Established 1993 the heart of Toronto's Gay Village, Remgton's is Toronto's only licensed all-male strip club. There are two fully renovated floors, one exclively men-only on Fridays and Saturdays.
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- TOP 5 GAY CLUBS & BARS CHURCH-YONGE CORRIDOR (TORONTO)GAY CLUBS & BARS CHURCH-YONGE CORRIDOR
- ELEVEN AMAZG PHOTOGRAPHS THAT TELL THE GAY HISTORY OF TORONTO
- THE 5 BEST THGS TO DO CHURCH-YONGE CORRIDOR, TORONTOSEE ALL THGS TO DOGAY CLUBS & BARS CHURCH-YONGE CORRIDOR
TOP 5 GAY CLUBS & BARS CHURCH-YONGE CORRIDOR (TORONTO)GAY CLUBS & BARS CHURCH-YONGE CORRIDOR
Top 5 Gay Clubs & Bars Church-Yonge Corridor: See reviews and photos of Gay Clubs & Bars Church-Yonge Corridor, Toronto (Ontar) on Tripadvisor. * yonge gay *
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ELEVEN AMAZG PHOTOGRAPHS THAT TELL THE GAY HISTORY OF TORONTO
A iendly garner and mall Santa, McArthur may also have been the worst ever serial killer of gay men. Did police turn a bld eye? * yonge gay *
“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.
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.
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.
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But there was still much to march agast 1972—for stance, homosexualy was still nsired legal grounds for rejectg immigrants. LGBT teams ma possible for queers to reclaim public space, and their rise wh the cy gave Toronto a reputatn as a hub of queer sports, pecially as lol teams formed relatnships wh gay leagu across North Ameri. On Febary 5, 1981, police raid a number of Toronto bathho, plac of sanctuary for gay men, and arrted hundreds of people, many of whom hadn’t yet e out to fay or iends.
Origatg 1960s Japan, where was known as “yaoi, ” BL typilly picts two men a homoerotic relatnship. Wily regnized as South Korea’s first openly gay K-pop artist, the sger and actor Go Tae-seob, who the stage name Holland, starred a BL drama last year and believ that the growg visibily of BL books, TV seri and movi is a posive step. Bdette, who also intifi as gay and is a longstandg BL fan, said the genre will shake up nservative views on genr and sexualy South Korea.
“Whether you are a heterosexual woman tryg to ject your sexual tonomy to the world, or you are a gay man who wants to see posive reprentatns of male-male romance, BL n be ed, ” he said.
When you thk of gay anime characters, you probably thk of yaoi and yuri, but great LGBT anime characters n be found other genr. Learn about the history of sexualy and genr Japan, how their attus differ om the US, and which LGBT characters challenge stereotyp. * yonge gay *
Ask any gay person who was clubbg the 80s and 90s and they'll tell you Boots was the place to be.
Joseph Street is now a ndo, but was once 500-person pacy gay mec wh a uple of lounge areas and a very, very active dance floor. This Gloucter street nightclub is now closed but is where you uld fd some of Toronto's most big-budget drag shows, big-name circu DJs and a mostly gay, but very welg crowd of dancers over two floors.