Rising rents push out famous LGBT bookshop from Paris’s gay district 0 SHARES Share it! Share TweetBy Agence France-PresseFrance’s oldest LGBT bookshop is being pushed out of Paris’s trendy gay district due to skyrocketing rents fanned by gentrification, tourism and top brands which have opened outlets there. But the landlord now wants the rent to be hiked by four times — in keeping with the market rate — and the bookshop will have to relocated after more than 36 years, Nicolas Wanstok, who works at the bookshop, told AFP. Les Mots a la Bouche is a historic bookshop, Paris’s deputy mayor for culture Christophe Girard, told AFP. Several historic establishments have been pushed out of the quarter by rising rents

Source: Manila Bulletin January 18, 2020 14:42 UTC