Goo for our sins. Delicious, delicious goo.

An ominous-looking billboard urging onlookers to “Release the Goo” has gone up in Yonge-Dundas Square, apparently to advertise Cadbury’s Cream Eggs. Commence childish snickers.

Further up Yonge St, you find lots of other ways to release the goo at Glad Day Book Shop, which is now the oldest gay and lesbian bookstore still operating, at least until Dubai finishes its time machine and builds something older.

But in sad news, The Varsity reports that domestic violence shelters and counsellor aren’t equipped to deal with lesbian, gay, bisexual, or trans victims.

Rob Salerno is a playwright and journalist whose writing has appeared in such publications as Vice, Advocate, NOW and OutTraveler.

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