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Central Condo—Ottawa’s gayest and swankiest condo located at Bank and Gladstone—has been a source of controversy in town. Anti-poverty activists crashed last week’s launch party and clashed with police. They’re angry at the gentrification of Ottawa and claim the developers, Urban Capital Property Group, are pushing affordable housing out of the neighbourhood, decrying the residents as “social elites.”

At the beginning of the year, DC comics created international buzz amongst anxious readers by announcing a major character would come out as gay. In early June, the Green Lantern came out to the whole world. And that’s just the latest in a list of comic book heroes that are coming out…

Sebastien Provost took a two-month vacation after the closing Flamingo. “I worked on average 80 hours a week,” he says. “So creatively, I had nothing left.” He needed that space to become Sebastien Provost again and not just “Mr. Flamingo.”

When we asked Glenn Crawford what he was most proud of when he saw the City of Ottawa erect “The Village” signs in October 2011, he said it was “having our community come out of the closet.” We felt like we could relate: Glenn is an out and proud member of our exclusive Top 10 Personalities of the Decade for 2B’s 10th Anniversary.

On November 8, 2011, the designated gay village of Ottawa finally became a reality, but no one was informed in advance, including the Village Committee who have been advocating for the re-naming of the street for the last six years. No one’s complaining that Ottawa now has a visual symbol of their GLBT Village, but why the surprise signs?

After six years of lobbying the City of Ottawa to create a designated Gay Village in the Capital, the City finally put up some signs last week. Non-profit initiative The Village was behind the community consultation and benefit actions like Build our Bank in recent years, but Ottawa’s Councilor Diane Holmes beat them to the punch…

Mural commemorating the first LGBT civil rights demo in Canada to be unveiled Fri Aug 26 during Capital Pride by Ottawa non-profit organizers The Village

What Capital Pride has managed to do for its socially savvy 26th edition is to make a pride week that is truly representative of Ottawa’s LGBT community, but still has enough glamour to attract some out-of-town attention.