Daily Xtra Travel - Your Comprehensive Gui to Gay Travel Montpellier

Contents:

• MONTPELLIER, UNE VILLE FéTICHE POUR L GAYS
• FIRST GAY MARRIAGE CELEBRATED FRANCE
• GAY AREA MONTPELLIER? - MONTPELLIER FOM
• GAY MONTPELLIER (HéRLT, LANGUEDOC-ROSILLON)
• THE BEST MONTPELLIER GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS MONTPELLIER
• GAY MONTPELLIER
• EXPLORE GAY ROOMS & RENTALS MONTPELLIER
• MONTPELLIER GAY MAP

MONTPELLIER, UNE VILLE FéTICHE POUR L GAYS

Montpellier t puis longtemps nsidérée me une ville « gay iendly », un endro où il fa bon vivre pour la munté LGBT (lbien, gay, bi et trans). Mais puis l'adoptn du mariage homosexuel et la célébratn la première unn dans la pale régnale, la ville a accédé à un nouve statut. « Le mariage en a fa une ville symbole », souligne le présint la Lbian and gay pri (LGP) Montpellier Languedoc, premier à avoir nvolé avec son pagnon Bno.

Montpellier ava déjà gagné s galons ville « la tolérance et du rpect » lorsque l'ancien maire Ge Frêche ava acrdé en 1979 un lol Groupe libératn homosexuelle, à une époque où cette sexualé éta toujours pénalement répréhensible. Une polique poursuivie par Hélène Mandroux, qui, avant se battre en favr du mariage pour to et lancer « l'appel Montpellier » ava déjà mis en œuvre la célébratn du Pacs en mairie ou le changement s fich renseignement à l'éle pour prendre en pte l fal homoparental.

FIRST GAY MARRIAGE CELEBRATED FRANCE

C't d'aillrs un s éléments qui a nvacu la LGP déler la date la Gay pri, qui a fêté son vgtième anniversaire l 12 juillet. Montpellier is now the most gay-iendly cy France, acrdg to the rults of a survey nducted this summer by Têtu magaze among 6, 000 of s rears and published this morng s December issue.

To tablish this rankg of the most gay-iendly ci France, among the 23 ma ci, TÊTU ed many creria, cludg the more or ls iendly attu of the habants or the municipaly, the prence of gay bs, the dynamism of lol LGBT associatns or the number of homophobic attacks, physil or verbal.

Lyon, first the prev survey, managed to stay the top three, thanks particular to s many gay tablishments and the nsy and diversy of s work of associatns. Nice is the top 5, no doubt partly as a rult of the work rried out for several years now by the municipaly and the tourist office to improve the image of a cy classified as right-wg and whose image is not always the is probably partly the rult of the work rried out for several years now by the municipaly and the tourist office to improve the image of a cy classified as right-wg and whose image uld appear both old and "ld or homophobic", to e the terms ed the TÊTU survey.

GAY AREA MONTPELLIER? - MONTPELLIER FOM

If Paris appears to be the most gay-iendly cy France, ahead of Montpellier and Lyon, is only 8th place when judged by s own habants! This is due to the homophobic acts of which 34% of rponnts say they have been victims.

Angers clos this top 10 thanks to a discreet but real and rather well accepted gay life. For the rt of the rankg, Borx seems to enjoy a real dynamism terms of gay plac.

In Nancy, the problem is the qualy of the existg gay venu which do not satisfy the lol muny, and the equent homophobic behavr. Clermont-Ferrand stands out as the cy least prone to homophobic acts, even if the gay muny and venu sometim leave somethg to be sired. The same fate befell Caen and Grenoble, two ci where homophobic acts are the least numero.

GAY MONTPELLIER (HéRLT, LANGUEDOC-ROSILLON)

” Our advice: Gay visors should experience is one of the most centralized untri the world and Paris is the pal of all thgs French. It is te, at least terms of gay life, that the rt of France tends to follow Paris’s lead. But by no means should you as a gay visor France lim your stay to Paris, which would be like gog to the USA and only seeg New York.

France wh a pal “F” exists outsi the Paris cy lims, and is a far cry om the gay cultural sert that Parisians would have you believe. In Paris, the Marais neighborhood close to the Cy Hall (Hotel Ville) has blossomed to the cy’s disputable gay center. There you’ll fd untls gay bars and rtrants, gay-oriented shops and hotels, and throngs of gay people om all over the world.

Croix la Bretonnerie, stoppg along the way to wdow-shop or have a drk, nstut a gay Paris rual and a “mt” for any gay visor.

THE BEST MONTPELLIER GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS MONTPELLIER

After your stroll, you n have a dner one of the area’s all-gay rtrants before headg to a nightclub, or to one of the more libido venu (keepg md that sna-gog tends to be an afternoon activy). Gay people live all over the cy, and you’ll fd some kd of gay-oriented bs virtually every neighborhood of the pal.

Paris is also rife wh gay associatns, rangg om bridge clubs to polil groups to fetishist anizatns.

GAY MONTPELLIER

In recent years, gay-owned or gay-oriented tablishments have taken to intifyg themselv wh displays of rabow flags.

EXPLORE GAY ROOMS & RENTALS MONTPELLIER

In 2001 Paris elected s first openly gay mayor, Bertrand Delanoe, affirmg the cy’s tolerance towards .

Ined, gay life Paris is extribly tertwed wh domant (straight) culture, spe of the Marais’ reputatn as a “ghetto”. Straight Parisians often equent gay-intified bars and clubs, reputed as the trendit, most happeng plac town, and social gathergs (dner parti are a high sacred re of life France) are ually mixed.

It is safe to say, overall, that the French genuely like gay people, so you should feel wele everywhere. One advantage to gay venu Paris is that you’ll seldom, if ever, be the only outsir. All of the plac — and plenty more — have thrivg gay scen, where as a foreigner, you’ll be much more of a novelty than Paris.

MONTPELLIER GAY MAP

If you’re planng to vis the Mederranean ast, Nice and Montpellier are the major gay ci. Other tertg French gay centers are found the southwt (Touloe, Biarrz), the Alps (Grenoble, Annecy), Brtany (Nant) and Provence (Avignon).