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Title: Toronto’s flush with unisex washrooms
Post by: Shana A on March 04, 2011, 08:26:13 AM
Toronto's flush with unisex washrooms
Published On Fri Mar 04 2011
Kate Allen Staff Reporter

http://www.thestar.com/living/article/948118--toronto-s-flush-with-unisex-washrooms (http://www.thestar.com/living/article/948118--toronto-s-flush-with-unisex-washrooms)

The lights are dim and you've reached the party end of a bottle of cab-sauv. Now you're squinting at the bathroom doors of some trendy new restaurant in dismay. What happened to Miss Triangle-Skirt and her unbending pal?

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Gendered bathroom signs are "a very old-school, traditional way of doing things," says Scott Vivian, chef of nine-month-old Beast restaurant, where both washrooms are unisex. The only difference between the two is wall art: a Beastie Boys poster in one, an Attack of the 50 Foot Woman poster in the other.