Ottawa

From PinkApproved

Ottawa is an open, friendly and welcoming destination for gay and lesbian travelers. Canada's Capital has an LGBT pedigree that extends back to the first-ever gay and lesbian public demonstration in Canada (1971), and that in recent years included perhaps the most public gay marriage of all time between two gay stars of the TV program The Amazing Race. Today, Ottawa is home to a proud and active gay and lesbian community with an ever-expanding variety of clubs, organizations, activities and events – including a very boisterous annual Pride Week celebration – that reflects the diversity of the local community. The centre of gay and lesbian life is the area around Bank Street and Somerset in the downtown core. Our growing gaybourhood has shops and bars and is the home base for local institutions serving the LGBT community. Explore it by day—or by night. But don't feel you have to limit yourself to one neighborhood. There are things happening all over. On Sunday evenings, for example, there's a lesbian coffee club in suburban Barrhaven. You'll find gays and lesbians all over the city, doing the active things Ottawans do.

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Did You Know?
What makes Ottawa unique? It's hard to even know where to begin! Here are a few of our favorite "fun facts" about Ottawa city in Canada:

• Rainbow City is Ottawa's GLBT "Village" Located within minutes (walking) from Parliament Hill.
• Canada's Capital has an LGBT pedigree that extends back to the first-ever gay and lesbian public demonstration in Canada (1971),
• every July the city hosts the biggest one-day beach volleyball tournament in the World
• Ottawa is a bilingual city; the residents of Ottawa speak mainly English (50 percent population) and French (32 percent population). Other languages spoken in the city are Italian, Spanish, Chinese, Arabic and Portuguese.
• The Forbes Magazine has rated Ottawa as the 4th cleanest city out of 300 major cities of the world. This clean city is also one of the greenest capitals in the world, surrounded by wetlands, parklands and forests.
• Queen Victoria had designated Ottawa as the capital of Canada on December 31, 1857. In the earlier times, Ottawa was known as Bytow