#lgbt toronto

[queergraffiti]

"Transsexuals 🇵🇸 for a 🏳️‍⚧️ Free Palestine!"

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

[tampire]

Lucas Lee, Todd Ingram and Matthew Patel + rocking the Scott Pilgrim shirt

[gaps-between-stories]

anyways, the future of hockey is queer

[inarqus]

inuyasha flash

[emmarosela]

NO BAD VIBES 🍒🍓💦💦💦💦

[elation0]

binaries are for computers

Fuck Your Gender

[wholesomequeershit]

I don’t have much reach on Tumblr so reblogs are hugely appreciated.

The Glad Day Bookshop in Toronto, Canada is in danger of eviction. Besides being the oldest (and non-profit!) queer bookshop in the world, they are also a coffee shop and events venue providing a much needed place for queers of every flavor to feel safe and supported. If you have the means to help, please do! If not, reblogs and sharing on other platforms are very very appreciated. Queer spaces worldwide are getting fewer. We have to try to save the ones we have.

-Juno

Copy paste of their instagram post text:

The Immediate Crisis -

Glad Day has reached a crisis point. Since the ‘end’ of the pandemic (and the end of COVID-19 subsidies) we have been struggling. We have been going into debt almost every month for the last 2 years. We have often been short on rent. Our landlord has been patient but if we are unable to provide him with a lump sum payment of $100,000 in July, we will be evicted. BUT if we can pay him $100,000, he has agreed to a small reduction in our rent for 1 year, which gives us time to consult with our communities, explore our options, and create the next version of Glad Day.

The Strategy -

We are hoping to raise $300,000 to give us at least one more stable year at our current location and provide the capacity needed to dream of and act on whatever Glad Day becomes next.

This fundraiser will help us prevent a crisis, stabilize us for a year and be a catalyst for rebirth.

We know that with intense inflation, funds are tight for many people and you may already be donating to other organizations. Any support you can provide, even if it is sharing this campaign with one other person, is deeply appreciated.

[ceevee5]

ceevee5 on tour - Seen at U of T, Toronto

[allthecanadianpolitics]

The soul singer who helped lay the groundwork for Toronto’s music scene has been memorialized outside of the former nightclub where she solidified her career in the ‘60s.

A Heritage Toronto plaque honouring the late Jackie Shane, a transgender musician originally from Nashville, Tenn. who called Toronto home, was unveiled Friday morning in a ceremony marking the start of Pride weekend in the city and officially proclaimed June 23 “Jackie Shane Day.”

“She was someone who made the incredibly, incredibly brave decision to show the world exactly who she was in a time when the world didn’t even have the right words to describe her presence,” Marci Ien, minister for women and gender equality and youth, said at the site of the former Sapphire Tavern at Victoria and Richmond streets.

Shane, who once shared stages with Jimi Hendrix, Etta James, and Little Richard, moved to Toronto in 1959. She landed a residency at the Sapphire and released her biggest hit in 1962, “Any Other Way.” [...]

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Tagging: @politicsofcanada, @vague-humanoid

[the-golden-dragoness]

For my queer Canadian (Torontonian) audience:

You should watch Stories from my Gay Grandparents on YouTube! It’s hilarious, emotional, joyful about a pair of grandparents coming out to their two adult gay grandkids. It’s only 10 episodes each about 11 minutes long, but it’s so good!

And if you’re not Canadian, still watch it anyway! It’s so good and I hope they can get another season.

[tampire]

I love the Canada's Drag Race Season 4 cast a normal amount <3

Edit: Happy Pride! Last Wednesday I went to Starry Night and met the Top 3 of Canada's Drag Race Aurora Denim and Venus as well as USA Drag Race Season 16 winner from Taiwan: Nymphia Wind! Glad we all color coordinated and I enjoyed meeting them a lot. They liked my last minute put together outfit and I definitely vote yellow for sure.

[newsfromstolenland]

"A group representing women affected by an infamous bathhouse raid is questioning the appointment of Myron Demkiw as Toronto Police chief.

In an open letter, which was provided to the Star, members of the Toronto Women’s Bathhouse committee, who were subjected to the raid of the popular Pussy Palace event for queer women and trans people at a rented bathhouse on Mutual St. in 2000, say they oppose Demkiw’s promotion because of his involvement in the operation.

“In your two year hiring process, the communities you consulted told you that they have significant concerns about police accountability,” the letter sent Tuesday to Mayor John Tory and Toronto Police Services Board chair Jim Hart. “What message does the appointment of an officer who has been directly involved in a breach of civil liberties send to those communities?”

Demkiw was then a member of the service’s now disbanded vice squad when he and four other male officers carried out a raid that an Ontario judge would later call a “flagrant” violation of charter rights.

The ticketed and licensed Pussy Palace events were intended to be a sex-positive, safe space for members of the LGBTQ2S+ community to meet, drink and play.

“With the appointment of Mr. Demkiw, Mayor John Tory and the TPS board have shown that they have little interest in meaningful action on the concerns raised by historically oppressed communities regarding unchecked police power,” the letter says.

The chief position is selected by the Toronto Police Services Board, of which Tory has been a member since he was first elected in 2014."

Full article

Tagging: @allthecanadianpolitics

[thecanadianweeb]

Throwback to when i saw this gem of a meme in my dream.

it actually has some truth to it.

[transmasc-joan-of-arc]

James Fraser in a Canadian Gay Archives t-shirt at Toronto Pride in 1983. Photograph by Alan V. Miller

[civ5crab]

Bombardier Bilevel is a Canadian Bi Icon.

[dragkingsrule]

Krēme Inakuchi, Toronto-based drag king

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