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- 12 OF THE HOTTT GAY BARS TORONTO FOR STEAMY NIGHTS
- GAY TORONTO THE 1970S
- GAY TORONTO
- THE 5 BEST TORONTO GAY CLUBS & BARSSEE ALL THGS TO DOGAY CLUBS & BARS TORONTO
- TORONTO GAY DISTRICT: THE VILLAGE
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One of the largt and longt-lastg gay dance clubs Toronto, this Sherbourne Street super-club went through a number of evolutns as spurred the lol mastreamg of gay culture durg the ’80s and ’90s. History: The story of Boots, one of Toronto’s bt-known and longt-lastg gay dance clubs, begs 1980 at the Waldorf Astoria apartment buildg.
Photo by Joan Anrson, urty of the Canadian Lbian & Gay Archiv. Image urty of Canadian Lbian & Gay Archiv.
Bob Harrison De, known simply as “Bob Harrison” durg his DJ days, rells that Boots, like many gay bars of the time, was ially a “stand-and-stare cise bar for men.
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Why was important: Boots opened at a time when gay bars were reasonably plentiful, largely based on or near Yonge Street, but there was not yet a centralized Gay Village. Boots and Bud’s also opened a mere half-year after the Febary 1981 police raids on four gay bathho that rulted over 300 arrts.
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Large related protts helped spark a strong gay-and-lbian rights movement this cy and beyond.
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For years before, bars that were gog unr would ‘go gay’ for the fal months, but gay bars were beg more rpectable, cleaner, and nicer. “Unfortunately, unlike Montreal and Vanuver, gay bars Toronto—other than Stag—didn’t spend money on sound and lights.
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Convcg Boots to pay a lightg person was a victory, as was unheard of gay bars Toronto before that, except at Stag and Charly’s [dis atop the St. The were humble begngs for a bar that would bee a gay Toronto stutn.
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Its succs had a profound effect on the few other gay bars, and changed the landspe of gay Toronto those days. Boots was his first gay bar, and would later bee his place of employment.
Posters urty of Canadian Lbian & Gay Archiv. He scrib algs wh Rick Stenhoe and his then-new “silent partners who weren’t volved the club or the gay muny. “Everybody was gog there, the tun were hot, and there was a real sense of eedom—pecially sce we were really makg headway wh gay rights then.
“I’m not sure when Rick Stenhoe beme sole owner, but his dream was a boutique gay hotel, ” says Storey.