Gay Kiss-in Brings Shopping Center to Brief Standstill in Paris
Activists staged a kiss-in to combat homophobia on Saturday in Forum des Halles, an underground shopping center in Paris. The action lasted approximately 5 minutes.
Watch a video, AFTER THE JUMP...
And for a small gallery of photos of participants, check out phillipe leroyer's flickr page.
(image above phillipe leroyer)
Posted Sep. 28,2009 at 5:15 PM EST by Andy Towle in France, Kiss, News, Paris | Permalink
While this is just on the edge of the gayest neighborhood in Paris, it is, well, a mall in France. Les Halles is not the most sophisticated crowd in the city (which is a polite way of saying the bottom of the barrel).
Posted by: zeddt | Sep 28, 2009 6:00:28 PM
cool :)
Posted by: me | Sep 28, 2009 6:01:34 PM
Awww....this makes me think of all the Queer Nation activities in the early 90s. Those were fun. (I'm old).
Posted by: henry | Sep 28, 2009 6:21:42 PM
L'amour, l'amour, toujours l'amour. :)
Posted by: Dback | Sep 28, 2009 7:11:29 PM
It's all about making ourselves visible. Go for it!
Posted by: declan | Sep 28, 2009 7:17:46 PM
Les Halles may be steps from the Marais, but the typical patrons at this mall are very different--urban, non-white, less affluent, less educated. As a result, I think it was the PERFECT place for an action like this.
Posted by: Asher | Sep 28, 2009 7:34:10 PM
DBACK:
aussi--La publicité! La publicité! ;)
Posted by: Christopher | Sep 28, 2009 9:02:43 PM
CHRISTOPHER:
"But, I"M DANDY GELATINE!"
Posted by: Derek Washington | Sep 28, 2009 9:05:59 PM
Asher I understood what you meant but still..."urban, non-white, less affluent, less educated?"
1) The use of the term 'non-white' implies 'other' as in if you're not white you're something else. A better term would have been something like "racially-diverse."
2) Urban doesn't necessarily = "no whites," doesn't = less affluent, doesn't = less educated. It just means urban where people of all walks of life can be found.
Posted by: Hmmm | Sep 28, 2009 11:43:37 PM
Derek, you're right. In truth, "Urban" was really code for "ghetto", and "non-white" was really code for "immigrant". Now at least my comment sounds overtly racist and xenophobic!
Posted by: Asher | Sep 29, 2009 3:39:17 AM
Le kiss in dijonnais! L'amour façon 'mustard"!
http://www.dailymotion.com/relevance/search/kiss+in+dijon/video/xamqiv_kiss-in-dijon-260909_webcam
Posted by: Anna | Sep 30, 2009 3:36:42 PM
They don't care if you are gay in France as long as you are not fat
Posted by: bill | Oct 29, 2009 7:12:52 AM