A generatnal shift away om Montreal’s Gay Village and towards alternative Queer spac wh the cy’s LGBTQ+ muny has been tected.
Contents:
- MONTREAL GAY CY GUI: A CY OF FUN, FTIVALS, AND FRIENDLY NEIGHBORS
- REARCH FDS YOUNG LGBTQ+ MONTREALERS SHIFTG AWAY OM THE GAY VILLAGE
- GAY | MONTREAL GAZETTE
- THE BATE OVER '-GAYG' MONTREAL'S VILLAGE
- GAY PARTI AND EVENTS MONTREAL
- MONTREAL’S MOST FAMO LGBTQ NEIGHBORHOOD WANTS TO DROP ‘GAY’ OM S NAME
- MONTREAL GAY SNAS
MONTREAL GAY CY GUI: A CY OF FUN, FTIVALS, AND FRIENDLY NEIGHBORS
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REARCH FDS YOUNG LGBTQ+ MONTREALERS SHIFTG AWAY OM THE GAY VILLAGE
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” Ontar NDP Lear Mar Stil was walkg, alongsi London MPPs, cludg openly gay London North Centre MPP Terence Kernaghan. A generatnal shift away om Montreal’s Gay Village and towards alternative Queer spac wh the cy’s LGBTQ+ muny has been tected. Julie Podmore, an affiliate assistant profsor of geography, planng and environment at Conrdia Universy, has unvered this shift “Far Beyond the Gay Village: LGBTQ Urbanism and Generatn Montréal’s Mile End”.
GAY | MONTREAL GAZETTE
A group of lol merchants wants to drop the word "gay" om the Gay Village, argug will make the neighbourhood and s bs more clive. * montreal gay news *
Conducted 2013, Podmore’s rearch recently appeared a chapter she wrote for the book The Life and Afterlife of Gay Neighborhoods: Renaissance and Rurgence (eded by Alex Bterman and Daniel Baldw Hs). Prciple among the was the perceptn that the Village had bee a mercialized and homonormative space signed for whe cis gay men. Gentrifitn and velopg the Village as a tourist statn has phed out many queer elements and spac save for those dited to cis gay whe men.
Podmore add that homonormativy and mercializatn the Village were not always the norm. It was a gay space. “But the ‘90s, all over the wtern world we start to see gay villag start to diversify.
THE BATE OVER '-GAYG' MONTREAL'S VILLAGE
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“My generatn of queers was kd of a batn of trans, gays, and lbians that saw themselv as one muny a way, and the Village was their meetg place, ” she add. “At night, I am more likely to be intified as a gay man drag than as a trans woman, so that also mak me feel very unfortable.
“I spend a lot of time talkg to trans people, mostly aged between 20 and 35, and none of them feel reprented by the Gay Village” she said. “Worse, at night, I am more likely to be intified as a gay man drag than as a trans woman, so that also mak me feel very unfortable.
GAY PARTI AND EVENTS MONTREAL
"You might be ed to llg me 'the Gay Village.' But 2021, I would like that to change. Bee sexual and genr cln and diversy is very important to me." * montreal gay news *
Not bee we’re over LGBTQ+-phobia Quebec as some whe gay men will tell you, but bee I and other trans women n lead normal liv most of the cy. I don’t feel the Gay Village is a place where I am weled, or where I feel I belong. Efforts outled the manifto clu droppg the word “gay” om the Village’s official name, and iatg trag prams signed to te the employe bs the Village on clivy and anti-racist/anti-homophobic, biphobic and transphobic attus.
If there's nothg gay specific, if there's no reason for LGBTQ+ people to gather there, then the chanc of havg an inty as a queer space are not very likely.
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MONTREAL’S MOST FAMO LGBTQ NEIGHBORHOOD WANTS TO DROP ‘GAY’ OM S NAME
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MONTREAL GAY SNAS
(Jean-Cl Taliana/CBC)When he first arrived Montreal to study nursg, Kelly Zanth said the Gay Village's vibrant character moved him. "I saw lours and flags and amazg gayns that spired me, " he the neighbourhood that troduced him to Montreal nightlife might take on a new inty.
A group of lol merchants is mpaigng to change the Gay Village's name to "Montreal's Village" or jt "the Village, " a mon nickname for the neighbourhood jt east of social media posts published Wednday, the Montreal Village Bs Development Corporatn (SDC) ced the wispread e of the term 2SLGBTQ+ as one of the ma reasons behd the Millaire Laflr, a board member of the lol bs velopment group, says she wants the neighbourhood's name to reflect more members of margalized muni. (Chloë Ranaldi/CBC)Lee-Anne Millaire Laflr, who is on the board of the SDC, said removg the word "gay" wouldn't erase the neighbourhood's historic relatnship wh the muny. "We're not discrimatg agast anyone that associat themselv wh gay, " she said.