Gay paree
Paris tourism officials wish to give new sense to the term "Gay Paree."
The French capital has always wooed visitors with its reputation for satisfactory dining and high fashion, and Paris continually cashes in on its mystique as the land of love and romance.
Now, Town Hall has a fresh strategy: selling Paris as a leading destination for gay travelers.
At the mayor's office and the tourism bureau, which has funded a press junket this week for journalists from American gay publications, officials call it the next frontier of tourism.
"We crave to create a queer friendly spirit across the whole city," said Laurent Queige, one of the project's organizers at Urban area Hall. "It's an entire marketing campaign devoted to gay tourism: promotions, brochures, media trips, Web sites, tour packages."
Officials in Paris say they are encouraged by a trend toward greater tolerance but are still battling conservatism and homophobia.
Paris Mayor Bertrand Delanoe, when elected last year became the city's first openly gay mayor and proudly led this summer's Gay Pride parade. Delanoe couldn't attend a gathering last month to inaugurate the gay-friendly tourism campaign because he was recuperating from a stab
Historic Iris Gallery
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TB 38″ EM
From Eden Road Iris Garden catalog for 1956, Introduction: “This is the gay, colorful, carnival affair that you’ve been waiting for. The plant is a snowy white self. There is an overlay of chartreuse emerald and gold on the upper part of the falls, and a weighty geranium-red beard gives the finishing contact. This is already breeding some startling seedlings. Fertile both ways. Advance orders have been booked so speak prior to make sure of getting this beauty… H. C. ’55.”
From Schreiner’s Iris Lover’s catalog for 1960: “This flashy, highly colored, carnival-like flower is a piquant iris that will illuminate your garden. A snowy white floret with an overlay of chartreuse and gold on the upper part of the falls and a heavy geranium-red beard. Sparkling.”
(Hall pink sdlg x The Capitol) X (Loomis pink sdlg x Golden Eagle), HM 1956.
Paeonia, Pink Peony 'Gay Paree'
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Gay Paree Peony | Paeonia 'Gay Paree'
Height: 30 inches
Spacing: 26 inches
Sunlight: full sun
Hardiness Zone: 3a
Brand: Gertens
Description:
A beautiful plant with long lasting large magenta blooms with pale pink stamens in the center; lovely illumination green foliage and a lovely fragrance; suitable for mass plantings; late season bloomer
Ornamental Features
Gay Paree Peony features bold lightly-scented pink flowers with creamy white centers at the ends of the stems from late spring to early summer. The flowers are excellent for cutting. Its compound leaves are light green in color. The foliage often turns coppery-bronze in fall.
Landscape Attributes
Gay Paree Peony is an herbaceous perennial with a more or less rounded form. Its medium texture blends into the garden, but can always be balanced by a couple of finer or coarser plants for an powerful composition.
This plant will require occasional maintenance and upkeep, and should be cut back in after time fall in preparation for winter. Deer don't particularly care for this plant and will usually leave it alone in
Gay Paree
"Look at France, oh god, look at France."
— Ernest Hemingway, A Moveable Feast
Ah, Paris. France's capital and one of the world's great cities. With its roomy, bustling boulevards; the beautiful Napoleonic architecture of the pivotal arrondissements; the affluent, multicolored culture of the Arabs and Africans from the surrounding banlieues; the fast-paced acrobats of Le Parkour hailing from the southern suburb of Évry; the brilliant and captivating Oriental neighborhood of Olympiades; the grand, iconic entrances and stations of Le Métropolitain; and the shiny, futuristic skyline of the modern skyscrapers gathered around the Bibliothèque nationale◊ and La Défense◊...
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