L'Impact bar gay naturiste à Paris

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• SHAWN ROHL, PH.D., CONDUCTS ENOMIC IMPACT STUDY OF PARIS 2018 GAY GAM

SHAWN ROHL, PH.D., CONDUCTS ENOMIC IMPACT STUDY OF PARIS 2018 GAY GAM

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L'IMPACT APARTMENT4GAY, Rue Grea, Paris, France. 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. 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. Gay nightlife and drag balls flourished durg the Jazz Age of the 1920s.

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that by the 1970s, all police fil on gay and lbian crim were stroyed, and certa laws agast LGBT nduct and people were repealed.

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.

Recent Channel 4 seri It’s A S (2021) explored a fictnalised world of gay men London between 1981 and 1991 – a siar perd to Paris Is Burng.

Filmed largely Harlem, New York Cy, the film illumat the vibrant scene of drag balls – a world of predomantly gay men and transgenr women, but clive of those across the LGBTQI+ muny who stggled to fd acceptance the wir world. Paris Is Burng has gone on to w a wi range of awards over the years, cludg Grand Jury Prize Documentary at Sundance Film Ftival 1991 and Outstandg Film (Documentary) at the Gay and Lbian Alliance Agast Defamatn (GLAAD) Media Awards 1992.

Paris Is Burng shows gays om unrreprented groups as part of a queer muny not fed by proximy to straights. Angry that the bright, creative people, makg a space for themselv a hostile homophobic world, were so much danger”.

That said, my feelgs were more plex – as a whe cis gay I know there are layers to the reprentatn of muny that aren’t me to claim.

Jennie Livgston beg a queer director too, really cemented the way that the documentary was not makg ‘other’, makg spectacle out of queerns and gay culture. Angry that the bright, creative people, makg a space for themselv a hostile homophobic world, were so much danger.

Joe Drakeley, 21, intifi as a cisgenr gay man. Not jt as a gay man, but someone who is not straight actg and is very proud to be queer.