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Contents:
- GAY
- GAY TORONTO THE 1970S
- 12 OF THE HOTTT GAY BARS TORONTO FOR STEAMY NIGHTS
- THE 5 BEST TORONTO GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS TORONTO
- TORONTO GAY DISTRICT: THE VILLAGE
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In this edn of her nightlife-history seri, Denise Benson tak back to the after-hours nightclub that helped mobilize Toronto’s gay-rights movement the 1980s. History: In 1980s’ Toronto, street rners and dance clubs still served as sential meetg spots for gays and other margalized muni.
GAY TORONTO THE 1970S
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On the outer edg of the Church and Wellley-centred gay village, the rner was close to popular homo hnts cludg Yonge Street’s St. Charl Tavern, Trax, and the Parksi Tavern, wh gay dance club Stag above .
12 OF THE HOTTT GAY BARS TORONTO FOR STEAMY NIGHTS
Nearby bathho were plentiful, Queen’s Park was still a major pick-up spot, and easy bar-hoppg meant that gay men had lots of optns even those pre-Grdr days. “The Yonge and Isabella area was really amazgly gay, ” rells event producer Maxwell Blandford, once a key figure adventurome Toronto clubs and now based Miami. “Many bars, along wh stor like Northbound Leather, were wh a uple of blocks and fed thoands of gay people to that rridor.
There was also the Chez Moi - my first gay bar Toronto and a b of a hallucatn. One of the hotels on Jarvis briefly had a gay bar too, lled "The Carriage Hoe" that was closg when my iend got here.
THE 5 BEST TORONTO GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS TORONTO
One of the largt and longt-lastg gay dance clubs Toronto, this Sherbourne Street super-club went through a number of evolutns as spurred the lol mastreamg of gay culture durg the ’80s and ’90s. History: The story of Boots, one of Toronto’s bt-known and longt-lastg gay dance clubs, begs 1980 at the Waldorf Astoria apartment buildg.
TORONTO GAY DISTRICT: THE VILLAGE
Photo by Joan Anrson, urty of the Canadian Lbian & Gay Archiv. Wh the help of two rare DJ mix, we revis the early-‘80s Yonge Street club that provid Toronto’s gay muny wh a safe haven and showsed cuttg-edge dance-mic sounds, before the spectre of AIDS brought the party to a close.
By the mid-1960s, both taverns were known to be gay bars. At that pot history, gay nightlife Toronto was still very much unrground.