Gay Paris
The Earful Tower: Paris
Oliver Gee
4.8 • 749 Ratings
🗓️ 4 February 2019
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
This week’s guest is Bryan Pirolli, an author, marathon runner, and a tour guide around Gay Paris.
He explains a little about the city's gay history, its present and its future. He also shares his thoughts on just how gay friendly the city is.
And of course, we have a good old chat about Paris and tour guiding in general.
And he ends with a few tips for good gay bars to check out.
Oh yes, and here's the pic of Princess Palatine that Bryan mentioned.
Find out more about Bryan’s new book about travel journalism here, and book a tour of Gay Paris here.
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| 0:00.0 | It's Monday in Paris and that means one thing and one thing only, another episode of the Earful Tower, brought to you by me, Oliver G, an Australian, in this wild world of Paris trying to figure it all out. |
| 0:12.1 | This episode is brought to you by French Today audiobooks. We'll be hearing a little bit from Camille, the woman behind it all. |
| 0:19.4 | At the end of the episode, she'll be telling us about a mistake that is made by even the advanced students. But today's guest |
| 0:26.3 | is Brian Paroli, who is the mastermind behind the gay locals, tours about gay Paris. And when |
| 0:34.4 | I say gay Paris, I mean gay Paris, not gay Paris, which we talk a little |
| 0:38.6 | bit about in the episode. But we also talk about France, gay culture, how Paris's sort of very |
| 0:45.7 | openly gay scene over the past couple hundred years has drawn people from around the world. |
| 0:50.1 | We talk about it all, including a few places to go if you are gay and you're thinking about |
| 0:54.1 | coming to Paris and you want a bit of a night out. |
| 0:56.6 | You'll hear it all here. |
| 0:57.8 | This is the Eiffel Tower with Brian Piroli talking about gay Paris. |
| 1:01.8 | Enjoy the episode. |
| 1:08.6 | Brian Piroli. Welcome to the studio. |
| 1:10.8 | Hello. How are you doing? Doing wonderfully. You look like you just cy to the studio. Hello. |
| 1:11.2 | How are you doing? |
| 1:11.8 | Doing wonderfully. |
| 1:12.6 | You look like you just cycled across town. |
| 1:14.9 | I did. |
| 1:15.5 | I did as I do. |
| 1:16.5 | What a guess. |
| 1:17.3 | Are you a cyclist in the city? |
| 1:18.3 | I am a cyclist. |
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