My focus in Parkdale, is of a stretch of Queen Street West that has undergone a huge transformation in the last few years. This transformation is seen not only in its gentrification, common to so many other downtown neighbourhoods, but also in a particularly marked presence of gay, lesbian and transgendered people, queer positive businesses and organizations, all claiming the area as their own: a flip from Queen West to Queer West.

Here, a simple line drawing of the block becomes transformed by a plaid pattern as the residents that make up the neighbourhood, that have come together to form a community, populate the street scape.

David Grenier is a visual artist living in Toronto who works primarily in drawing, installation and performance. He has exhibited in the United States, the United Kingdom and across Canada.