City terminates gay club's lease

The Odyssey nightclub, a major gay stomping ground for over two decades, is looking for a new home following a joint city-provincial agreement to build supportive housing on its site.

"We were given notice May 1," reveals the Howe St club's co-owner Michael Levy, adding he had expected the bar to remain at its current site until 2011.

"This is where we were caught off-guard," Levy says. "Now, it's not as if we did not know that this would eventually be coming in 2011. I mean, we knew that because that's when our lease expired and we did not expect it to be renewed. However, we did not expect it to be by the end of this year." City terminates gay club's lease
Xtra.ca, Canada