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Read the 5-part seri, The History of Edmonton’s Gay Bars. First Gay Bar (Club 70) – September 1969. Our clientele range om gay to bisexual, trans, qutng, straight.

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Read the 5-part seri, The History of Edmonton's Gay Bars Part 1: The Begng Part 2: A Flashback to Flashback Part 3: The Long-Runng Part 4: The Expandg Scene Part 5: Into Today First Gay Bar (Club 70) - September 1969. 10593 – 101 Street.  Club 70 – January 1970 to 1977. 10242 – 106… * gay bar edmonton alberta *

Acrdg to owner John Reid, was to be “for gay people and their iends.

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Read Part 1: The Begng & Part 2: A Flashback to Flashback. The Roost Another important venue Edmonton’s gay bar scene was The Roost. At the same time that Flashback ( s first lotn on Jasper Avenue) was fillg to pacy, four people who had been fluential the management of Club 70 quietly… * gay bar edmonton alberta *

For the send time, a gay bar was a basement. Gay, lbian, bisexual, transgenr, or straight were all wele as long as they rpected the right for same-sex activi to be the foc of an eveng’s entertament.

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Wh many LGBTQ muny members brgg along their iends (both gay and straight), the club regularly reached the pacy set by the ALCB. Though was not a gay bar, the crowds were very much a mix of people. List of Edmonton’s Gay Bars.

The ternatnally renowned Edmonton gay bar Flashback opened 1975 and for 16 years was open to the LGBTQ2S+ muny and their alli. "[It] had a sign the door that read, 'Flashback is a club for gay people and their iends, '" said Matthew Hays, the film's wrer.

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"It was a place where if you were homophobic, you weren't wele. Gay or straight. At the time, Hays said was unmon for gay bars to let heterosexual people .

"In the 1980s, there was still a lot of vol and toxic homophobia wherever you went, " he add. "Even when I was at the Universy of Alberta on mp I would hear people sayg really homophobic thgs, really nasty thgs about AIDS.

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Part of that was self protectn, so Flashback was different that said everyone's wele as long as you're ol wh gay people. "A lot of straight people for the first time met gay people when they were partyg at the club and was a great way for people to learn about the fact that we're all this together, " he said.

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The Edmonton Queer History Project (EQHP) reports that founr John Reid saw the need for a more clive space after Mother Jean, a straight woman wh roots the drag muny, was nied entry to an Edmonton gay bar.

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"I thk a lot of people thk of Alberta as a real homophobic backwater and I like people to see some of the really fabulo queer thgs that went on Edmonton, " Hays said. When the landlord found out that gay people were g his buildg, he promptly put locks on the doors and nied further entry.

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Ias nnected to social pury activism that emerged the 1890s began impactg how society was expected to thk, and as the Send World War began, so did the persecutn of gay men. It was beg difficult to meet other gay men, and Edmonton-based law enforcement were creasgly chargg dividuals wh crim such as gross cency, buggery, and posssn of obscene lerature.

Bill C-150 opened the doors to the gay and lbian muny Edmonton, fally allowg for the opportuny to meet others a “public” place. Many tabl were filled wh gay men shortly after openg each day. In the evengs, the back sectn of the Mayfair Hotel tavern was a haven for members of the gay and lbian muny, often meetg to swill back untls draft glass, sloshg beer over the terry cloth table vers that were required by the Alberta Liquor Control Board (ALCB) which then dripped down onto the beer-soaked rpet (another requirement of the ALCB.

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The on clost to the back were for the “gays, ” and this ctom was rpected by hotel staff and ctomers alike.

There was a ph to create safe spac for gays only, where ls termglg wh other populatns lsened the chance of abe. In the fall of 1969, when homosexuals were no longer thrown jail for their sexualy, a small group of people cid to open a place dited to gay and lbian folk.

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In the later part of 1969, they opened the very first gay bar Edmonton. This historic se was schled for moln Augt 2020, which wip away the begng of Gay Bar History Edmonton.

This also meant that to be a member or a gut, one had to be gay or lbian.

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The dour-lookg person monorg the entry would grill any prospective guts wh qutns about their purpose for g, their sexualy, and more- to get “proof” they were gay or lbian. It was a meang procs to first-timers already nervo about g to a gay tablishment, but served to protect the clientele those early years.

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Dpe the bt efforts to ensure the safety of those g to Club 70, asslts om “gay bashers” happened many tim through the years, and police were often lled when fights took place outsi.

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