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The Top 8 French Homosexual Podcasts
Last June, we wrote about our favoriteFrench Gay movies, and this year we’ve decided to enlarge our resources about the LGBTQ+ experience in France. Below, you’ll find some of the best French podcasts to celebrate Celebration Month! Check back soon for a list of our favorite French books about the LGBTQ+ experience.
If you love working on your French comprehension skills by listening to podcasts or hearing unscripted conversations, make sure you haven’t missed our articles aboutUnscripted French TV Shows and Our Favorite Podcasts in 2023. Finally, just un petit rappel (quick reminder) that you can convert the speed of your podcast to make it easier to understand. Spot a tiphere if you’re not sure how to do it!
By Sophia Millman
Gouinement lundi
Focusing on lesbian identities
For the past nine years, “Gouinement lundi” has been handing the microphone over to lesbians, bi and trans people on various subjects. These range from queer culture, sexuality, and lesbophobia at work to gynecology, rap, and cooking. You’ll find as many fascinating conversations as skilled speakers: guests include scientific experts, political activist
EXPLORING THE GAY FRENCH RIVIERA: NICE, FRANCE
Featuring the most gay-owned businesses in the region, the metropolis of Nice is considered the hub of LGBTQ+ outing on the French Riviera.
The French Riviera is an internationally recognized year-round move destination that applications something of interest to suit everyone’s lifestyle. The urban area of Nice is considered the hub of LGBTQ+ outing with the most gay-owned businesses in the region, and it is also home to the Pink Parade (Pride) each summer. Here you will also find the Centre LGBTQAI+ Cote d’Azur where meetings and events are held, along with an open-door policy offering those who are visiting the area any information they require.
Bay of Angels, Nice, France (Photo by Sergii Zinko)
To keep visitors’ informed about what to see, do, and experience, each metropolis in the Cote d’Azur has a tourism information office that has a longstanding policy of being LGBTQ+ amiable, so feel free to ask the desk clerks anything you would favor. In Nice, there is Nice Tourism and Explore Nice Cote d’Azur.
Seeking a place to stay in Nice? Hotel Amour Nice is gay-owned and within walking distance of the beach and all loca
I mean, idk. Obviously TV shows vs reality, because it’s perpetually a popular look for people who can actually braid their own hair/get it done without much fuss, especially in steaming weather or people with practical jobs. Whereas in TV shows, women are expected to own loose pretty hair as much as possible, and that amount of practicality is a nice way to make a cute character sort of soft butch without cutting off an actress’s hair, and it’s saying, unlike all the floofy-haired ladies, I am not available for consumption in the same way… Unlike IRL, in TV Land if you take away loose pullable hair it’s immediately saying this woman is different and not available or strong… Like… obviously it’s nonsense… but in the sort of industry we’re talking about, this is where Olivia Dunham in Fringe pulling assist her hair into a shallow un-sexy ponytail while taking part in SWAT raids was considered somewhat groundbreaking and worth commenting on >.>
(and incidentally the only other character I can consider of with an Action Ponytail is Sameen Shaw and we know how that went :P)
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Jabote said:
No, no tim, I did not indicate that it was colloquial, I was just saying that if it is used in France now (as opposed to 10 years ago when I had never heard it used there yet), it is not the formal term, the formal term (let's name it "official" term) is homosexuel, that's all ! I know it is not colloquial in English but it is not the "official" term either, that's what I meant, sorry if I was not clear !
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Ahh, ok. Yes "official" phrase is better, I think, in this context because we are talking about language and "formal" is the normal term used to mean "high" register (eg the other side of colloquial).
I guess, though, that what I am suggesting is that "gay" is slowly becoming the "official" designation. It's not there yet, but it really is quite unusual to overhear "homosexual". In proof the only occasion you do really hear it is either in medical terms or, I think, when vicars and the love discuss it in terms of religion.