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RSS FeedsAs the queer community spreads out, can the gay village remain vital?
(The Star Religion)

 
 

25 june 2017 15:09:54

 
As the queer community spreads out, can the gay village remain vital?
(The Star Religion)
 


Every year, when Lucah Rosenberg-Lee goes to Toronto’s Church-Wellesley Village to celebrate LGBT pride, he wears a rainbow sticker on his chest that says “Trans.”And every year, like clockwork, a stranger asks him why he is impersonating a transgender man.The thing is, Rosenberg-Lee isn’t impersonating anybody. The 28-year-old Toronto man is transgender, a fact that some people, even pride revellers in the heart of the city’s gay village, find hard to believe.Why? Rosenberg-Lee’s best guess is that he “passes” easily. In other words, he doesn’t “look” transgender. He looks cisgender: like a person whose sex assigned at birth lines up with his gender identity. He also comes off as stereotypically heterosexual, leading some to believe that he’s a tourist at Pride, not a card-carrying member of the club.“Because I am a Black man,” he says, “people (in the gay village) sometimes think I am going to be homophobic or that I’m a voyeur looking at them. It’s tiring because I just want to fit in.”Instead, he stays away. Like many young LGBT Torontonians, Rosenberg-Lee lives and works in the west end, and he travels to the gay village very rarely, either to attend social events during Pride month in June, or to access transgender specific resources at the 519 community centre or the Sherbourne Health Centre. If these opportunities ceased to exist, he’s fairly certain he wouldn’t visit the village at all.This is the dissonant truth about Toronto’s gay village. For at least a decade, a lot of young queer life in Toronto has coalesced outside the village proper, in smaller bars along Queen St. W. and Dundas St. W., or in Kensington Market, Parkdale, and Leslieville.Even though Church St. between Wellesley and Carlton — a colourful strip of bars and clubs offering drag performances and trivia nights — still remains t ...


 
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