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Paris tourism officials want to give new meaning to the term "Gay Paree." The French capital has always wooed visitors with its reputation for fine dining and high fashion, and Paris continually. Paris is often called "Gay Paree," with "gay" meaning happy, joyful and lively.

One idea that has sparked great interest was dreamed up in the small Loire Valley city of Le Mans, best known for its hour auto race. The French capital has always wooed visitors with its reputation for fine dining and high fashion, and Paris continually cashes in on its mystique as the land of love and romance.

Ideas also include discount tours geared to the nightclub scene and other Paris in-spots. At the mayor's office and the tourism paree, which has funded a press junket this week for journalists from American gay publications, officials call it the next frontier of tourism.

Paris is paying special attention to the American gay community. Delanoe couldn't attend a meeting last gay to inaugurate the gay-friendly tourism campaign because he was recuperating from a stabbing attack by a man who said he disliked homosexuals. Chrome Safari Continue.

An outdated guide called Gay Friendly France is being revamped for circulation at French tourism offices in the United States as of June The Maison de la France in Los Angeles is working with American tour operators and helped organize this week's fully paid trip to France for gay media on the theme of gay tourism.

London and Berlin, like Paris, have prominent gay districts, which are featured on their tourism Web sites along with listings for gay-friendly hotels and restaurants. The overall challenge for officials working on the campaign is to tweak the image of a city famous for photographs like the Robert Doisneau snapshot of a man and woman stealing a kiss incidentally in front of City Hall.

Wheels have only begun turning on the project, which is not to be publicly launched until June After convening a meeting of experts on gay tourism last month at City Hall for an initial brainstorming session, a marketing blitz was born. Signatories paste rainbow-colored stickers in their windows with the message "Welcome to Mans" and a smiley face to let customers know they are gay friendly.

Membership is optional, and so far 37 establishments have signed up, including restaurants, bars, travel agencies, a body piercer and all the city's hotels.

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Berlin, London and Lisbon among others have geared marketing toward gay and lesbian visitors, particularly in the United States, for years. Supporters say the rainbow smiley face sends a message of tolerance. But others questioned the tactic as being perhaps a little too politically correct.

Paris is hardly the first European capital to target the gay tourist. The film’s opening number introduces us to Carroll “Toddy” Todd (Robert Preston), a homosexual cabaret singer who sings a song with coded lyrics about Paris' homosexual underground.

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Officials in Paris say they are encouraged by a trend toward greater tolerance but are still battling conservatism and homophobia. Travel agents that cater to gay clients are planning package tours to coincide with summer festivals like Gay Pride parade, which last June drew a record half-million people.

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.