Gay Waterloo - Ontar - Canada

Contents:

• THE 5 BEST ONTAR GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS ONTAR
• GAY DATG KCHENER
• GAY WATERLOO (ONTAR)
• THE 5 BEST ONTAR GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS ONTAR

THE 5 BEST ONTAR GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS ONTAR

Historilly 2SLGBTQ+ or “gay” bars have been a safe space for many the muny when they do not feel safe at work, school or home. Kchener had Club Ren, a gay bar on Charl St.

Although The Rob’s Nt was maly there for lbians, was an clive space for gay, straight and transgenr folks. “Haton hasn’t had any (gay) bars for que some time.

Bee back those days, unfortunately, gay bashg was a pastime, not a crime.

GAY DATG KCHENER

And then some of the gay bars started poppg up. And then across om [Kchener] cy hall where that big empty lot is, there ed to be a gay bar the basement there, which you attend through the back alleyway, lled the Half and Half Club, and then beme the Pk Zone and then eventually the owners of the Ren took over and moved up to Charl what about plac that don't serve alhol, that wouldn't be bars, per se?

And now, nursg hom, where gay people are gog back the closets.

GAY WATERLOO (ONTAR)

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"Queer youth at Kchener nference optimistic about the future of LGBTQ+ rightsRabow Pag go virtual, mak Waterloo regn LGBTQ directory more accsibleAlthough the bar was maly there for lbian women, was an clive space for gay, straight and transgenr folks. Photo by Jsi DikThis month, members of the LGBTQ muny will have a new spot to vis wh the openg of Waterloo’s first ever gay bar.

THE 5 BEST ONTAR GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS ONTAR

Kchener-Waterloo lols Devon McKenzie, Rami Said and Brett Cullen are openg The Orr, a gay bar where both LGBTQ and straight persons n vis and feel fortable while meetg ia me to owners Said and McKenzie when they realized Waterloo was need of a bar dited to the buildg up and support of the LGTBQ muny. A lot of our iends are part of the muny and have the same problem where there’s jt nowhere to go, ” Said bar’s name is rived om The Orr of Chaeronea, an unrground society the late 1800s that provid a means of tn on homosexualy and goal of the bar is to promote acceptance of all genrs and sexuali K-W. “Waterloo has a very large gay muny terms of our populatn.

Everybody is very supportive and other bars are already talkg about throwg events together to kd of build up the muny, ” he Waterloo’s first gay bar, they are workg associatn wh Spectm, Waterloo’s LGBTQ and rabow muny space, hop of creatg a place that giv LGBTQ persons a feelg of belongg. “Before this, meetg someone else who was gay was jt a matter of chance when was actually face-to-face. Now there will be a place where, should someone want to, gays n go to socialize wh each other, ” said openg of the bar is about jog the muny of LGBTQ wh the rt of the populatn and strengtheng the ti between the two.