Guided tour: Pigalle, or Paris's inverted underside

5 Place Blanche 75009 Paris

Guided tour of Pigalle's bars and gay cabarets (1890-1950). Around the Boulevard de Clichy, in the Belle Époque and then between the wars, owners of shady bars and popular cabaret artists create a nocturnal center for sexual and gender minorities. Pigalle becomes the matrix of homosexual, lesbian and queer subcultures. Traversing between these places, now vanished or still standing, this guided tour unfolds like a gallery of portraits. This guided tour is part of the to-be-continued "Queer Paris" cycle offered by Clément, which also includes …