Montreal's Gay Village is situated on Saint Catherine Street East, between the Beaudry Metro station and Amherst Street in the city's Ville-Marie neighborhood. What's left is a neighborhood in flux as businesses rely more and more on the summer tourist season to stay financially sustainable.' 'Village merchants are losing out on business as gay people feel more welcome in other parts of the city.Young gay men and women feel more at ease in many parts of the city and don't look only to the village to live, shop and party.
The source explains this seemingly strange phenomenon as follows. To the Montreal Gay Pride, in particular, rising attendance can only mean more business for the city's gay village.įor decades, CBC News reports, the Montreal Gay Village has struggled to reinvent itself as it 'becomes a victim of its own success.' Nevertheless, Trudeau's gay parade attendance will always be a big thing for event organizers as he causes Pride attendance to swell to record levels.
'It's sort of frustrating that it has to be a big thing,' CTV News quotes the prime minister as saying.
