Paris--La City of (Rainbow) Lights

La ville d'amour ... pour les homosexuels ....Paris.

Parisian gays are really lucky..One can see gay couples in the streets, lovingly holding each other with no problems. Must be all the amour in the air, oui? With over 375 gay and lesbian venues, there is too much to see and do in one's lifetime! Most of them are concentrated in the Les Marais district of Paris, where you can see same sex couples hand-in hand shopping in the Sainte Croix de la Bretonnerie, or visiting the splendid Places des Vosges. If you're new, start by visiting Open Cafe at the corner of rue Des Archives and rue Saint Croix de la Bretonnier (for the boys). Women, stick to rue Du Roi de Secile and rue Des Ecouffes if you want to be in the lesbian bar zone with the only female-dedicated sex shop in town!

Let's not mention Paris is the first world capital to elect an openly gay mayor in 2001 (who was re-elected in 2008! woo-hoo! ). Le Marais is the upscale and historic place for transgendered and bisexuals too, even Mozart and Victor Hugo stayed here in the 20th Centuries (making sweet music, Mozart?)

700,000 people attend Paris' Gay Pride Parades annually, and you can expect to stay out at gay nightclubs until about 5:30 am. Sure, Netherlands has gay marriages approved....but the food is delicious in Paris! (Frog legs, anyone?)