What's on: in Queer West Toronto
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The Bent Expressions eNewspaper since 1996 A Social Enterprise of QueerWest.org (Formerly The Inside Story). Your complete resource guide to Queer West Village, Toronto ON: Accommodation, Businesses, and Restaurants, Bars and Night Clubs. Gaybourhoods (Street Map ) We cover: Music - Art - Films - Theatre - Politics - Community Events. We tear up Queer Toronto, finding cool stuff, we think you'll enjoy. Click around and have some fun! Copyrighted 2010. All Rights Reserved. Masthead Listings Editor bentexpressions@gmail.com Try Our Free 2x monthly Bent eBlast Hey! Get Social join us on Twitter or Facebook WEEKLY & MONTHLY LISTINGS - SHOTGUN REVIEWS - HOT PARTIES, HOT SHOWS and HOT SPOTS IN QUEER TORONTO See Also | Films, Festivals and Art | Theatre Events | Weekly & Monthly Events | Queer West Bent Events | Gay West Bicycle Club Events | What's in Queer Toronto Today? 
CLUB SCENE Monthly events3rd Thursday of each month until May 20, 2010 Story & Song Night @ Naco Gallery and Cafe , John Russon and Naco Café host “Story and Song Night.” Each month, a speaker will tell a powerful story that has been moving and important for her or his own life. The stories will be drawn from the world’s great religion traditions, but this is not a religious event. Instead, it is an opportunity to listen to storytellers telling some of the greatest stories ever told! After the story there will be opportunity to friendly and constructive discussion, followed by set of music. 8 pm to 11 pm 1665 Dundas St. West www.nacogallery.com First Friday of the Month for Speak Easy - Somebody is finally Queering up the Junction - Margaret's On Dundas. Saturday Rotating Starlett's Brit pop, DJ WMD spinning his own brand of rap/metal/slow jams, City on Fire's vintage electro etc., SUN - DJ Miss Lonely Hearts Radio with his all vinyl nostalgia, TUES - Movie Night WED - Wu Tang! THURS - Lock3 down mash-ups, FRI - DJ Josh spins it all. Bring it on for some good ol' fashioned dancin, minglin, and drinkin with your neighbourhood queers, queers from the north, south, and east, and all of our friends and allies. As always, no cover for you my pretties. MARGRET, 2952 Dundas St West (Dundas and Pacific Ave.). 416-762-3373 Hours: 8pm-2am daily Owner, Chris Brown, a 37-year-old music producer and co-owner Jill Rooksby No Cover. No Attitude. Dress to Dance. Queer West Toronto, Ontario www.margretondundas.com and review http://www.blogto.com/bars/margret and www.firstfridayevents.org Second Friday of every Month - DJ at Baby Huey for F*CK OFF AND DANCE....Disco, Pop, and all kinds of fun danceable tunes. $4.50 bottles of 50. Baby Huey's 70 Ossington, Avenue just above Queen St. West. 416-461-2251 Email: sneville79@yahoo.ca Queer West Village, Toronto Ontario ~ Don Q. Third Friday of every month - HUEVOS @ Naco Gallery and Cafe. ...a new monthly queer latin dance party Mixing good people, great music and just politiks.DJ No lo ves & DJ Viviana la Cumbiambera will spin enough salsa, cumbia, R&B, Hip Hop & top 40 to sweat the rhythm out of you. No Lo Ves aka Alvaro Giron is a Colombian-born, Toronto based visual artista and DJ that digs deep into the crates to drop the finest in Latin Funk, Salsa, Cumbia and House. No Lo Ves has played regularly at Not My Dog and Tinto and is the Latino community’s choice selector for all the hot parties. DOORS OPEN at 9pm $5 suggested donation or pay what you can (no one turned away) Proceeds go to support human rights and democracy for brothers and sisters in Honduras via Rights Action. Tell your friends. We hope to see you there! NACO Gallery Cafe 1665 Dundas Street West 647-437-6499 Email: nacogallerycafe@gmail.com First Saturday of every month - Love Saves the Day @ The Beaver with DJ's Will Munro, Jaime Sin and various guest each month. Munro is trying to capture the British heat of Horse Meat Disco (HMD), billed as the "queer party for everyone: homos and heteros, club