Montreal Gay Cy Gui: LGBTQ Activi, Events and Gayborhoods

Contents:

• ALL GAY GBY CLUB TAK THE ADVANTAGE
• INCLIVE RUGBY: HOW CANADA'S GAY RUGBY CLUBS OPEN THE SPORT TO ALL
• THE 10 BEST MONTREAL GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS MONTREAL
• DISMANTLG STEREOTYP: 10 INSPIRG GAY RUGBY PLAYERS AND PERSONALI
• MONTREAL GAY CY GUI: A CY OF FUN, FTIVALS, AND FRIENDLY NEIGHBORS
• MONTREAL GAY SNAS

ALL GAY GBY CLUB TAK THE ADVANTAGE

QUEBEC’S FIRST GAY INCLUSIVE & LGBT+ RUGBY TEAM. Born the summer of 2014, the Armada Montreal RFC is the very first clive gay gby club to emerge Quebec. The men's team, now part of the IGR (Internatnal Gay Rugby) associatn, stood out at the 2016 Bgham Cup Nashville, TN, placg 3rd their divisn.

The Bgham Cup, also known as the Mark Kendall Bgham Memorial Tournament, is the biennial world champnships of gay and clive gby. That same year the Wolv also beme a member of the Internatnal Gay Rugby, an anizatn signed to elimate discrimatn of sexual orientatns or intifitn the sport by providg members of the 2SLGBTQ+ muny a chance to play gby an clive gby club. “Wh everythg that has happened sce 2018 – I know that the Internatnal Gay Rugby fay needs this tournament more than ever.

Time travel to a different kd of of gay venue.

INCLIVE RUGBY: HOW CANADA'S GAY RUGBY CLUBS OPEN THE SPORT TO ALL

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. MPU started out as an optn for gays that simply uldn’t fd anythg that appealed to them Montréal’s LGBTQ+ Village.

THE 10 BEST MONTREAL GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS MONTREAL

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.

DISMANTLG STEREOTYP: 10 INSPIRG GAY RUGBY PLAYERS AND PERSONALI

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.

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.

MONTREAL GAY CY GUI: A CY OF FUN, FTIVALS, AND FRIENDLY NEIGHBORS

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.

The ia of a profsnal gay athlete has somehow always enuntered ristance and ntroversy wh the sports muny.

It was this disfort twelve years ago that phed a few gay gby players Toronto to cidg to put together the first gay-iendly gby team the cy.

MONTREAL GAY SNAS

The club also travels for exhibn match agast other gay teams, hosts the annual Beaver Bowl Tournament and every two years participat the Bgham Cup, an ternatnal petn featurg gay sis om several unns Jeffery, Muddy York RFC print and a veteran player, believ the cy still needs a gay-iendly team.

“But thgs have changed, more and more youngsters now feel ee to manift their sexualy schools and sport teams, ” he a hub the Church and Wellley village, Muddy York RFC is open to all levels of players and sexual orientatn and offers a reliable platform for newers tryg to build a social life a new is now host to three all-gay gby teams after the Montreal Armada recently joed the Ottawa Wolv and Muddy York.

Thomas was the first gay profsnal gby player to e York RFC warms up at Jarvis Perez plays for Muddy York RFC and is the vice print of the York ns through practice tackl and impacts durg one of their bi-weekly Eric Demarbre and pta Jimmy Pl Markis and partner Kasimir Kosakowski chat on the balny of their Toronto ndo. At a time when homophobia and hypermasculy still n rampant throughout men’s sports, clive gby clubs are settg a shg example of how teams n enurage participatn among those who have tradnally been unr-reprented across the game.