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Contents:

• MOVG TO LGBT TORONTO, ONTAR? HOW TO FD YOUR PERFECT GAY NEIGHBORHOOD!
• LIFE DRAWG FOR GAY ASIAN GUYS
• ELEVEN AMAZG PHOTOGRAPHS THAT TELL THE GAY HISTORY OF TORONTO
• GAY LIFE DRAWGS

MOVG TO LGBT TORONTO, ONTAR? HOW TO FD YOUR PERFECT GAY NEIGHBORHOOD!

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This map of “Gay Toronto” origally appeared The Body Polic, a monthly gay magaze published om 1971 to 1987. Photograph urty of the Canadian Lbian and Gay Archiv.

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“Toronto is so much gayer than thks, ” says Jane Farrow, one of more than 100 ntributors and edors who ntributed to the new anthology Any Other Way: How Toronto Got Queer. Allan Garns was an early hot spot for both gay cisg (the tre provid ver for hookg up) and for surveillance (that’s a policeman pictured next to the central founta). The Toronto’s Island beach have been popular statns for the gay muny sce the 1950s, around the time this photo of late activist Philip McLeod ( strip) and his iends was taken.

Photograph urty of the Canadian Lbian and Gay Archiv. In the early 1960s, major papers like the Toronto Star and the Globe And Mail wouldn’t touch the subject of homosexualy, wh the exceptn of publishg articl that had to do wh hysteria about the queer muny.

ELEVEN AMAZG PHOTOGRAPHS THAT TELL THE GAY HISTORY OF TORONTO

The story was about the staff at the Kg Edward Hotel tryg to keep patrons of Letros Tavern, a gay bar across the street, om equentg the hotel’s washrooms.

Any Other Way speculat that the story, while anti-queer on the surface, actually helped gay men disver where (and where not) to go to meet other men. In the openg lyrics, “Tell her that I’m happy, tell her that I’m gay, ” Shane’s e of the word “gay” was thought to be a subtle nod to the queer scene, as wasn’t yet beg ed a sexual ntext mastream vernacular.

First Gay Pri March. In 1969, homosexualy had been crimalized Canada. And 1971, Canada’s first gay liberatn newsmagaze, The Body Polic, began publishg.

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But there was still much to march agast 1972—for stance, homosexualy was still nsired ​legal ​grounds for rejectg immigrants. “It was like this rollg gay terpillar that queered everythg s wake.