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Toby's Place

Toby’s Place is a weekly drop-in after-school program for 2SLGBTQIA+ youth, questioning youth, and their allied friends, ages 13-20, living in Scarborough and the Greater Toronto Area.

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Dorothy's Place

Dorothy's Place is a weekly drop-in lunch program for 2SLGBTQIA+ Seniors and Older Adults (55+), living in Scarborough and the Greater Toronto Area.

Our Programs

The Toby's Place and Dorothy's Place programs both take place at 33 East Rd. Scarborough, Ontario. We are located at the basement level, down the mobility-aid-accessible ramp. Our entrance is accessible to wheelchairs, scooters, and other mobility aids. We have wheelchair-accessible washroom stalls, and all of our washrooms are gender-neutral. We share the building with Bluffs Food Bank and Birchcliff Bluffs United Church.

Our mailing address is:

Rainbow Community Places

33 East Rd. Scarborough, ON. Canada.

M1N 1Z9

Rainbow Community Places is located on the traditional territories of Ho-de-no-sau-nee-ga (Haudenosaunee), Anishinabewaki ᐊᓂᔑᓈᐯᐗᑭ, Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation, Mississauga, Mississaugas of the Scugog, and Wendake-Nionwentsïo peoples.

Where are we?
Upcoming Events
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Join us Sunday, November 2nd at 7:30pm for a hilarious evening of standup and musical comedy in support of Rainbow Community Places! Buy something special to take home in our Silent Auction!
 

NEW this year: An Online Show - If you can't come in person you can still enjoy the show!  The Online Show will open on YouTube on Friday, November 14th and close on November 30th, 2025.
 

The comedy show will be directed by music director/comedian Randy Vancourt (Dr. Dememto Show, Juno Nominee) and hosted by renowned comedian/actor/writer Martha Chaves (Just for Laughs, We're Funny That Way, CBC).


Martha Chaves is an internationally-known Nicaraguan-Canadian comic who performs in English, Spanish, French and Italian, hosted the 2024 ACTRA Awards and our 2024 Comedy Benefit Show.
 

Joining Randy and Martha onstage will be an amazing line-up of several of Toronto's best comedy artists, including Deborah Kimmett (The Debaters, Winnipeg Comedy Festival, CBC's Laugh Out Loud), Peter Wildman (The Frantics, The Red Green Show), Brendan D'Souza (Just for Laughs, Canadian Screen Award - Roast Battle Canada), Robert Watson (Gay AF Comedy), Ted Morris (America's Got Talent, The Debaters, Just for Laughs) and Kelly Zemnickis (CBC's Laugh Out Loud).
 

Your support of our Comedy Benefit Show will enable Rainbow Community Places to continue to offer our Toby's Place drop-in dinner program for 2SLGBTQIA+ youth and Dorothy's Place drop-in lunch program for 2SLGBTQIA+ older adults.

"Thank you"s and Acknowledgements
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The United Church of Canada Foundation

Rainbow Community Places is very grateful to The United Church of Canada Foundation for the Seeds of Hope grant from the Watkins Fund for Innovative Ministries with Senior Adults at The United Church of Canada Foundation. This grant is contributing to payment of the costs of our Moving Places project to complete the transfer of the Dorothy's Place and Toby's Place programs from Birchcliff Bluffs United Church to Rainbow Community Places.  

Rainbow Community Places

Rainbow Community Places runs safe(r) space drop-in programming for members of the 2SLGBTQIA+ community.

 

Our two current programs are

Toby's Place (a free afterschool drop-in program for 2SLGBTQIA+ youth and their allied friends, ages 13-20), and Dorothy's Place (a drop-in luncheon for 2SLGBTQIA+ older adults, ages 55+, and their caregivers).

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