LGBT culture in ParisW
LGBT culture in Paris

Paris, the capital of France, has an active LGBT community. In the 1990s, 46% of the country's gay men lived in the city. As of 2004, Paris had 140 LGBT bars, clubs, hotels, restaurants, shops, and other commercial businesses. Florence Tamagne, author of "Paris: 'Resting on its Laurels'?", wrote that there is a "Gaité parisienne"; she added that Paris "competes with Berlin for the title of LGBT capital of Europe, and ranks only second behind New York for the title of LGBT capital of the world." It has France's only gayborhoods that are officially organized.

Allée Claude-Cahun-Marcel-MooreW
Allée Claude-Cahun-Marcel-Moore

Allée Claude-Cahun-Marcel-Moore is a street in Montparnasse in the 6th arrondissement of Paris, France.

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Chéries-Chéris

Chéries-Chéris is an annual international LGBT film festival held in Paris in October or November. Original titled "Festival of Gays and Lesbians of Paris", it was founded in 1994 by Yann Beauvais, Philip Brooks, Élisabeth Lebovici, and Nathalie Magnan. The festival is supported by the Ministry of Culture and the Direction régionale des affaires culturelles of Île-de-France.

Paris Foot GayW
Paris Foot Gay

Paris Foot Gay was an amateur, local league football club from Paris, the capital of France. The team was made up of around 30% homosexual players. It was founded in 2003 and dissolved in 2015.

Paris PrideW
Paris Pride

The Paris Pride or Marche des Fiertés LGBT, is a parade and festival held at the end of June each year in Paris, France to celebrate the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people and their allies. The parade starts each year at Tour Montparnasse and ends at Place de la Bastille. After the parade the party continues in the gaydistrict Le Marais. Paris was the host of Europride in 1997.

TêtuW
Têtu

Têtu is the main gay magazine published in France. It was subtitled in French le magazine des gays et lesbiennes until 2007, and reaffirmed itself as a men's magazine since then. As of December, 2012, its certified circulation was of 41,961 copies monthly. The publication stopped in 2015. The magazine was reborn and issued its next issue on 28 February 2017.

The MaraisW
The Marais

The Marais is a historic district in Paris, France. Long the aristocratic district of Paris, it hosts many outstanding buildings of historic and architectural importance. It spreads across parts of the 3rd and 4th arrondissements in Paris. Once shabby, the district has been rehabilitated and now sports trendy shopping and restaurants in streets such as Rue des Francs-Bourgeois and Rue des Rosiers.