kids, bears, fashionistas, naturists, guerilla drag queens and ladies who munch." Love Saves the Day No Cover 11 pm 1192 Queen St. W. 416.537.2768. Queer West, Toronto Ontario. www.myspace.com/torontobeaver Queer West Village, Toronto Ontario. First Saturday of every Month - Goin' Steady @ The Boat. How's this for something different? A 1950s-themed party of doo-wop, rock and roll, early R&B and juke joint jazz in a restaurant styled to look like the inside of a boat, thrown by a bunch of young indie kids. Goin' Steady is a charming little party that gets a pretty good turnout considering the absurd concept. There was lots of dancing by the time its filled up, and some people even got dressed up in vintage costumes for the occasion. The Boat (158 Augusta) Kensington Market, west of Spadina, north of Dundas More info: www.myspace.com/goinsteady Queer West Village, Toronto Ontario. Second Saturday of every month. 5 Pin Rainbowlers Club@ Danforth Bowling Alley - A bowling club for gay and bisexual men over 40 and their admirers, bowling since 2002. No experience necessary, from 3 pm to about 5 pm at Danforth Bowl Toronto. A two minute walk from Coxwell ave subway stop. Out of town visitors welcome to join in the fun. Seniors are encouraged to attend these activities. We have a special discount for those over 55 years of age. We presently have 12 bowlers in our club. This a fun group. The cost is under $10.00 per person includes lane, shoes and two games. Email: rainbowlers@yahoo.ca or Contact Al at 416-244-3077 Second Saturday of every month - Sinthetic Saturday @ The Reverb. I'm a sexy, in your face event, seducing the Queen Street elite at the Reverb every 2nd Saturday of each month!!! BE THERE! Starting April 12th heavy partying, night long dancing, sinthetic deviants, feisty fashionistas, sexy subs, delicious doms, latex, leather, pvc, uv, and anyone who likes to party! spun by DJ Osaze Second to Last Saturday - Cherry Bomb @ Andy Poolhall You've Voted us best Queer Womens party TWO years in a row..You've Come out to support with over 600 of your friends every month for TWO years now WITH RESIDENT DJs DENISE BENSON + COZMIC CAT playing what we love. Our CHERRY BOMB formula is simple: throw a sexy, sweaty and affordable party with a fun, flirty atmosphere, welcome all queers and friends, and drop a huge mix of dancefloor damage all mixed, mashed and played with love. Lather, rinse, repeat. ANDYS has opened their new patio and its huge! Come have a drink under the stars with your fav hottie :) Price: $6 cover . free before 10pm . 9pm – 3am Andy Poolhall 489 College St. Website: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=103048982779 | www.denisebenson.com | www.myspace.com/cherrybombtoronto | Queer West Village, Toronto Ontario.  Last Wednesday every Month - ShOUT Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Transsexual, Intersexed, Queer, Questioning and Two-Spirited (LGBTTIQQ2) youth Program & Public Forum @ Masaryk-Cowan Community Centre (Parkdale). Following in the footsteps of our award winning Java Knights Public Forum which ran for three years between January 2006 to April 2009 at the Gladstone Artbar We have moved into the future of queer public forums and programming. Shout has a completely new concept, that queer television audiences and forum attendees will be excited about. ShOUT - A Youth by Youth Initiative (18 to 27) All welcome, no one will be turned away. ShOUT! Queer West Youth and Young Adult Program will benefit the growing population of young LGBTTIQQ2 identified people and their friends and allies in a number of West-Central Toronto neighborhoods including Etobicoke, College St. West (Little Italy/Palmerston), Dundas St. West (Brockton, Little Portugal, Kensington Market) and Queer St. West (Roncesvalles, Parkdale, Trinity-Bellwods). Gay West Community Network Inc (Queer West) will hold a series of live monthly community events to stimulate a needed open dialogue amongst west end LGBTTIQQS2 Youth and Young Adults, their friends and allies.
