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Travel guide by Benjamin Starr, a travel writer who claims the entire world as his home. When he's not at home, he can sometimes be found at a residence in Dallas, Texas.
Toronto is a city of extremes. It’s the largest city in Canada. It’s got the tallest building in the world. It’s about to unseat Hollywood as the busiest film-making city in North America. (Queer as Folk was filmed here, and you’ll recognize spots all over town from it.) It’s the epicenter for the Canadian Anglophone Arts. (That a nice way to avoid stepping on Montreal’s toes, meaning non-French or non-Quebec arts.) Tourists often remark that Toronto feels a lot like Chicago, except that it’s clean and efficient. Hey, this is Canada we’re talking about! They manage to keep their largest city sparkling, safe, and easy to navigate. The subway system, nicknamed “The Rocket,” gets you quickly to sights like the CN Tower, the trademark of Toronto. It’s still the tallest building in the world (by a significant margin!) and features restaurants, several observation decks, and a massive shopping center.
Plenty of museums beckon, including the Ontario Science Center, the Art Gallery of Ontario, and the Royal Ontario Museum. The city’s acclaimed Toronto Zoo is always a busy spot. Ontario Place is a popular cultural, leisure, and entertainment park on manmade islands in Lake Ontario. Visitors are whisked back in time at Casa Loma, a drafty castle complete with secret passages, built in the early 1900s by Sir Henry Pellatt, the first man to build a hydroelectric plant at Niagara Falls. Oh! And how can we forget North America’s most famous waterfall?
Niagara Falls is only 80 miles distant, just around the corner of Lake Ontario. The gay scene in Toronto is called The Village, or Church Street. It’s strung out along Church and Yonge between Alexander and Wellesley, and the Wellesley subway stop offers the most convenient access.
Another district, called the Queer West Village, [ http://gaywest.905host.net/files/queerwestvillage.php ]has developed way out in the West Toronto suburbs. It’s not a strip of gay bars. It’s a network of communities where gays are completely and seamlessly integrated without having to isolate or group themselves in one district. Where no one bats an eye at smooching lovers in a park or café, and where every shop owner recognizes no differences because of sexual identity. You go out there to see what the future holds for gays everywhere
http://www.edirp.com/
Travel guide by Benjamin Starr, a travel writer who claims the entire world as his home. When he's not at home, he can sometimes be found at a residence in Dallas, Texas.
Toronto is a city of extremes. It’s the largest city in Canada. It’s got the tallest building in the world. It’s about to unseat Hollywood as the busiest film-making city in North America. (Queer as Folk was filmed here, and you’ll recognize spots all over town from it.) It’s the epicenter for the Canadian Anglophone Arts. (That a nice way to avoid stepping on Montreal’s toes, meaning non-French or non-Quebec arts.) Tourists often remark that Toronto feels a lot like Chicago, except that it’s clean and efficient. Hey, this is Canada we’re talking about! They manage to keep their largest city sparkling, safe, and easy to navigate. The subway system, nicknamed “The Rocket,” gets you quickly to sights like the CN Tower, the trademark of Toronto. It’s still the tallest building in the world (by a significant margin!) and features restaurants, several observation decks, and a massive shopping center.
Plenty of museums beckon, including the Ontario Science Center, the Art Gallery of Ontario, and the Royal Ontario Museum. The city’s acclaimed Toronto Zoo is always a busy spot. Ontario Place is a popular cultural, leisure, and entertainment park on manmade islands in Lake Ontario. Visitors are whisked back in time at Casa Loma, a drafty castle complete with secret passages, built in the early 1900s by Sir Henry Pellatt, the first man to build a hydroelectric plant at Niagara Falls. Oh! And how can we forget North America’s most famous waterfall?
Niagara Falls is only 80 miles distant, just around the corner of Lake Ontario. The gay scene in Toronto is called The Village, or Church Street. It’s strung out along Church and Yonge between Alexander and Wellesley, and the Wellesley subway stop offers the most convenient access.
Another district, called the Queer West Village, [ http://gaywest.905host.net/files/queerwestvillage.php ]has developed way out in the West Toronto suburbs. It’s not a strip of gay bars. It’s a network of communities where gays are completely and seamlessly integrated without having to isolate or group themselves in one district. Where no one bats an eye at smooching lovers in a park or café, and where every shop owner recognizes no differences because of sexual identity. You go out there to see what the future holds for gays everywhere
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