A Comprehensive Gay Gui to Ottawa, Ontar

Contents:

• A COMPREHENSIVE GAY GUI TO OTTAWA, ONTAR
• GAY OTTAWA
• MOVG TO LGBT OTTAWA, ONTAR? HOW TO FD YOUR PERFECT GAY NEIGHBORHOOD!
• OTTAWA TRODUC FIRST 'GAY VILLAGE'
• OTTAWA’S LE/THE VILLAGE: CREATG A GAYBOURHOOD AMIDST THE ‘ATH OF THE VILLAGE’
• T'S PUBOTTAWAMENUHOTELS · LUXURYHOTELS · MID-RANGEBARSDANCE CLUBSSNASGAY MAPT'S PUB
• OTTAWA GAY BARS

A COMPREHENSIVE GAY GUI TO OTTAWA, ONTAR

The roughly six-block span of Bank Street (and to a lser extent O'Connor Street) between Somerset and Gladstone mak up the heart of this GLBT hub, which has jt one gay bar but several shops, rtrants, and f wh strong muny ti. Plenty of lols assert that "Gay Village" is somethg of a misnomer given how eclectic the aforementned Bank Street area is, and also takg to nsiratn how geographilly diffe the cy's GLBT muny is.

GAY OTTAWA

A short drive wt of downtown, Wtboro Village has a handful of very good rtrants, cludg a uple of gay fav: Canvas Retso-Bar, which has a cute pat out ont and a zy dg room where you might try foie gras wh warm pear and pen salad, thyme-roasted Cornish hen, polenta and prawns, and other treats sourced mostly wh lol and anic gredients; and Foolish Chicken, a quirky and laid-back spot si a vaguely chalet-spired hoe servg barbecue chicken and ribs, pulled pork sandwich, and richly creamy cheek.

MOVG TO LGBT OTTAWA, ONTAR? HOW TO FD YOUR PERFECT GAY NEIGHBORHOOD!

Ottawa may not have a huge number of gay bars, but the on you'll fd here are fun, iendly, and great neighborhoods - close to downtown (and the cy's bt hotels), and also wh an easy stroll of many good rtrants. Lols are hopg to turn Bank Street to an official gay village, like siar gayborhoods Toronto and Montreal, and The Village signs wh rabows mark signifint rners on Bank om Nepean to Jam Streets, but there are some other important clubs jt off Bank on Somerset, and as far up as Sparks and Queen Streets towards the river.

CLOSED: Centretown Pub (340 Somerset St W), mostly guys piano lounge/bar, terrace, karaoke/bands, cisg/dancg, drag/ leathernights; Edge Club (212 Sparks St), gay nightclub, drag/baret shows and ntts, roof-top pat. Stonewall Wil's (370 Bank St), upstairs gay bookstore, art, jewellery, and artisan cholat, events clu we socials and book readgs; downstairs lub, toys, greetg rds, DVD vios, and knick-knacks.

OTTAWA TRODUC FIRST 'GAY VILLAGE'

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OTTAWA’S LE/THE VILLAGE: CREATG A GAYBOURHOOD AMIDST THE ‘ATH OF THE VILLAGE’

The center of this LGBTQ+ hub is the six-block stretch of Bank Street around Somerset and Gladstone, which clus only one gay club and several bs, f, rtrants, and f wh signifint muny ti. The by and trendy Byward Market neighborhood, on the northeast si of the cy center, right over the Ri Canal near Parliament Hill, has a nsirable gay prence, regard to nightlife and cuise. They envisn a untry, and eventually, a world, ee of biphobia, homophobia, transphobia, and other typ of opprsn, where everyone n reach their full potential whout fear of prejudice or bias.

