Queer Paris: What has become of the gay quarter of Paris?
The Earful Tower: Paris
Oliver Gee
4.8 • 749 Ratings
🗓️ 23 October 2023
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
Q is for Queer. In this episode, I'll give you an insight into Gay Paris. And by gay I mean LGBTQIA+.
Where is the gay quarter... or perhaps a better question.... what's happened to the gay quarter now that gentrifcation has hit the Marais?
Also: What's a gay bookshop? What do they sell and to whom?
Featured in this episode: Bryan Pirolli from The Gay Locals, Boris from Le Ju' cafe, and Nicolas Wanstok from Les Mots à la Bouche bookshop.
- Find more from The Gay Locals here.
- Find the bookshop Les Mots à la Bouche here: Address - 37 Rue Saint-Ambroise, 75011 Paris
- Find the bar with the rainbow umbrellas, Le Ju' cafe, here: 16 Rue des Archives, 75004 Paris
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The music in this episode is from Pres Maxson, find his Substack here.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everybody, it's Oliver G here with the Earful Tower podcast. And Q, let's just get straight into it, |
| 0:06.7 | Q is for queer Paris. It should come as absolutely no surprise to anyone that this is a gay-friendly |
| 0:13.9 | podcast. After all, this is gay Paris. It's a gay friendly city. And I even though I've done it before I figured this was a |
| 0:24.5 | really good chance to delve into gay Paris, queer Paris, LGBTQIA plus Paris and who better to do it |
| 0:35.3 | with than a handful of people who live in that very world. |
| 0:39.5 | So what you're about to hear is a big mix. |
| 0:42.0 | It's a mix of interviews with experts. |
| 0:44.5 | It's a mix of me walking down the streets, me going into gay cafes, gay bookshops, |
| 0:50.5 | talking to the people inside, and trying to understand a little bit about the changing face of |
| 0:58.0 | queer Paris, particularly how it seems to be on the move from the Marais. |
| 1:04.7 | Now, an episode like this wouldn't be an episode like this without music from Press Maxon. |
| 1:12.3 | And he's hit the ball out of the park on this one. |
| 1:15.8 | Not only is it a great song that I love by a band that I love, |
| 1:20.5 | but the band has a letter cue in it too and a connection to queer. |
| 1:24.0 | We've got Christine and the Queens, |
| 1:27.0 | and we'll hear more for Prez at the end of the episode |
| 1:28.9 | but I know he dusted off the old synthesizer for this one |
| 1:32.4 | take it away Press and welcome to the Queerful Tower |
| 1:37.4 | My name's Oliver G |
| 1:38.9 | and let's get into this A, B, season, Q episode |
| 1:43.5 | I'm going to get into this A, B, season, Q episode. |
| 2:08.9 | So this episode. So this episode was going to start with Brian Paroli from the gay locals who was last on the show about five years ago. |
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