Friends of Hanlan’s

Hanlan's Point Beach is one of the world's oldest surviving queer spaces, but so much of its history remains untold. Help us change that. Share Carol's story of 1940s queer beach life and tag your friends that make Hanlan's special for you <3 #HanlansPointBeach #TorontoIslands

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Here's @Richard_Florida spinning for his clients @PortsToronto as they bully the @cityoftoronto into giving up a central piece of the waterfront for 40 years. thestar.com/opinion/contri…

@EricDLombardi Would love to connect about this Eric... and fill you in on why a connection at the Eastern Gap would destroy the remaining culture at the beach.

If we’re going to do all the work to extend Billy bishop, please for the love of god build a transit connection for a street car to stop at the airport and loop at Hanlans, we won’t regret it.

@EricDLombardi @AlexForgay @blckmrshmllow nothing has been renovated at Hanlan's, there was a lacklustre shoreline protection project that is only necessary due to the original alteration of nearshore drift caused by the construction of the Leslie Street Spit.

@AlexForgay @blckmrshmllow They are a natural area that would not exist in current form without our direct intervention. We just spent the last few years renovating Hanlans for ex.

The Toronto Islands as they are today are man made, just like the Portlands and Tommy Thompson park. They are not “Natural”. We are living in a society our ancestors built for us, but refuse to build anything great for our children.

@Vancouverismism If you have any sources for the defoliation at Hanlan's, please DM, would love to add to our research.

Neoliberal urbanism poses grave threats to nature and people. Ahmed Allahwala considers how activism to save Hanlan’s Point Beach, a site for 2SLGBTQ+ life and history as well as a sensitive coastal area, can inform preservation struggles. buff.ly/3yFySAn @ahmed_allahwala

The Struggle to Preserve Hanlan’s Point Beach as Queer Social Infrastructure | by Ahmed Allahwala buff.ly/3yFySAn @ahmed_allahwala

@6ixbuzztv Context: Hanlan's is Canada's oldest surviving queer space - since at least the late 1930s - and the site of the country's first Pride in 1971.

Toronto made history today for having the world's longest rainbow walk on Toronto Islands at Hanlan's Point.

@Bruce267755447 @prettypatriotCA Pinned to our twitter

@prettypatriotCA Why is it historically significant?

Give an inch they'll take 1,000 miles.

@viralvideos You can learn more about the history of this space by checking out our IG. It is the country's oldest surviving queer space and the site of the first Pride in Canada in 1971, which was a gathering focused on demanding basic rights which were denied to the community at the time.

@cougarvision @MayorOliviaChow @PrideToronto @ausmalik @WaterfrontBIA spent 350+hrs of research on this, incuding interviews, happy to connect to tell you more about the history, email is in our bio link

Hanlan's has been an important gathering place for the 2SLGBTQI+ community for 80 years. I was honoured to help cut the ribbon and take a stroll along the world's longest Rainbow Road to celebrate the queer history - and future - of Hanlan's Point.

@BenStanton77 Historical context: the site of the road is Canada's oldest surviving queer space and the site of the country's first Pride event, held in 1971 at a time when few equal rights were extended to queer people. You can learn more on our page.

The longest Rainbow Road is now in Toronto. Stop ramming your weird none sense into our lives. Go do your thing and leave us out of it. Signed Tired straight person

@Xx17965797N History note: Hanlan's Point Beach is Canada's oldest surviving queer space and the site of Canada's first Pride event in 1971, held at the time to rally for rights that would take decades to achieve. You can learn more on our profile.

🙄The longest Rainbow Road is in Toronto Now.

@blogTO History note for anyone interested: Hanlan's is Canada's oldest surviving queer space and the site of the first Pride in the country (1971) at a time when little to rights had been achieved for the community. It is also one of the ten oldest surviving queer spaces in the world.

Toronto is now home to the longest rainbow road in the world blogto.com/city/2024/05/t…

@clownworld /8 bother folks to see people enjoying it.

@clownworld Historical note for anyone interested: Hanlan's is the oldest surviving queer space in Canada and one of the ten oldest in the world. Canada's first Pride event was held here in 1971 as a picnic gathering to discuss an open letter to the government and a rally that would take /1

The longest Rainbow Road is now in Toronto. It’s fucking stupid and looks terrible. Stop pushing this nonsense on people.

@clownworld /7 spaces that reflect their experiences and their histories. Considering the national and global significance of this space to a community that is found in every corner of the world at all times, and is maginalized today still in the *majority* of countries, it really shouldn't

@clownworld /6 parks in the city. You can choose whatever narrative you want, that queers "have too much" or they are "pushing" something on you, but the fact this space has been neglected for decades as it erodes doesn't line up with either of those statements. Many other Canadians have

@clownworld /5 of this space is significant to queer people on a national level in Canada and even beyond. The city attempted to remove queer people in the 1950s by bulldozing a number of homes near the beach and it has not invested in the space since 1962, longer than almost all other

@clownworld /4 alone the people they were dating. There aren't a lot of queer spaces remaining prior to the 1980s because most were only able to last a few years before a combination of prejudice or violence shut them down. Think what you want about the road itself but the importance