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While there is plenty of idyllic mi-gods shakg their perfect body well to the night the gay clubs what we love most about the Ottawa LGBT scene is the foc on cln and the full spectm of the rabow muny. Everyone serv a gratifyg, strs-ee home buyg or sellg experience while beg sufficiently reprented, and this is why we feel you should engage a gay realtor to help you fdg your perfect future home. Rather than jt beg ncerned wh how btlg, fashnable, or up-and-g a neighborhood is (or what may appear like), gay realtors perform extensive rearch to the neighborhoods which they sell hom to ensure that clients are safe.

Thankfully, you no longer have to search for a realtor whout knowg whether or not they are acceptg of others bee you n e a list of gay, lbian, and gay-iendly agents Ottawa to do all of your homework for you.

Simply go to the page, and you’ll be prented wh a ee list of gay, lbian, and gay-iendly agents who n help you wh your relotn as well as other eful rmatn like LGBT+iendly schools, shoppg, storage firms, trasmen, and more. The Village is a gay, lbian, bisexual, trans-iendly area Ottawa’s downtown re, verg a six by two block area surroundg Bank Street—om Nepean to Jam Streets (north to south) and Kent and O’Connor Streets (wt to east). This area is the home of over 20 bs and servic that directly serve the GLBT muny, many of which are gay-owned and -operated, wh another nearly 40 other lotns that proudly support and serve the Village and Ottawa’s GLBT muny.

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OttawaOttawa has s first official "Gay Village" after a downtown uncillor put the fal touch on a six-year has a 'Gay Village'A stretch of Bank Street Centretown Ottawa is now emed the cy's "Gay Village. "Ottawa has s first official "Gay Village" after a downtown uncillor put the fal touch on a six-year whe signs wh a rabow logo are now posted along Bank Street between Nepean and Jam Street Centretown wh the words "The Village. Diane Holm orred the signs, which were stalled late last week, after she nducted her own survey on the Crawford appld the cy after years of batg for followg through on the Gay Village signatn for Bank Street Centretown Ottawa.

"Lol groups look to rencile and move onCrawford's mtee has clashed wh the Bank Street Bs Improvement Area, which opposed the gay village BIA's executive director has spoken out agast the ia of a village. OttawaNew walkg tours let you take a stroll through some of Ottawa's LGBT muny's most important landmarks and signifint events, om the days when unrver police officers monored gay men hotel bars to the morn Pri Village Legacy Project fund by the Bank Street BIAThe rabow-loured crosswalk at the tersectn of Bank Street and Somerset Street beme permanent June 2016.

New walkg tours let you take a stroll through some of the muny's most important landmarks and signifint events, om the days when unrver police officers monored gay men hotel bars to the birth of the Pri movement Bank Street BIA's Village Legacy Project, lnched Tuday wh a new webse, lays out three different walkg tours through downtown Ottawa that highlight rinc, bars, muny rource centr and more signifint spots pivotal to LGBT history the bar at the Lord Elg hotel beme a gatherg spot for Ottawa's gay muny begng the 1950s. "A meetg happened at the home of Mrice Belanger and Michael Black, and they ved people cludg Charlie Hill and others to discs the formatn of an anizatn lled Gays of Ottawa, " said Crawford. Bars beme an important place for our muny to socialize, meet romantic/sexual partners and iends, and mobilize spac that were queer-iendly closed or changed polici to shun gays, such as the Honeyw bi Unn Statn or the Lord Elg, new plac opened specifilly for the LGBT muny, such as Shas and the list shows all the known gay bars the nearly 50 years of LGBT liberatn.

IntroductnOn November 4, 2011, six blocks of Ottawa, Canada’s, Bank Street were signated by Mayor Jim Watson and the municipal ernment as Le/The Village, the official gay village of the bilgual, mid-sized natnal pal (populatn 883, 391) stg roughly halfway between Toronto and Montreal. 1 Send, the signatn was temporally out of le wh the trajectori of well-known Canadian gay villag such as Church-Wellley (Toronto), and Le Village Gai (Montreal), which were signated as villag by the early 2000s and had roots gay liberatn movements of the 1970s (Nash, 2005, Nash, 2006, Podmore, 2001, Podmore, 2006). ’ The fdgs challenge an tablished disurse of gay village evolutn and an emergent disurse of gay village cle, both of which posn gay villag as sted for creasg relevance the face of mercializatn, gentrifitn, and advanc gay rights.

