Gay Softball World Seri to return to Mneapolis 2022

Contents:

• ELEVEN AMAZG PHOTOGRAPHS THAT TELL THE GAY HISTORY OF TORONTO
• FOR LGBTQ ATHLET, THE GAY GAM ARE AS CCIAL NOW AS WHEN THEY WERE FOUND
• 12 OF THE HOTTT GAY BARS TORONTO FOR STEAMY NIGHTS
• JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH KEV MAXEN OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU
• WELE TO TORONTO GAY FOOTBALL LEAGUE
• GAY SOFTBALL WORLD SERI TO RETURN TO MNEAPOLIS 2022
• SOCHI: RSIAN ACTIVISTS READY GAY-IENDLY GAM
• THE VOICE OF CHICAGO'S GAY, LESBIAN, BI, TRANS AND QUEER COMMUNITY SINCE 1985

ELEVEN AMAZG PHOTOGRAPHS THAT TELL THE GAY HISTORY OF TORONTO

Popularized to be known as the Toronto Gay Village, this queer neighbourhood is clive, safe and welg for all. This map of “Gay Toronto” origally appeared The Body Polic, a monthly gay magaze published om 1971 to 1987.

FOR LGBTQ ATHLET, THE GAY GAM ARE AS CCIAL NOW AS WHEN THEY WERE FOUND

Photograph urty of the Canadian Lbian and Gay Archiv.

12 OF THE HOTTT GAY BARS TORONTO FOR STEAMY NIGHTS

“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).

JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH KEV MAXEN OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU

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.

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.

WELE TO TORONTO GAY FOOTBALL LEAGUE

First Gay Pri March.

In 1969, homosexualy had been crimalized Canada.

GAY SOFTBALL WORLD SERI TO RETURN TO MNEAPOLIS 2022

And 1971, Canada’s first gay liberatn newsmagaze, The Body Polic, began publishg.

SOCHI: RSIAN ACTIVISTS READY GAY-IENDLY GAM

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.

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.

THE VOICE OF CHICAGO'S GAY, LESBIAN, BI, TRANS AND QUEER COMMUNITY SINCE 1985

Toronto has sce hosted several queer sportg events, cludg the 2000 Gay Softball World Seri. 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. “They went face-to-face wh not jt homophobia and misogyny, but vlence.