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Our pals at Flamingo Market put together a local, queer gift guide - check this stunning thing out!

Morning beautiful people! We want to get to 700 followers on our Yohomo Weekly playlist today. Follow if you can, we promise we only deliver the goods. We're giving away a Yohomo logo tee to the 700th follower! Here's the link to our page! http://bit.ly/yohomo-weekly

Looking for queer-owned items to include in our Favourite Things holigay guide! Post your pals in the comments <3Looking for queer-owned items to include in our Favourite Things holigay guide! Post your pals in the comments <3

We're still posting all the events we can find and ones folks send to us :) Our community is still doing cool shit and we promise to keep letting you know about as many as we can. Tonight from 7-10 for example, DJ Aeryn Pfaff and Karim Olen Ash are spinning in your living room <3

It's Trans awareness week, and to help celebrate and honour our amazing Trans family in Toronto and across the globe we created this playlist.

Today is Trans Day of Remembrance and we'd like to honour and celebrate the brave trailblazers, those we lost this year and the amazing folks who continue to live and fight through harmful adversities today. We asked Toronto Trans writer, speaker/educator & artist Robbie Ahmed to elaborate on a post he made online about supporting trans lives beyond sharing on social media and we're so thankful he did.

Did we miss anyone?

"I do believe there is a substance abuse issue in The Village and no one is saying anything."

Who would be your ride or die if you had the freedom to create and tour for a year with a drag duo act? Your best friend? a Frenemy? A performer with a complimentary set of skills? Toronto drag performers let us know who their stage Judy would be...

Every weekend for the month of October we’ll be posting a cool moment from our community to celebrate #LGBTQHistoryMonth! (They are gathered by writer, yohomo contributor and queer history enthusiast JP Laroque!) What better way to start off this spooooooooky month of Queer History than by reflecting on Halloween celebrations of the past! Despite occurring during a more conservative era in a notoriously conservative town, drag balls were one of the few large scale public ...queer gatherings held in Toronto from the late fifties through to the seventies first starting down on King Street by the Letros and King Edward Hotel and later migrating north to the St. Charles Tavern on Yonge Street (near Carlton). Whereas early the early events were actually celebratory, showcasing cooperation between citizens, police, and members of the community, they gradually became associated with violence and harassment, as crowds from the suburbs would gather along the sidewalk to throw eggs, hassle the queens and bash bar patrons. In the late seventies, cooperation between activists within the LGBTQ community and the Toronto police led to a dispersal of these crowds, and the ball was moved east to Church Street, evolving into the annual Halloween celebration we have today! (Lesson: Tip your queens. They've earned it.) Photo Credit: Gerald Hannon, 1979, CLGA Collection (1990-002-08P(01))

Happy 30th anniversary Inside Out LGBT Film Festival !!!

A brand new house-y set and interview from DJ Blackcat / Charmed Monroe - for all your safe hang needs! (we'll have a new set from a new guest every month!)

Good Monday morning everyone. Just wanted to say we miss you, we love you and we're still here for you <3Good Monday morning everyone. Just wanted to say we miss you, we love you and we're still here for you <3

Did you fall on your butt while in 6 inches platforms? Did you break a shelf like Priyanka Love? Toronto drag performers open themselves up and share their embarrassing stories.

"You were meant to be who you are. That’s what I’ve learned through my elders." Check out this brilliant interview Ty Sloane did for us with Two Spirit artist Shawnee!

Great news update you didn’t even know you needed! We’re re-launching our ISO Radio show THIS THURSDAY (7-9pm!) (and every fourth Thursday going forward!) with extra special guest Mykel Hall AKA DJ BlackCat! We’ll be having a fun talk and then going right into a brand new live set from the local legend. We’ll also be posting all future live sets on our Mixcloud page for all your house hang needs. With the re-launch were also working monthly with custom illustrations from the... brilliant Shain Lambert!!! Love, Us

Surprise! We asked some of our favourite Toronto drag artists some very serious questions while living in their bubbles. You'll laugh, you'll cry, you'll learn, you'll love. We hope you love this video series as much as we do. What if you had a limitless budget and full creative control to create your very own drag competition and challenge? We asked a panel of drag experts about what they would do.

Something to put on and party with TONIGHT! Bricks & Glitter <3

CONTEST ALERT: We're so proud to be a media partner for the Love Regardless queer film night at the 2020 CaribbeanTales International Film Festival. September 23 at 7pm the festival will screen two films online and we're giving away 3 pairs of tickets! All you have to do is like this post, like the Yohomo FB page and tag a friend you want to watch the movies with online. We'll contact the winner chosen randomly next Wednesday!

"A community arts festival celebrating and centering Black, Indigenous, Two-Spirit, Trans and Queer talent, ingenuity, caring, anger, and abundance" is happening in Toronto RIGHT NOW.