Some months may be Special Events: field trips, workshops at i.e., Toronto Island, Craft making, Collaborative art projects, Photo Exhibitions, A Community fair, Musical performances. (More time will be available for these projects, two to four hours, since we may not be at the Centre.) The Details: Runs from 6: 30 pm to 8:30 pm at the Masaryk-Cowan
Community Centre, 220 Cowan Avenue (Toronto Parkdale) last Wednesday of every
month. Families welcome too. Join the Beehive Volunteer Arts Collective qwshout@gmail.com
(Jaclyn Isen, Program Manager and Queer West Vice President) Homepage: ShOUT!
Queer West Youth and Young Adult Program CLUB SCENE WEEKLY events
Every Sunday - Dance Party by Girls for Girls @ Bovine Sex Club. Pink Mafia launches Thunderpussy, a new weekly with resident DJs Hollyrock and Le Freak C’est Keek . Launch features DJ Shoot.Speed.Kill (Tabloid/Sport Pig) and a special all-female Sunday night staff, lead by bartender and promoter Chloe Van Len. Bovine Sex Club, 542 Queen Street West (416) 504-4239, No cover. 10pm doors. bovineclub.com | there's more Lesbian events in the Gay Toronto's Queer West, than anywhere else in the city. Every Sunday - with DJ Craig Dominic @ Baby Huey Hey all, just another reminder that this is the official launch weekend of my new night at Baby Huey\'s 70 Ossington, Avenue just above Queen West. It's a retro night spliced with some newer and even older tunes to cap off your weekend. Come and check it out, grab a Caesar with it and either chill or dance til you can\'t dance anymore! Starting at 10 pm. p.s. check out the new mixes on the blog..I\'ve done about 4 this month alone. craigdominic.blogspot.com Great little bar, friendly staff, including that cute hunk Steve Neville, behind the counter~ Don Q editor., Queer West Village, Toronto Ontario. Every Monday - DJ Shannon at Manic Mondays @ Dance Cave.Shannon spins disco, old school, Goth, industrial, punk, ska $2.75 drinks before 4 midnight are the perfect start to your work week. An alternative for the already alternative queer. 10pm. The Dance Cave (Lee's Palace), 529 Bloor St. W. at Bathurst No cover. www.djshannon.com 416-532-1598 | Queer West Village, Toronto Ontario. Every Monday - Ah Shucks! Its RHINESTONE Night Country night! replacing Miserable Monday's @ The Beaver. Featuring DJ's May and Shane (foxhole) + guests Door 10 pm. 1192 Queen St. W. near Dufferin No cover. 416.537.2768. Queer West Village, Toronto Ontario. The Beaver Cafe, 1192 Queen St. W. www.thebeavertoronto.com Every Tuesday - . Queer Karaoke with Richie Rich @ Baby Huey10pm-2am 3.50 shots of jager. Hope you can drop by. :) Baby Huey's 70 Ossington, Avenue just above Queen St. West. 416-461-2251 Email: sneville79@yahoo.ca Queer West Village, Toronto Ontario ~ Don Q. Every Tuesday - Crag Crux Climbers @ Joe Rockheads. Providing queer fun, rock-climbing with 22,000 square of indoor walls. Meets every Tuesday 7:30 pm at Joe Rockhead's at 29 Fraser Avenue (south of King just east of Dufferin). The group also meets outdoors at Milton area, the Collingwood area, and at Lion’s Head on the Bruce Peninsula. At Easter and Thanksgiving, there’s generally a trip down to the Red River Gorge in Kentucky. All levels welcome; all you need to know is how to belay using a gri-gri and how to tie a figure-eight knot. No club fees: see www.joerockheads.com for gym fees. Every Wednesday - Night Latin Jazz Jams Series with Sean Bellaviti! @ Lula Lounge Featuring Luisito Orbegoso, Max Senitt, Alexander Brown, Paco Luviano & guests Every Wednesday at 10pm, pianist Sean Bellaviti hosts a salsa/latin jazz jam featuring Luisito Orbegoso, Max Senitt, Alexander Brown and Paco Luviano. The event is open to any and all musicians interested in playing Latin music in all of its various guises. The jam starts at 10 pm and continues for the rest of the night. There is no cover, however, a small donation is encouraged. 