More than 100,000 people led the streets of downtown Montreal on Sunday for the cy's annual Gay Pri para.
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MONTREAL PRI PARA DRAWS TENS OF THOANDS TO GAY VILLAGE
✍️ HommeHomo brgs Drk & Draw back to Bar Le Cocktail on Wednday, July 5 and Wednday, July 19, 2023, featurg live mols and drk specials. ? REEL GAY screens the Twilight saga’s New Moon wh live mentary featurg the one and only Tranna Wtour on Tuday, July 11, 2023 at The Divg Bell Social Club.
?Montréal Gaymers hosts regular gathergs cludg board game nights and gamg gathergs. ? Callg all gaymers: The Gahds (Uma and Selma) host Jackbox Gam wh The Gahds at Bar Le Cocktail on Saturday, July 1, 2023.
Time travel to a different kd of of gay venue. Dance your ass off at the biggt gay dance party outsi of the Village. Mec Pl Ultra, or MPU for those the know, is a monthly dance party of electro/die/pop mic where all the gays and their alli let loose.
MONTREAL FET GAY PRI
MPU started out as an optn for gays that simply uldn’t fd anythg that appealed to them Montréal’s LGBTQ+ Village. As for gay ftivals, there are a number of them, om the huge Montréal Pri celebratns, to more timate events such as image+natn, a film ft specializg LGBTQ+ cema. 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.