A LGBT+ Bookshop Is Being Forced Out Of Paris’s Queer Neighbourhood

A LGBT+ bookshop in Paris, specifically in the district of Marais, is being forced to shut down due to extreme rises in rents.

Over the past decade in LGBT+ friendly cities like New York, London, Madrid, San Francisco and Paris, queer neighbourhoods become more and more desirable leading to them being more expensive. As a result, a number of establishments which catered to the LGBT+ community are “forced” to shut down.

Sébastien Grisez, manager of the Parisian bookshop Les Mots à La Bouche talked about the “dark irony of promoting a neighbourhood as inclusive and diverse, while also allowing rising rents to push out the focal points of the community,” as ‘Indy100’ reports.

Grisez said that “Paris city hall promotes the gay history of the Marais and it has painted the crossroads here in rainbow colours, but no longer having our bookshop here seems absurd.

Ten years ago, there were far more gay bars here, now only a few are left. It’s true that gay sociology is changing – people are more spread out, there is perhaps less need to meet in bars when you can meet on apps. But even so, people regret that this neighbourhood meeting point is disappearing.”

Locals call the closing of the bookshop “the end of an era” who also say the area is “increasingly losing its soul.”

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