The Churchmouse and Firkin

Biff: 7th May 2006 - 18:14 GMT

It's my after work pub on Church Street...Great food also.

Tamara: 7th May 2006 - 19:02 GMT

Church and Wellesley is generally thought of the gay neighbourhood in the city. Kinda like to the Castro in San Fransisco. ... Lots to see and do. Very colourful and friendly... No I do not work for the BIA.

Biff: 7th May 2006 - 23:17 GMT

Tamara.
I think you just outed me...
Actually, this is the neighbourhood where I live and work. Very diverse, butt
friendly.
Biff

Tamara: 8th May 2006 - 00:08 GMT

Biff ~ I didn't mean to out anyone.. not my intention at all! I've lived on Church Street for more than 20 years, trust me when I say that Church and Wellesley is more than what the perception is. I make no assumptions on people's lifestyles and although I'm not gay/lesbian, I still love it here!

Church and Wellesley is not what it was 10 years ago, when sun bathing was a pick up sport in Cathraw Park. Infact most of neighbours are families with children, albeit with open minds and generous hearts.

Elicar: 8th May 2006 - 00:17 GMT

"##Church and Wellesley is a gay-oriented community located in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is roughly bounded by Gould Street to the south, Yonge Street to the west, Charles Street to the north, and Jarvis Street to the east, with the intersection of Church and Wellesley Streets at the centre of this area. The boundaries are not fixed, as some gay and lesbian oriented establishments can be found outside of this area.

A number of alternative names for Church and Wellesley exist in local vernacular, including the Gay Ghetto, the Village or the Gay Village, the Gaybourhood, Gay & Wellesley or Queens Park (a play on words with Queen's Park, the seat of Ontario's provincial government); however, many of these "nicknames" are generic to gay villages across North America, and are therefore not descriptive of Church and Wellesley specifically, but of gay villages in general. Some people refer to it simply as Church Street, since most of the gay-related establishments in the area are located on that street.##"

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_and_Wellesley

EvilGentleman: 8th May 2006 - 08:51 GMT

"Actually, this is the neighbourhood where I live and work. Very diverse, butt friendly."

Biff, this has to be the world's most perfect typo. If it was done on purpose, I have to commend you on your sense of humour. If it was an accident, then I apologise for mentioning it, but it was too much to resist. I make no assumptions about your orientation, since I have no clue in what context your "outed" remark was meant. Mind you, it matters not, since I do not judge people by their orientation, only by their personalities. From what I saw of the few gay people I have met, they seem to be the same as the rest of us: 75% decent people, and 25% shitheads.

Ironically, the rainbow flag shown in your pictures has also been flown from the community co-operative store in Coral Harbour, Nunavut. The manager was convinced that it was the flag of the co-op movement, despite the fact that a number of people were concerned that he may be misunderstood. Even funnier was the fact that he was a shameless womanizer who seemed to be quite homophobic and anti-gay. Wonder if he ever finally clued in?

Jamie: 8th May 2006 - 09:06 GMT

There are a great many colours in the rainbow of homosexual pride. Don't be afraid to let yours shine through

Biff: 8th May 2006 - 22:42 GMT

EvilGentleman,
It was originally a typo, however I left it in, sort of tongue in cheek...

EvilGentleman: 9th May 2006 - 08:54 GMT

Man, that one was a classic. Took me a while to stop laughing. Good job.

Grange: 10th May 2006 - 13:09 GMT

the city council last year flew the rainbow flag for gay pride week . Man you should have seen the gay haters come out of the wood work .The city wanted to include everyone when it votes to fly a flag when requested. It even made the national news . So anyways the religious zelots came outand the red necks, etc So then after that the orage men wanted to fly a flag , well that got other people upset . What ended up happening is that council said enough , we wont fly any flags except the legion and visiting dignatarys .
You should have seen the hate filled letters in the newspaper ( I was suprised as I thought most should have come under the hate laws .I guess if you through in the word "bible" and "god" in the letter its ok ...duhh!
City council put up a good fight and as I was really suprised by the reaction from people because we had a black mayor years ago, i think one of the few in the councty at the time "butt" beleive me this area has quite a few red necks ( good ole country boys and girls ) .
Another thing they just did was order the canadian flag flown at half mast when a killed canadian soldier i broght home ( unlike Ottawa) .
Anyways , just a little story about flags , be it rainbow or any others .
Cheers
Derek ( not evil's middle name btw ..lol)

Elaine: 24th Jun 2008 - 21:10 GMT

the gay pride flag has 6 colours, the co-op movement flag has seven. There is a light blue stripe in the co-op flag. it was adopted in 1927

zagg: 24th Jun 2008 - 23:19 GMT

"The original flag had eight stripes, with each color representing a particular component of the gay community: hot pink for sex, red for life, orange for healing, yellow for sun, green for nature, turquoise for the arts, indigo for harmony, and violet for spirit.

The following year, as a result of extraordinary demand for the flag, Baker contacted San Francisco Paramount Flag Company to inquire about the possibility of mass-producing his flag for use in the 1979 parade. He was surprised to learn that due to production issues and the fact that hot pink was not a readily available commercial color, his original eight colors could not be used. The fact is that he had hand-dyed the original colors. Hot pink was removed from the palette and the flag was reduced to seven stripes, with indigo being replaced by royal blue."

--- http://www.nanaimopride.org/The%20history%20of%20pride%20flag.htm