Montréal Gay & Lesbian Community Centre & Library

Montréal


This gay and lesbian center, around since 1988, has an extensive library of publications related to sexual diversity and loads of info on the city’s queer scene.


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1. Écomusée du Fier Monde

0.28 MILES

This striking ex-bathhouse explores the history of Centre-Sud, an industrial district in Montréal until the 1950s and now part of the Village. The museum…

2. Parc La Fontaine

0.38 MILES

At 34 hectares, this great verdant municipal park is the city’s third largest, after Parc du Mont-Royal and Parc Maisonneuve. In the warmer months weary…

3. Rue Ste-Catherine Est

0.45 MILES

Montréal’s embrace of the gay community is tightest along the eastern end of Rue Ste-Catherine, a one-time bed of vice and shabby tenements. This strip of…

4. Galerie Blanc

0.51 MILES

Sun, snow and lack of sobriety are no barrier at this free open-air art gallery smack in the middle of the Village's bar street. The often-abstract works…

5. Église St-Pierre-Apôtre

0.58 MILES

Located in the Village, this neoclassical church from 1853 has a number of fine decorations – flying buttresses, stained glass, statues in Italian marble …

6. Rue St-Denis

0.61 MILES

The backbone of Montréal’s francophone shopping district, Rue St-Denis is lined with hat and garment shops, uberhip record stores and terrace cafes…

8. Carré St-Louis

0.64 MILES

This lovely green square with a three-tiered fountain is flanked by beautiful rows of Second Empire homes. In the 19th century a reservoir here was filled…