Montreal’s LGBTQ area wants to drop ‘gay’ om s name

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

Montreal's annual gay pri ftival is tly somethg that you won’t want to miss.

The Black and Blue Gay Ftival.

REARCH FDS YOUNG LGBTQ+ MONTREALERS SHIFTG AWAY OM THE GAY VILLAGE

The Black and Blue Gay Ftival is a highly popular 5-day event that tak place annually durg the Canadian Thanksgivg weekend October. Some ci have gayborhoods – but Montreal has a village. Y, ’s te – an entire gay village (one of the largt North Ameri!

GAY | MONTREAL GAZETTE

Complexe Sky is the largt gay club Canada and is one of the most popular gay bars Montreal. Bar Le Cocktail is Montreal’s most popular gay karaoke bar. Contact a Montreal gay realtor for a ee, no-obligatn nsultatn today!

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A generatnal shift away om Montreal’s Gay Village and towards alternative Queer spac wh the cy’s LGBTQ+ muny has been tected.

THE BATE OVER '-GAYG' MONTREAL'S VILLAGE

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”. 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.

GAY PARTI AND EVENTS MONTREAL

“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.

MONTREAL’S MOST FAMO LGBTQ NEIGHBORHOOD WANTS TO DROP ‘GAY’ OM S NAME

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.

MONTREAL GAY SNAS

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. The cy is home to one of the largt Gay Villag North Ameri, but queer nights and tablishments n also be found outsi the Village—a ttament to the cy’s all-embracg joie--vivre. Complexe SkyOne of the biggt gay clubs Canada, Complexe Sky boasts three floors of entertament topped by a popular summertime rooftop terrasse plete wh outdoor pool and jacuzzi.

Aigle Noir / Black EagleMontréal’s Black Eagle is lled Aigle Noir, an old-school neighbourhood gay bar the heart of the Village.