1585 Dundas St. W., west of Dufferin 416 588 0307 info@lula.ca www.lulalounge.ca Every Wednesday - In(Side) The Veins Poetry open mic and workshop. Wednesdays 8-9:30 pm. Free. Culturshoc, 1205 Queen W. 416-588-7462. Every Wednesday evening at Mitzis Sister (1554 Queen St. West, Parkdale) their is an open mic. The current host is Jack Breakfast. This is a great opportunity for amateurs and pros to work out their shit. Sign up between 8:30 PM and 9:00 PM if you want to perform. Queer West Village, Toronto Ontario. Every Wednesday - The Raq n Wag where queer hip non-scenesters gather for DJ F*ckers. Resident DJs Adam Addison and Fawn Big Canoe define the Queer West Village beat with their soulful bass-heavy beats. 10pm. 739 Queen St. W. at Tecumseth St. Cover $5.Trinity Bellwoods, Queer West, Toronto Ontario. Every Wednesday -- Central Spa’s (Bathhouse) "Wild Wednesdays." All shapes and sizes are welcome to enjoy the wet/dry saunas and video lounges. With cheap lockers and even cheaper rooms all day long, you can afford to drop the soap. 11am-2am. 1610 Dundas West at Brock, two blocks past Dufferin, north corner. $5 lockers, $10 Rooms. www.centralspa.ca 416.588.6191. | Queer West Village, Toronto Ontario. Every Wednesday - Rainbow Voices of Toronto @ St Luke's United Church. Rainbow Voices of Toronto is a non auditioned. Mixed, community chorus dedicated to building bridges between the diverse LGBTT and S communities through music. We sing everything from Broadway to Bach and everything in between and our members come from across the GTA, Peel and York region. Membership fees cover expenses such as music and rehearsal space, but no-one is turned away who is financially challenged, and there are no auditions! For more information call 416-925 XTRA ext. 2166 and leave a message, email info@rainbowvoicesoftoronto.com or check out our website to see what we have been up to at www.rainbowvoicesoftoronto.com. Our rehearsals are Wednesdays, 6:45 pm to 9:15pm at St Luke's United Church, SE corner of Sherbourne at Carlton, (side door down the back to the parlour)  Every Thursday - 4 pm to 6 pm - Teenage Pride Connection @ Newcomer Youth Centre. A safe, supportive and confidential space for for all newcomer youth between the ages of 14-24 regardless of status. Who identify themselves as part of the LGBTTI2Q community (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transsexual, Transgender, Intersex, 2 Spirit, Questioning or Queer,) where they can build a community, share ideas & questions and have fun. This is an ongoing peer group. Culturelink settlement agency for new Canadians, CultureLink is a not-for-profit community-based organization that facilitates the settlement of newcomers to Toronto, Canada. This is done through programs, which promote self-sufficiency, positive interaction and understanding between the Host and Newcomer communities, and the overall well being of all participants. CultureLink recognizes the special needs of refugees, is committed to equity and opposes discrimination of any kind. Thursdays 4-6 pm at Newcomer Youth Centre, 2340 Dundas Street West (The Crossway Mall Bloor & Dundas eastside) , Suite 301 Contact Carolina Avila • NYC Youth Worker for any questions. Phone: 416-588-6288, ext 221.www.culturelink.net Queer West, Toronto Ontario Every Saturday Shake a Tail @ Clinton's Tavern Queer West Toronto's loudest 60's dance party! This is the dance where you may shimmy, shake, jump, wag, howl, and sing, but you WON’T stand still! It's always a little odd to see a room of 20-somethings going nuts for music recorded 40 years ago, but the dance floor is full and the queer kids are coming out, so they must be doing something right. The sound is somewhat like some mod parties, but it's less Britcentric and more open musically. You can hear old R&B, psych rock, soul and pop throughout the evening, and there's a pretty good balance between "golden oldies" hits and dusty obscurities.Clinton's Tavern, 693 Bloor Street West, Phone: (416) 535-9541 Doors at 10pm. $5.00 Cover www.myspace.com/shakeatail | Queer West Village Toronto, Ontario. |
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