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Paris, Paris
One of Le Marais's oldest gay bars, with an artsy and laid-back crowd
Duplex opened in 1980 and is the last of the pioneering gay bars of Le Marais still in operation, sitting at the quieter northern edge of the quarter on Rue Michel le Comte. It draws an artsy, intellectual crowd to a simple, low-key room where the high walls double as a rotating gallery for local artists and the music stays eclectic rather than club-driven. It's one of the few bars in the area where conversation actually wins out over volume. The building carries real history: in 1984, AIDES, the first French organization to fight AIDS, was founded in an apartment upstairs. Weekends get busy, but the Duplex keeps its character as a talk-and-drink bar rather than a dance floor, which makes it a worthwhile change of pace from the louder rooms a few streets south.
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