’s pal of Copenhagen certaly has the crentials to be crowned gay pal of Europe. Though smaller events like World Aids Day and the EuroGam are celebrated throughout the year, the pnacle event for the gay muny mt be Copenhagen Pri, which actually happens twice a year both June and well as your ual dance clubs, Copenhagen go one better wh a selectn of sophistited gay spots near Cy Hall, while the alternative scene meets nearer Central Statn or Vterbro, the cy’s old Red Light District.

Historilly speakg, Paris has always been a ltle queer, known rmally as the ‘Vice of Sodom’ the Middle Ag and havg legalised homosexualy as early as the French Revolutn back 1791.

Paris | Photo: Charleen V 25hours Hotel Paris | Photo: The Gay PassportBis hostg the UK’s largt pri para, Manchter also hosts Queer Contact arts ftival, Drag Ft UK and Sparkle Ftival7.

WHAT IS THE GAY CAPAL OF THE WORLD? THIS LIST WILL TELL YOU!

Bis hostg the UK’s largt pri para, Manchter also hosts Queer Contact arts ftival, Drag Ft UK and Sparkle Ftival, wh more drag events and themed nights happeng nightly the Gay Village on Canal Street the cy’s bt gay bars, clubs and LGBTQ venu. Mgle good gay pany on Sat-Jaqu, fdg most of the nightlife actn on Marché Au Charbon, particularly the month of May when the narrow streets and sloped lan behd Grand Place fill wh revellers for an entire week of pri celebratns, culmatg on Saturday for Pri Day Bssels. Loted jt 60 mut by tra om London Cy, Brighton is the go-to weekend spot for gay Londoners lookg to relax bi the sea before gettg lost among like-md gents along the bbled lan of St.

Hostg 250, 000 people each year for s Pri ftival, Brighton remas a meltg-pot for gay culture year round, a trend started the 19th century when men om across the untry me to meet up wh soldiers statned here.

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 EGYPT BALI THAILAND TURKEY MOROC ECUADOR SPA CROATIA JAPAN INDIA MEXI ICELAND GREECE 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. EDINBURGH AND THE SCOTTISH HIGHLANDS BY TRAIN TRAVERSE STLAND’S MOST SCENIC LANDSP, OM WT AST TO EAST, TRAVELLG BY RAIL 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?

Vis durg Febary to attend a number of LGBTQ History Month events held across the cy, otherwise tryg for Trans Pri and Ey Wi Open Ftival, or for regular performanc by the Gay Men’s Chos or edy nights at Bent Double.

GAY FRANCE

Each superblock offers a new theme, though the gay muny n ually be found around Eixample the LGBT district, meetg up at the cy’s bt gay bars, rtrants and a balny view or an al tapas spot for a lazy afternoon on the square, or otherwise make mov to the cy’s nearby beach statn of Sg, jt 30 mut away by tra.

Strip off gay pany on any of the three gay beach (clothg-optnal on Platja l’Home Mort and Playa las Balms) or enjoy some other thgs to do Sg, such as cktails and live mic Bassa Rodona town. Though Sg certaly has pri, ’s Barcelona cy centre wh the biggt store of events, cludg the ma pri para June, Bear Pri March, Circu Ftival Augt and the Internatnal Gay and Lbian Film Ftival October. Ined, the untri and ci have provid refuge for those who have faced ridicule and nmnatn their own untri and on the whole, the world is a much more amenable to gay visors than ed to be, there are certa statns where gays feel more fortable and wele than others.

IS TEL AVIV REALLY THE GAYT CY ON THE PLA?

This article foc on ten top statns that aren’t jt gay iendly; they actively enurage gay visors and go all out to make sure they have the bt time is the Gay Capal of the world? Bt Gay Ci the World (acrdg to )Contents San Francis Sydney BrightonAmsterdamBerl Mexi, Puerto Vallarta Chelsea and Greenwich Village (NYC) R Prague BangkokCopenhagen: The Birthplace of Gay RightsToronto: The Bean of LGBTQ Rights San FrancisFor those who have been before, will e as no surprise to see San Francis at the top of the list. Kls Wowere, the openly gay mayor, outed himself wh the immortal words “I’m gay and that’s a good thg”, and beftg the centralised nature of the cy, there is no specific gay ghetto, and there are tablished scen throughout Berl.

Copenhagen: The Birthplace of Gay RightsLong before the equaly qutn me to the nscns of the global muny the early 90s, this cy well-known for s lorful history, s LEGO herage, and s Nordic cuise, pneered champng the rights of lbians, gays, bisexuals, and transgenrs when , as a natn, was the first to openly regnize same-sex relatnships or partnerships 1989. Fast forward more than a later 2012 and openly gay upl were now able to get wed the Church, although they were only the 8th Europe and 11th the world to do so at the time.