Gay bars in ontario
Gay nightlife in Toronto?
She doesn't need a car if she's staying in downtown Toronto. Her hotel is connected to the subway system and beside the Queen Streetcar. There are lots of interesting neighbourhoods, cafes, kind bars and shops within walking distance, a limited hop on the sound public transit system or a short cab travel (for convenience sake).
I can't provide any specific advice on the womxn loving womxn community in Toronto; she might want to view at the online newspapers www.xtra.ca (a biweekly magazine for the gay and lesbian community), as skillfully as the website www.pridetoronto.com (which, although if focuses on the annual event parade, also includes a visitors guide). There is also something called the Pink Pages, with listings. Interestingly, there's also a good page with lots of useful links on the U of T's webpage for faculty and relocations: http://www.library.utoronto.ca/facul...iversity.htm#b
The area around Chursh and Wellesley (about a 5 minute walk from the city) is the traditional dwelling of the gay group in Toronto; I'm not sure how much it has to offer for the lesbian community. A neighbourhood called Leslieville, branch
Queer Bars in Hamilton
From the late 1950s to mid 1990s, there was a thriving and growing number of same-sex attracted bars both in Hamilton and around Canada. In Toronto, for example, there was Saint Charles Tavern where Halloween drag balls took place (Salerno 2015), and, on Dundas and Elizabeth Streets, there was a lesbian, “women-only” exclude in the downstairs of The Continental House hotel (Romanska 2021). In Calgary, “Backlot” was opened in 1996 (and is still thriving) and, as described by CBC, is a “literal hole-in-the-wall” in the middle of Calgary’s Beltline neighbourhood (Easton 2023), and in the 1970s, Club 70 was Edmonton’s first official gay prevent situated in the basement of the Milla Pub (Connolly 2023). By the 1970s, 80s, and 90s, other kinds of meeting places were emerging for queer folks, fancy the lesbian-feminist bookstore/café, gay leather bars, and, eventually, commercialized, straight spaces or dance clubs. Emerging from what some saw as a “closeted” period for queer folks in pre-WWII North America, the bar was something electric, welcoming, or even life-changing.
In downtown Hamilton, according to Saira Peesker at CBC News, there were “several gay bars, including the
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A History of Lgbtq+ Bars in Toronto
Gay bars in Toronto as we know them didn’t really exist until the 1970s. Prior to that people were limited to public parks, washrooms, and “low-key” bars and clubs in which there was always the danger of existence found out. Places like The Continental, Letros Nile Room, and the St. Charles Tavern (with the slogan “meet me under the clock” – the clock which can still be seen during renovations on Yonge St.) offered spaces where gays and lesbians would meet in secret.
While many are familiar with the Stonewall Riot in the U.S., Toronto