The gay Marais, a map of the checked addresses

Where the district sits

Time Out places the gay Marais around rue des Archives, rue Sainte-Croix-de-la-Bretonnerie and rue Vieille-du-Temple. This page lists only addresses that present themselves as LGBTQ+ and have a trace of activity in 2026. We make no assumption about any other bar, restaurant or shop in the district: if a place does not describe itself that way in what we read, it does not appear.

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Addresses

• Cox, 15 rue des Archives (4th). A gay bar of the Marais, with a happy hour until 10 p.m. Open daily from 5 p.m. to 2 a.m. according to its website, updated on 4 October 2026. The Time Out entry is old, so we cite only the address and the official hours.
• Le Raidd Bar, 23 rue du Temple (4th). A gay bar with drag nights and shows. Its site carries 2026 news, including a summer terrace from 1 April 2026.
• La Mutinerie, 176-178 rue Saint-Martin (3rd). A queer-feminist bar and venue with concerts and DJ sets, listed by Time Out in its LGBT section. Open daily from 5 p.m. on an undated page, so the 2026 proof is weak. It sits near Beaubourg, outside the strict Marais.
• Centre LGBTQI+ de Paris et d’Île-de-France, 63 rue Beaubourg (3rd). Reception centre, library and associations, with free reception.

Open Café, Le 3W Kafé, Le Quetzal, Le Spyce, Bear’s Den, Dépôt and Le Tango are not listed, because their only traces are Time Out entries of 2011 to 2013, a social-media page, or no official site.

A short history of the district

According to Wikipedia, an LGBT community has strengthened in the Marais since the 1980s, and the rue Sainte-Croix-de-la-Bretonnerie is its commercial hub: bars, restaurants, bookshops and clothes shops. Two public places carry the memory: the place Harvey-Milk, with a rainbow-coloured pedestrian crossing, and the place des Émeutes-de-Stonewall, an official memorial to Gilbert Baker. Our four addresses sit near these streets, not on them, and we do not say that one street is more gay than another.

How far apart the addresses are

We geocoded the four addresses with the national address base. Cox (rue des Archives) and Le Raidd Bar (rue du Temple) are 122 m apart in a straight line, 2 minutes on foot by our rule of 1.3 times the straight line at 80 metres a minute. La Mutinerie and the LGBTQI+ Centre are 167 m apart, 3 minutes. The two pairs are about 410 to 540 m from each other, 7 to 9 minutes.

From / to	Straight line	On foot
Cox to Le Raidd Bar	122 m	2 min
La Mutinerie to the LGBTQI+ Centre	167 m	3 min
Le Raidd Bar to La Mutinerie	411 m	7 min
Le Raidd Bar to the LGBTQI+ Centre	468 m	8 min
Cox to La Mutinerie	509 m	8 min
Cox to the LGBTQI+ Centre	536 m	9 min

The first pair stands in the 4th arrondissement, close to the BHV (158 m from Cox, 199 m from Le Raidd Bar); the second in the 3rd, near the Centre Pompidou building, which is closed, and the Museum of Jewish Art and History, 254 m from the Centre. The Centre is the one address on the list that is not a bar.

Hotels beside each address

These are straight-line figures from our coordinates. Hôtel Duo, four stars, is 97 m from Le Raidd Bar; Hôtel de la Bretonnerie, three stars, is 98 m from Cox, with Le Grand Mazarin, five stars, at 111 m. Hôtel Georgette, four stars, is the nearest to La Mutinerie (92 m) and to the Centre (121 m). Twelve hotels of our base are within 300 m of Cox, eleven of Le Raidd Bar, nine of the Centre and four of La Mutinerie.

Metro for the four addresses

The two pairs of addresses are served by different stations.

• Hôtel Duo, 97 m from Le Raidd Bar, lists Hôtel de Ville (lines 1 and 11) at 150 m, 2 min on foot; Rambuteau (line 11) at 450 m, 6 min on foot.
• 1er Étage Marais, 50 m from Cox, lists Hôtel de Ville (lines 1 and 11) at 350 m, 5 min on foot; Rambuteau (line 11) at 400 m, 5 min on foot.
• Hôtel Georgette, 92 m from La Mutinerie, lists Rambuteau (line 11) at 300 m, 4 min on foot; Étienne Marcel (line 4) at 300 m, 4 min on foot.

What the Centre offers, and when

The Centre LGBTQI+ is the one address of the four that is not a bar, and its official site is precise. Reception is open Monday to Friday from 3 p.m. to 8 p.m. and on Saturday from 1 p.m. to 7 p.m.; on Sunday, from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m., it is reserved for support to asylum seekers. The library has its own hours: Monday to Wednesday from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. and Friday and Saturday from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. The services listed are legal support, health and mental-health resources, support groups and cultural activities. Wheelchair access is limited to the ground floor, and a buzzer at the gate calls for help. The site names Arts et Métiers (line 3) and Rambuteau (line 11) as the stations.

What the bars say about themselves

Cox says it is open seven days a week from 5 p.m. to 2 a.m., with a happy hour until 10 p.m. and DJ programming. The Le Raidd Bar site announces drag nights and shows. La Mutinerie describes itself as a queer-feminist bar and venue with concerts and DJ sets. We repeat these descriptions without judging them, and we publish no price, since only Time Out gives a band for La Mutinerie.

Getting there

Rue des Archives and rue du Temple are both in the 4th arrondissement. On line 8, trains skip République from 22 July 2026 to April 2027; lines 3, 5, 9 and 11 stop there. Our map of Le Marais places the streets, and the nightlife page covers other bars.

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Where to stay

The hotels below are those nearest to rue des Archives, sorted by distance. For the whole arrondissement see the hotels of the 4th.