As one of Toronto’s key LGBTQ landmarks, the Gladstone Hotel has been a creative hub for the arts community and the alternative queer scene since Christina Zeidler took over in 2003. This June 2016 marks Toronto Pride's first ever Pride Month, featuring fabulous events throughout Toronto culminating with the 10-day long Pride Toronto festival from June 24th to July 3rd.
With its 37 unique artist-designed hotel rooms, live music, public art galleries, and the fact that it’s in the heart of what Vogue called the second coolest neighbourhood in the world, the Gladstone is the perfect Pride 2016 destination to have a gay old time. The Gladstone Hotel has an entire month of fabulously queer events and art shows from June 1st to July 3rd.
Queer Slowdance
June 10, 2016, Ballroom, $10 at the door, Doors at 9:15pm
Toronto's Queer Slowdance has all the slow songs, all night long with a lending library of designated dancers for all the wallflowers, and a dance card-booklet to set up dances in advance (should you choose to). It's high school with a happy ending. Come and experience why slow is beautiful, and why love is not ironic.
Night of 1000 Dolly’s
June 30th, Ballroom + Gallery. Doors at 10pm. $10 Cover.
Dolly-lujah! Bring out your cowboy boots and your country-and-western drag duds for Steers & Queers: Night of a Thousand Dolly’s in the Ballroom hosted by Miss Fluffy Soufflé. This popular, annual gay country party is a campy homage to country legend Dolly Parton, which will feature live music, a Dolly look-a-like contest, drag, burlesque and lots of rowdy dancing with a dress code of country wear.
That’s So Gay Exhibition: Come Together
June 1st - July 3rd | 2nd, 3rd + 4th Floor Galleries | Regular exhibition hours
Opening reception will be on June 30th from 7-10pm.
The Gladstone Hotel is proud to present That’s So Gay 2016: Come Together, an expressive multi-media show that inspires and reflects on action and activism during a year that has witnessed unprecedented coverage of cross-movement issues. With drawings, paintings, installations and video works from artists including Christopher Rodrigues, Reena Katz (Radiodress) and Evan Ifekoya (UK), the show takes on the collective struggle of Indigenous, Black, POC Two-Spirited and LGBTTI2QQ communities, and the need to unify while calling for creative responses to transphobic and homophobic violence.
