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Contents:

• 10 GREAT FRENCH GAY FILMS
• THE 10 BEST PARIS GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS PARIS
• FRANCE BANS GAY ‘NVERSN THERAPY’ WH NEW LAW
• #METOOGAY: FRENCH MALE GAY VICTIMS BREAK TABOO ON SEXUAL ABE
• PLAG GAYS à FRANCE
• NAMIBIAN MPS BACK ANTI-GAY LAW SPE SUPREME COURT LG
• WORLD CUP 2022, GAY ATHLET AND LGBTQ CLN

10 GREAT FRENCH GAY FILMS

La Cage x Foll (1978)Tradnally France has been seen as one of the most liberal untri the world, and boasts an enviable rerd on gay rights, spe the ocsnal rantgs om Brigte Bardot. But has this homoiendly attu translated to s cema?

THE 10 BEST PARIS GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS PARIS

We’ve kept the list to films that are easily available to watch the UK, but honourable mentn should go to The Ostrich Has Two Eggs (1957), a dated farce that at least has a sympathetic gay son, albe one who never appears on screen, and L Amiés particulièr (1964), set a boys’ boardg school. Un chant d’amour (1950)French wrer Jean Ge is one of the key figur of gay culture, whose novels (cludg Querelle of Brt), plays and says have been champned by gay and straight rears alike.

There’s nothg explicly gay here, but any film that shov Jacqu Perr  a sailor su, squeez Gee Chakiris to tight whe troers and rat self wh lavish, lurid sets fely has a queer eye. La Cage x Foll (1978)“Une édie très gay” smirked the tagle for this box-office smash. Blier’s films often foc on two aquate men ung agast women (L Valss, the Osr-wng Get Out Your Handkerchiefs), and unrton of homosexualy have always lgered the air.

Here ’s ma explic, albe an ocsnally homophobic ntext – the scen where the hband is forced to don women’s clothg are particularly unfortable.

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The arrival of the betiful and charismatic Gill threatens both his thory and his mand on his sexualy, as an unrequed homoerotic attractn tak hold. Anatomy of Hell (2004)Gay men hate and fear women, even more than straight men.

When a woman (Amira Casar) slash her wrists a gay bar, she challeng her homosexual rcuer (Italian porn star Roc Sifedi) to spend four nights wh her to “watch me where I’m unwatchable”.

Fet the cliché of the gay bt iend, this guy n’t stand women. It’s easy to snigger at the portento dialogue (“The elasticy of a boy’s an don’t lie about the tightns of the lower tt”) and the assumptn of misogyny may rile male viewers, gay or straight.

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Only the fal third is explicly gay, but homoerotic tensns simmer throughout. Most reviews foc on the showy performance of the equently naked Nilas Cazalé as the rebel whout much of a e the first chapter, but the emotnal heart li the fal third, as Morel explor the plexi of the vulnerable gay youth who mt choose between aternal loyalty and a chance at romantic happs.

L Invisibl (2012)Sébastien Lifshz is bt known for his gay featur (Prque rien, Gog South), but his ft work to date is this revealg documentary which gay men and women their 60s and 70s talk about their liv and lov.

Stirrg archive footage om the 1960s shows pro-gay monstratns – tertgly, many of the straight onlookers support the liberal march. The wty, charismatic and urageo people paved the way for the eedom gay men and women enjoy today.

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Their disarmg ankns creat an valuable oral history, while their tal of opprsn show how far gay rights have progrsed over the s.

Ntled the gay-hotspot of Le Marais, the hotel (named after the Tfft film) is set a former 18th century prec metal factory. • Gay-only gutho: Le Moul Tet (External lk) Touloe and La Villa Ltoral (External lk) Montepellier (the former 30 m om downtown, the send a rort-type lodgg near the beach of Southern France) are ial if you're lookg for a gay-only stay an timate settg. In a survey om March 2021 nducted France, 12 percent of rpondg young femal and eight percent of rpondg young mal stated that they had already a homosexual relatnship and enjoyed .

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It may be stated that younger generatns are more open about sexualy and genr, and generally 86 percent of French cizens thk homosexualy is a way of life that should be accepted by society. Acrdg to France Televisns, 30 percent of young French women aged between 18 and 34 years stated that they never had a homosexual relatnship but will be open to if the opportuny arose. There were also 72 percent to mentng that they do not wish to have a gay relatnship, pared to 56 percent of women surveyed.

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Gay marriage is legal France sce 2013 and the number of same-sex weddgs reached a rerd number of 10, 552 unns 2014. In 2015, more than 60 percent of French aged 18 to 24 years already me across homophobic statements onle.

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Tripadvisor performs checks on vised this bar on our honeymoon bee is the olst gay bar Paris. Fun night a gay bar paris! Fally, LGBTQ+ travelers will want to note the gay/nu beach and around Nice, like St Lrent d’Eze, Co Beach and Castel Plage.

The small towns and villag around the Alps mounta range bee ski rort hotspots, wh annual gay ski weeks takg place like the European Gay Ski Week. LGBTQ+ travelers will want to check out the gay and nu beach here, such as Sat-Lrent-d'Eze Plage and Co Beach.