: Venues such as the Black Eagle are historically central to Toronto's leather and kink subcultures, where consensual power-exchange relationships (Master/slave) are practiced.
Recent academic reports and archival studies at the University of Toronto and Concordia University explore the overlapping histories of slavery and the 2SLGBTQ+ community in Ontario:
: Reports from the City of Toronto acknowledge the involuntary arrival of ancestors via the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade. Modern studies like Leisure as Black Survival highlight how the Toronto ballroom scene creates "Black queer spaces" to reclaim identity from historically white-dominated queer spaces.
In a contemporary context, the term "slave" often refers to a specific role within the BDSM/Leather community in Toronto’s Church and Wellesley Village .