Divas and Drag Shows: Plan the Ultimate Toronto Gaytn

Contents:

• 12 OF THE HOTTT GAY BARS TORONTO FOR STEAMY NIGHTS
• THE 5 BEST TORONTO GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS TORONTO
• DIVAS AND DRAG SHOWS: GRAB YOUR GLTER FOR THE ULTIMATE TORONTO GAYTN
• TOP 5 GAY CLUBS & BARS DOWNTOWN (TORONTO)SEE ALL THGS TO DOGAY CLUBS & BARS DOWNTOWN
• THE 5 BEST TORONTO GAY CLUBS & BARSSEE ALL THGS TO DOGAY CLUBS & BARS TORONTO
• TORONTO GAY DISTRICT: THE VILLAGE

12 OF THE HOTTT GAY BARS TORONTO FOR STEAMY NIGHTS

Pri isn’t over after June 30 — celebrate your urage and nnect wh the LGBTQ+ muny year-round at the most fabulo gay bars Toronto. Historilly, gay bars Toronto have served as safe spac where queer liv uld exist unapologetilly.

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THE 5 BEST TORONTO GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS TORONTO

Toronto's gay bars provi safe spac for LGBTQ+ folks and a rip-roarg time for everyone. From live drag performanc and viewg parti to amazg events, the gay bars Toronto are brimmg wh good there are we bars, rtrants and hotels that host special nights and pop-ups, there is nothg que like fdg muny Church-Wellley’s Village. It is here you’ll fd a plethora of gay bars, bookshops, and muny spac that have been the centre of queer history.

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DIVAS AND DRAG SHOWS: GRAB YOUR GLTER FOR THE ULTIMATE TORONTO GAYTN

Fear not — if you’re lookg to spice up your dner, then stop by The Lodge, a well-loved gay bar Toronto’s village.

This gay bar is one of the most popular (and send olst) pubs at Church and Wellley. Hair of the Dog425 Church ’t let the name fool you, this gay bar and rtrant is known for s upsle dg and pat experience.

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Pegas Bar489B Church of the most inic (and olst) gay bars Toronto’s village, Pegas is the perfect spot for game night, pecially if you’ve got a petive streak.

Although not specifilly a gay bar, Storm Crow Manor is loted at the rner of Church Street and has been known to be a safe space for LGBTQ2S+ Torontonians. Named after a group of lbians who fought for regnn the ’70s femist movement, Lavenr Menace isn’t the typil Village gay bar. Cute spots around the cy that are queer-owned, queer-n or jt queer are barely any gay bars left Toronto.

If you’re lookg for a date spot, a place to hear a DJ / selector play rerds (one of our fav HotGayDaddy who many of y’all might remember om the Eagle sps here) and old movi on the screens, then Farsi is a super queer-iendly spot you might feel at home ’s BistroMandy Goodhandy, the legend, has opened up her very own pub on the Danforth. The recent queer mic showse starrg our boo’s Cerena, Myst Milano, Quarterback and HIU is a very promisg night of GAY thgs to keep g.

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Mama’s isn’t queer owned, but they host a great karaoke night, burlque, drag shows and Gaydaze.

Like, if we were new kids to the cy, or olr queers gog to this place for the first time, our gay hearts would melt and we would be back over and over aga. We spoke Veroni (one of the partners) real quick onle and they told “we have ma a pot to specifilly say we are a queer iendly sports bar bee we believe many venu of this nature often do not create a safe space for all ntue, “We also unrstand that wh one of our owners beg a cis whe male, we are not willg to take up a space we don’t belong by llg ourselv a ‘queer/gay sports bar’. The top bars on Church Street clu some of the Gay Village's historic hotspots along wh more recent addns.

This inic gay bar has been the beatg heart of the Village sce 1989. Toronto has been scribed as one of the most gay-iendly plac the world. Wh two signated gay villag, a world famo pri ftival (which is a month-long this year), and a multi-cultural mosaic of rints our cy is a LGBT hotspot.

TORONTO GAY DISTRICT: THE VILLAGE

Whether your lbian, bisexual, gay, straight, pansexual, 2 spired, transgenred, queer or anythg between, there is a place for you. Que possibly the biggt and bt gay venue the cy, Fly 2. Woody’s and Sailors are two of Toronto’s premiere gay bars loted the heart of the Church and Wellley village.

Actg as one tablishment which featur 4 bars, a dance floor, drag shows, and their famed “bt ass” ntts on Saturday Nights, Woody’s and Sailors are your go to gay bar for rriere voyrism and endls pchers of cred- Donna Bra. Crews and Tango’s is most often the bar you went to on that one wild night where you and your iends cid to check out the gayborhood, and rightfully so.

If you love Brney Spears, Cher, Madonna, Lady Gaga, or any other gay in, Crews is the place for you… chanc are they’ll be blastg their hs all night long, and you’ll sweat… a cred- Buddi In Bad Tim. Occupyg Toronto’s premiere Gay and Lbian theatre lled Buddi Bad Tim, “Buddi” transforms to one of the villag bt distheque’s every Saturday night.

Que possibly the most pete bar on the list, The Beaver attracts the eclectic Queer Wt muny and gays/lbians alike and squeez them to a space so nfed, you n’t help but perpetually be grdg on someone for the majory of your night. After years of stg abandoned on Church Street, the buildg that once hoed one of Toronto's most inic gay nightclubs uld soon transform to somethg far ls excg: the base of a ndo.

Known as the "grandaddy" of Toronto's gay bar scene, The Barn rose to promence the 1980s, beg one of the cy's bt known hubs for the gay muny until the murr, still unsolved, of s owner Janko Naglic  2004. That mural was the succsor of The Barn's gay wboy mural, a Molson Canadian classic. The herage buildg was home to the inic gay nightclub The Barn for s.

Fzrovia's proposal acknowledg the Village as "the LGBTQ2S centre of the cy", along wh The Barn's impact on Toronto's gay history. Intensifitn Toronto's gay village has sparked fears around the erasure and mercializatn.

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