In ntrast, the recent drive toward gay village creatn Ottawa is rooted social, historil, and mographic particulari that have shaped an alternative disurse of ‘need’ for a gay village. As a populatn saturated wh a long history of ernment surveillance and regulatn, Ottawa’s gay muny has followed a somewhat anomalo trajectory, characterized more by agmentatn and visibily than terrorialisatn (Lewis, 2012a).

In the ntext of Ottawa and siar ci, claims that gay villag are unnecsary and unviable a post-gay era of gay rights and eedoms reprents a privileged, short-sighted, and metronormative pot of view (Brown, 2009, Brown, 2012). This study therefore seeks to challenge sentialist notns of gay villag, reame work on the lks between gay inty and gay villag, and add to the body of work on gay and queer liv smaller ci (Brown, 2008) first sectn of this article tails the emergent disurse of gay village cle, s lks to evolutnary narrativ of both gay villag and gay inty, and unterarguments drawn om ethnographic rearch that se perceptns of gay villag as ntgent upon where they are loted and the subjectivi of those who enunter them.

In sum, this se study begs to nsir alternate formatns and trajectori of gay villag, and how ‘new’ gay villag might challenge privilege rather than perpetuate villag have been central to sexualy and space rearch durg the past two s. Alternately referred to as ‘villag, ’ ‘ghettos, ’ and ‘gaybourhoods, ’ the urban llectns of gay and lbian rints, gay-oriented or gay-owned bs, muny spac, and events such as paras and protts, are plac where personal and llective gay inti are formed and polil stggl are leveraged (Castells and Murphy, 1982, Castells, 1983, Fort, 1995, Sibalis, 2004; Nash, 2005, Nash, 2006). In 2007, a New York Tim mentary observed that US gay villag were sted to bee passé: agg populatns were not stag lol bars and street parti, hog pric were too high to attract new gay rints, and onle workg had renred bricks-and-mortar muny venu unnecsary (Brown, 2007).

And sts a pretty penny to hang your hat Chelsea and Greenwich Village, New York’s origal gay enclav … Seattle, Hoton, Philalphia, Atlanta: they’ve all experienced a drop the number of gay people livg close to the re (Babe, 2008). Referencg earlier studi on ‘gay gentrifitn’ (Lria and Knopp, 1985, Knopp, 1990), the evolutn mol dit that gay villag are a means of extractg personal prof and llective gay visibily om peripheral areas need of revalizatn. Usg s om the Uned Kgdom, Colls (2004) argu that over time gay villag (1) occupy limal neighbourhoods where sexualy is ls regulated, (2) expand through enterpris foced on gay male social and recreatnal outlets, (3) experience a wing service-sector base, (4) assiate to the mastream mercial base of the cy, and eventually, (5) lose their viabily as specifilly gay the trajectory that Colls outl is more market-driven than culturally or historilly specific, the se studi employed (Soho London, as well as Canal Street Manchter and Kemptown Brighton) suggt a tac alignment of village evolutn wh a particular historil timele.

The emergence of marked gay spac peripheral neighborhoods, for example, followed the crimalizatn of homosexualy the late 1960s, and the brandg and marketg of gay villag rerced the property-led downtown revelopment schem that beme popular the 1980s and 1990s. Although the timele nnot be generalized to all ci wh gay villag—San Francis’s Castro and New York’s Wt Village, for example, were never peripheral neighbourhoods—the marketg and brandg of mega-villag like those London (Anrsson, 2009), Manchter (Bnie and Skeggs, 2004), Montreal (Podmore, 2001, Podmore, 2006) and Toronto (Nash, 2010), suggts that those villag are now posned for cle (Colls, 2004, p.