Gay dating in Ontario

Ontario is really several dating scenes wearing one licence plate. There’s Toronto, with the biggest gay village in the country and every app humming at once. There’s Ottawa, where half your matches seem to work for the government. Then Hamilton and Windsor, with new queer bars and plenty of locals who never bothered driving to Church Street, and Oshawa and Durham, commuting in both directions on the 401.

Kingston and Thunder Bay round it out, smaller places where chatting online first is often the only practical way in. Each guide tells you how it works there.