All rooms are equipped with an overhead projector
Rooms C, D, E, F, G and H (H only on Saturday): slide projector (framed slides, carrousel. There are extra carrousels available to set up your presentation in advance)
Rooms C, D, M, N, O, U and Committee Room 2: beamer to connect your laptop. You have to bring you own laptop. (If you want to use your Apple notebook, please contact us, as it may be incompatible.)
Rooms C, T and U: VCR
Programme
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The Road to Le Marais : Gay Paris from Secrecy to Visibility in the 20th Century
| This paper will address the changing nature of queer experience in Paris throughout the 20th century, in the perspective of urban history: where, and how, did gay men meet in the French capital, in the Belle Epoque, in the 1920s, in post-WW2 Paris or in the years of ‘liberation’ which followed 1968? What was the balance between open-air (public gardens, streets, squares, quays, urinals…) and behind-the-doors meeting places, how did it shift in time (nowadays there are plenty of commercial places while open air cruising has been on the decline for quite a long time) and how is it possible to explain it? By using tourist guides and directories as a major source, the paper will study the changing location of the commercial ‘ghetto’ (and address the very question of when that ‘commercial ghetto’ came into being), from Saint-Germain-des Prés in the 1950s to the rue Sainte-Anne in the 60s, and then to Les Halles and Le Marais in the 1970s-80s. It will relate it to the urban structure and the urban fabric, and reflect on the changes induced in the urban landscape. It will also address the dual questions of secrecy/visibility, and prosecution/tolerance, and the economic aspects of the gay leisure industry.
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