It's beyond belief why Toronto Gay Tourism Guild, aka Pronto Toronto, doesn't want travellers to know there's a hidden gem in the city. I think the study being done by Canadian Gay and Lesbian Chamber of Commerce, and the Ontario Gay and Lesbian Chamber of Commerce GLBT consumers travel habbits, is just jiggery-pokery to promote "only", the old gay village at Church and Wellesley..Don, Q, editor
Meanwhile in the real world, The Province of Quebec Gay Tourism, said in their March 2007 Newsletter "Recently rebounding from years of neglect, Queen Street West is now a thriving, trendy neighbourhood. So hip in fact, that it has been dubbed Queer West Village to mark the tolerance and openness shared by its residents.
Over the last 10 years, the neighbourhood has been revitalized with the arrival of bars, galeries and boutiques and is today widely considered as Toronto's second gay village.
The QWV - as the locals call it - is also home to "culture hotels", institutions not found elsewhere in the country. These hotels feature artist-designed hotel rooms, event venues, restaurants and exhibition spaces to showcase art!"
Source: www.outtravel.ca/newsletter/0703.html
Here's another kudo from Out Traveler (summer issue, Cool Canada 2007) a division of PlanetOut Publishing Inc., an American gay travel magazine which had this to say about "Gay Toronto."
These days the Gay West Village in Parkdale and "Queer Street West," as a section of Queen Street is now dubbed, Sizzle!
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