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The Top 8 French Diverse 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 Lgbtq+ fest 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 modify the speed of your podcast to make it easier to understand. Glimpse 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

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Featuring the most gay-owned businesses in the region, the town of Nice is considered the hub of LGBTQ+ action on the French Riviera.

The French Riviera is an internationally recognized year-round commute destination that suggestions something of interest to suit everyone’s lifestyle. The urban area of Nice is considered the hub of LGBTQ+ exercise 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 capital in the Cote d’Azur has a tourism information office that has a longstanding policy of being LGBTQ+ warm, so feel free to ask the desk clerks anything you would enjoy. 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

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Jabote said:

No, no tim, I did not mean 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 call 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" term is better, I believe, in this context because we are talking about language and "formal" is the normal phrase used to mean "high" register (eg the opposite of colloquial).

I suppose, though, that what I am suggesting is that "gay" is slowly becoming the "official" term. It's not there yet, but it really is quite unusual to hear "homosexual". In fact the only time you do really hear it is either in medical terms or, I think, when vicars and the like discuss it in terms of religion.

I mean, idk. Obviously TV shows vs reality, because it’s perpetually a widespread look for people who can actually braid their control hair/get it done without much fuss, especially in steaming weather or people with practical jobs. Whereas in TV shows, women are expected to possess loose pretty hair as much as possible, and that amount of practicality is a fine way to build a pretty personality sort of mushy 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 alike way… Unlike IRL, in TV Ground if you accept away loose pullable hair it’s immediately saying this chick 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 back her hair into a low 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 think of with an Deed Ponytail is Sameen Shaw and we know how that went :P)

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