Tips for Gay and Lbian Travelers Montreal | Frommer's

Contents:

• EXPLORE GAY ROOMS & RENTALS MONTREAL
• GAY QUEBEC TRAVEL GUI
• TIPS FOR GAY AND LBIAN TRAVELERS MONTREAL
• EXPLORG GAY MONTREAL
• DISVER MONTREAL'S GAY VILLAGE
• GAY PARTI AND EVENTS MONTREAL

EXPLORE GAY ROOMS & RENTALS MONTREAL

Reportedly, North Ameri's first LGBT publitn, "L Mouch Fantastiqu" (The Fantastic Fil) was found here 1918; by the early 1970s a queer bohemian scene was flourishg (1974 die film "Montreal Ma" offered a glimpse); the first Montreal Pri march took place 1979 (memoratg the 10th anniversary of NYC's Stonewall rts), and Montreal's famed "gay village" me to be the 1980s, as gay bars, clubs, and rints overtook a formerly impoverished, crep sectn of the cy's Centre-Sud district along Sate-Cathere Street East.

Rehgly, Montreal's gay village (which is closed to rs durg warmer months) remas a lively and ncentrated hub that's even more lerally lorful and easy to spot thanks to s overhead, 1 kilometer long "18 Shas Of Gay" - prised of 180, 000 lored recycled plastic r balls spend overhead. The gay-owned Spa & Palac offers "non-touristy tours" by bike and by foot, which are perfect for both newers and those who know the cy but would like a eper dive. Book the four-hour, lunch-clive Beyond The Bike Lan tour that vers both rintial and popular tourist zon cludg the Gay Village, or nsir the two-hour Beyond The Village one that spotlights the gayborhoood and s history and landmark s.

Get your selfi on the Gay Village durg daylight while takg s art stallatns and muny spac, cludg the Park of Hope (Parc L'poir) and AIDS Memorial. Montreal-based graphic novel publisher Drawn & Quarterly has a fantastic store, Librarie Drawn & Quarterly, the buzzy Mile End district, a favore stompg ground of lol, acclaimed gay filmmaker and actor, Xavier Dolan.

GAY QUEBEC TRAVEL GUI

Bota Bota Spa, suated on a multi-level ship the Old Port, is a iendly spot to unwd and get pampered (wh kid-iendly hours), though some mal might prefer one of Montreal's adults only gay snas, which clu the 24-hour Sna Oasis and four-floor Sna G. You'll fd most of Montreal's LGBTQ nightlife nveniently ncentrated s gay village along Ste. While the Gay Village's dg scene hasn't exactly proven as foodie-centric as other parts of Montreal (lols might feel that's puttg diplomatilly), there has been some improvement the past few years.

TIPS FOR GAY AND LBIAN TRAVELERS MONTREAL

A few blocks away, the chic 152-room gay-fave W Montreal is posed jt across om the Square-Victoria-OACI metro statn (look for s art nouve Paris-style entrance porti, a 1967 gift om the Cy of Lights) and received s own prehensive, multiln update 2015. If you're keen to be based the Gay Village a gay-owned property, make rervatns at the five-room Sir Montlm Ge B&B. From private rooms and apartments to LGBTQ-iendly hotels, you have the optn to stay the heart of gay districts as well as other neighborhoods the plac you vis.

A loft Soho, a shared room Barcelona or the Castro, a gay-iendly hotel Le Marais or Chelsea, experience misterb&b all gay travel statns! Gay Quebec. In Montreal you n fd one of the most thrivg gay districts led the Village which boasts a large number of nighclubs, bars, rtrants, amazg ftivals, and iendly lols.

There are also many hotels and bed and breakfasts terg to the gay muny.

EXPLORG GAY MONTREAL

Take advantage of all that Quebec has to offer gay travelers! Tips for Gay and Lbian Travelers Montreal. The provce of Québec is a statn for ternatnal gay travelers.

Gay life here is generally open and accepted (gay marriage is legal throughout the provce), and gay travelers are heavily marketed to. Travelers will fd the rabow flag promently displayed on the doors and webs of many hotels and rtrants all the cy's Tourisme Montréal webse,, has a "Gay and Lbian" lk unr "Tourist" that lists gay-iendly acmodatns, events, webs for queer meet-ups, and more. Of several lol queer publitns, the most thorough is Fugu (), which lists events, as well as gay-iendly lodggs, clubs, snas, and other rourc.

Gay Le (tel. In Montréal, many gay and lbian travelers head straight to the Village (also known as "the Gay Village"), a neighborhood east of downtown loted primarily along e Ste-Cathere t between e St-Hubert and e Pape.

DISVER MONTREAL'S GAY VILLAGE

It's operated by the Québec Gay Chamber of Commerce (). Home to one of North Ameri's most famo gay neighborhoods -- simply known as the Gay Village, or Le Village Gai to the cy's predomantly anphone populatn -- Montreal even marks as such on s official tourism maps. Canada's send biggt cy also hosts a slew of gay-popular annual events and ftivals, and was the se of the first-ever World Outgam (a preement global LGBT sportg event) 2006.

Montreal's long gay history dat all the way back to 1869, when one Moise Tellier ran a shop on what's now Sat Antoe Street sellg appl and k -- but more legendarily was a place for gay gentlemen to renzvo.

A century later the Stonewall era, most of Montreal's gay life was cltered at the cy center along Sat Lrent Boulevard. The 1970s and '80s saw LGBT tablishments move eastward en masse, creatg today's Gay Village the e-or-so stretch of Sat Cathere Street (or Rue Sate-Cathere) between Berri and Pape Streets. The Village pris self on offerg venu for every sha of the gay rabow.

GAY PARTI AND EVENTS MONTREAL

At the bottom end of the Village are Circ and Stereo, both mixed gay/straight after-hours dance ns that rank on DJ Magaze's list of the Top 100 clubs the world. Like any neighborhood, the Village is nstantly evolvg -- but the recent sudn closur of 2 longtime Village mastays (lbian club Dgstore and gay megastore Priape) still stunned the lol LGBT muny. " Meanwhile, Montreal's spectm of gay life ntu to expand beyond the zy nf of the Village, pecially wtward to the up-and-g Mile End and adjacent Mile-Ex neighborhoods -- the latter formerly a solate dtrial area between Mile End and the Parc Extensn district.

Mile End is also home to the always lively Royal Phoenix, now the cy's ma lbian hangout -- which also attracts a wi variety of morn gays, and a fair number of straight folks, too. Wh such an active gay scene cywi, 's no surprise that Montreal's LGBT muny plays a big part s famed annual ftival le-up. The cy hosts not 1 but 2 major week-long gay-specific events: the Divers/Cé arts and mic ftival at the end of July, and the massive Montreal Pri (Fierté Montréal) jt a few weeks later mid-Augt.