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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
Pri isn’t over after June 30 — celebrate your urage year-round at the most fabulo gay bars Toronto. * toronto gay softball *
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. Photograph urty of the Canadian Lbian and Gay Archiv.
“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.
FOR LGBTQ ATHLET, THE GAY GAM ARE AS CCIAL NOW AS WHEN THEY WERE FOUND
Jacksonville Jaguars associate strength ach Kev Maxen has e out as gay. His announcement is a first for a male ach a major U.S.-based profsnal league. * toronto gay softball *
Photograph urty of the Canadian Lbian and Gay Archiv.
12 OF THE HOTTT GAY BARS TORONTO FOR STEAMY NIGHTS
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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.
JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH KEV MAXEN OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU
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First Gay Pri March. In 1969, homosexualy had been crimalized Canada. And 1971, Canada’s first gay liberatn newsmagaze, The Body Polic, began publishg.
WELE TO TORONTO GAY FOOTBALL LEAGUE
But there was still much to march agast 1972—for stance, homosexualy was still nsired legal grounds for rejectg immigrants.
GAY SOFTBALL WORLD SERI TO RETURN TO MNEAPOLIS 2022
“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.
SOCHI: RSIAN ACTIVISTS READY GAY-IENDLY GAM
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. Nomatns Open for 2024 CommissnGay World Seri TeWESA 2023 Softball ClicsGSWS Sign Up2023 Game Schle (11" x 17")WESA Events Schle 2023WESA Pageant Charable FundaiserWESA 2023 Ice Breaker Game Schle.
Open this photo gallery:Sean Fzgerald, -print of the Feratn of Gay Gam, wav a Progrs Pri flag as he stands on Send Beach along the Stanley Park seawall, Vanuver on June 5. Fzgerald pet water polo and swimmg at the Gay Isomura/The Globe and MailCathere Mea learned about the Gay Gam when she saw a small ad for the event a newsletter at a women’s bookstore Edmonton, vg registratns to the 1990 edn Vanuver, the first hosted outsi the U.
THE VOICE OF CHICAGO'S GAY, LESBIAN, BI, TRANS AND QUEER COMMUNITY SINCE 1985
HandoutThe Gay Gam were nceived more than 40 years ago by Tom Wadll, an Amerin physician and Olympic thlete, to empower LGBTQ athlet and artists through sport, culture and fellowship. Durg the event, 1, 350 athlet om 12 untri participated 17 year, the Gay Gam – held every four years – are back for the first time sce before the panmic. From the 2022 World Cup, where the illegaly of homosexualy Qatar ma headl, to profsnal athlet clg to wear Pri jerseys, sport today n still feel unwelg for many LGBTQ people.
) The Gay Gam wel anyone over 18, no matter their genr, athletic abily or sexual orientatn.
Sports have different tegori for the var registrants, to strive for fair the 2018 Gay Gam Paris, 288 Canadians participated, among more than 10, 000 who took part om 91 untri 36 sports and 14 cultural events.