Eleven amazg photographs that tell the gay history of Toronto

history of toronto gay village

Wele to the Gay Village. (Photos urty of Mchel Raphael)Toronto’s queer village, known simply as The Village or by s famo tersectn, Church & Wellley, has been a longtime source for LGBT nightlife. Pillars of the muny, those who guard the doors to bchery and pour the drk...

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ELEVEN AMAZG PHOTOGRAPHS THAT TELL THE GAY HISTORY OF TORONTO

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).

*BEAR-MAGAZINE.COM* HISTORY OF TORONTO GAY VILLAGE

How Toronto's Gay Village Has Evolved Through The Years.

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