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Toronto, Ontario
Storied queer bookshop and café, now temporarily at 32 Lisgar St.
Glad Day, founded in 1970, is one of the oldest surviving LGBTQ+ bookstores in the world. After years as a combined bookstore, bar, and café at 499 Church Street in the heart of the Village, it relocated in mid-2025 to a temporary home at 32 Lisgar Street in the Queen West area, a smaller space pairing a bookstore with a café counter and a community lounge, while it works with the City of Toronto to secure a permanent return to the Village. Even in its interim form, it remains a working queer literary institution: shelves of LGBTQ+ fiction, history, and small-press titles, coffee, and a steady calendar of readings, book launches, and community events. For a traveler, it's less a quick souvenir stop than a place to actually spend an hour, and a piece of living history that has outlasted nearly every bookstore of its kind anywhere.
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