Les Souffleuses

Les Souffleuses is a small, alternative queer bar-club in the heart of the gay Marais, a narrow, long room a few steps from Hôtel de Ville that's long been a beloved fixture of Paris LGBTQ+ nightlife (regulars may remember it as Les Souffleurs, and before that Le Thermik). It's the kind of place that feels like home the moment you walk in, thanks to a warm, attentive team and a refreshingly un-commercial music policy that sets it apart from the sometimes buttoned-up gay Marais. Calm and café-like by day, with all leather sofas and a quiet coffee or a cheap early-evening punch, it reveals a whole other face at night, when the erotically charged downstairs cellar fills up for drag shows, Drag King open stages, wild DJ sets, concerts and aftershows. From Thursday through the weekend, expect a genuine tidal wave of people. Festive, inclusive, and one-of-a-kind, it's a true paris institution.