Landmarks & History
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Paris's historic LGBTQ+ quarter, centered on Rue Sainte-Croix de la Bretonnerie and Rue des Archives in the 4th arrondissement. A dense cluster of gay bars, clubs, bookshops, and cafés makes it one of Europe's most storied queer neighborhoods.
Montmartre cabaret with a long history of drag and transgender performance.
Annual LGBTQ+ film festival held in Paris each autumn, showing international films across genres.
Lesbian and feminist film festival held in Paris each autumn since 1989, run by the Cineffable association, with short and feature films, debates, workshops and performances.
A steel memorial in Paris by Jean-Luc Verna, unveiled in 2025, honouring gay victims of Nazi persecution and all LGBTQIA+ people persecuted through history, in the form of a star-tipped magic wand symbolizing remembrance, hope, and vigilance.
A Paris memorial to Bruno Lenoir and Jean Diot, the last men executed in France for homosexuality, in 1750.