Arts & Entertainment
Toronto opens ‘only gay sports bar’
venue advertises as first of its kind
(Photo by John Vetterli; courtesy Wikimedia Commons)
Toronto has expanded its LGBT bar scene with the opening of “officially Toronto’s only gay sports bar,” Global News reports.
Striker Sports Bar opened in September as a haven for gay people to enjoy watching sports without the hassle of finding an appropriate bar.
Bar co-owner Kevin Lee told Global News he and his business partners came up with the idea after they struggled to find somewhere to watch a hockey game.
“It was really uncomfortable looking for these places and not having anywhere to go and sit down and look at the televised sports,” Lee says.
Striker Sports Bar is meant to be an inclusive space for all to watch sports.
“The whole idea behind Striker is to bridge that gap between the predominantly straight — I would say straight — sports leagues and the gays,” Lee says.
Since the bar’s opening, it has earned a five-star Yelp rating.
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This John Waters interview has been edited for readability — but perhaps not human decency
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By WESLEY CASE | At 80 years old, John Waters is still the ideal dinner guest — incisively sharp, quick-witted and funny as hell.
The chic Baltimore native proved it again and again in a recent Zoom interview, calling from his summer home in Provincetown, Mass.
The occasion was the Blu-ray releases of two of his movies — the 1977 dark comedy “Desperate Living” and his enduring 1988 musical “Hairspray” — on June 23 by the Criterion Collection, which publishes restorations of films it deems culturally important. The Criterion stamp of approval has become the gold standard among cinephiles.
“It’s like getting an award,” said Waters, who wrote and directed both films.
The rest of this article can be read on the Baltimore Banner’s website.
The Washington Blade held the seventh annual Pride on the Pier at The Wharf DC on Saturday, June 13.
(Washington Blade photos by Landon Shackelford)
The 2026 Lost River Pride Festival was held on the scenic grounds of the Lost River Farmers Market in Lost City, W.Va. on Saturday, June 13. Headliner Tom Goss performed at the festival and gave a second performance at the nearby Guesthouse Lost River.
(Washington Blade photos by Michael Key)
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