Tag Archives: Montreal

Afternoon View – Real Poutine

This is for the purists who dissed yesterday’s poutine post.

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Evening View – Poutine!

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RECAP: Montreal Day 3

Yesterday my able homo-guide started our excursion at the famous St. Viateur Bagels in Montreal’s hipster-heavy Mile End, home to many of the city’s artists, musicians, and writers. Think Billyburg, but with slightly fewer sleeve tattoos. The bagels aren’t very New York-y, more like unsalted warm pretzels, therefore I liked them. After bagels, Daniel rented me an orange electric scooter …

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Daily Ungrumble

I think my favorite moment last night came when a hot little Quebecois whispered to me in passing, “Wahhtch out fah Pahno Peet, Joe!” Cracked me up.

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Afternoon View – On Mount Royal

Today’s excursion included a trip to the top of Montreal’s namesake. More on today in tomorrow’s recap. I hope to see some of you local homos tonight at Gotha at 9pm!

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RECAP: Montreal Day 2

Yesterday my able homo-guide from Touisme Montreal and I picked up a couple of Bixi bikes and made an all-day excursion across the enormous Jacques Cartier Bridge over the St. Lawrence and down onto Île Sainte-Hélène in the middle of the river, where we toured Parc Jean-Drapeau. There we circled the Biosphere from the 1967 World’s Fair and rode the …

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Morning View – Bixi Stand

Montreal has a fantastic public bike system called Bixi (bike-taxi), in which you can swipe a credit card and take a bike for free for up to 30 minutes. Longer rides start at $1.50/hour and are very reasonable thereafter. You can return to the bike to any of the numerous docking stands around town, making them perfect for short one-way …

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Evening View – At Garde Manger

Tonight my able homo-guide to Montreal treated me to dinner in Old Montreal at Garde Manger, a highly-regarded place recently made more famous because of a reality show starring its owner, which is now running on the Food Network in Canada. I recommend the halibut. And the scallops. And the bartender. Definitely the bartender.

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FRIDAY: JMG Meet-Up At Gotha

Hello Montrealers, we’re planning a little JMG-meetup at Gotha Salon Bar on Amherst at 9PM on Friday (tomorrow.) I imagine the night will continue from there to far more debauched locales, but we’ll start with pretty. Hope to see you there!

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Afternoon View – Visitation & St. Catherine

In the summertime, the main street through Montreal’s gay village is closed to traffic.

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Open Thread Thursday

Here am I in Montreal, not speaking a single word of French. Boo me. What languages do you speak? Which are you learning?

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Evening View – Square Ville

The bathroom in my Montreal hotel room has a square toilet. OK, then.

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Blowoff: The Artwork

Signed and limited editions of Linas Garsys’ iconic poster artwork for the Blowoff parties are now available for purchase on the artist’s site. Next week his work will be shown during Montreal’s Divers/Cite, details here and below.

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Automelodi – Schema Corporel

I’m getting somewhat of a Liquid Sky vibe here.

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Montreal Divers/Cité: July 26 – August 1

A couple of days after I get back from Netroots Nation, I’ll be making my Canadia debut when Tourisme Montréal brings me up to cover Divers/Cité, the 18th annual gay pride arts, music, and party festival. Eighteen and going strong. All together different! Divers/Cité is an event whose mission is to present an arts and music festival that illustrates and …

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QUEBEC: Montreal Pride Launches “Queer Of The Year” Contest

Montreal Pride has launched a “Queer Of The Year” contest in which the winner gets a week in Montreal, a shopping spree, and their very own float in the parade. Details at the link and in the video clip below. You don’t have be Canadian to win and you’ve got until July 22nd to enter.

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One Take

Several of you have written to point us to this amazing lip-sync video made by students at L’Université du Québec à Montréal. It’s all done in just one take and according to the YouTube notes, the entire production took just over two hours.

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No Federal Money For Divers/Cite

Early this month, a $400K donation to Toronto Pride by the Canadian federal government was criticized by conservatives, resulting in the disciplining of a member of parliament who posed with drag queens during a check presentation ceremony. Now the feds say they have no money for Divers/Cite, Montreal’s giant gay arts week. An Industry Canada spokeswoman says there are just …

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Montreal Pride Back On

Montreal’s Pride parade is back on, rescued by a new community group called Celebrations LGBTA Montreal. (The “A” in their LGBTA stands for “amis”.) Montreal Pride is now scheduled for July 28th & 29th. In May, Divers/Cité (the group that has put on the parade in the past) backed out, citing wishes to focus on their gay cultural festival which …

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