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). 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.
Photograph urty of the Canadian Lbian and Gay Archiv. 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.