Gay Alberta 2023 Travel Gui - Hotels, Bars, & Events

Contents:

• LIST OF EDMONTON’S GAY BARS
• THE BEST EDMONTON GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS EDMONTON
• HISTORY OF EDMONTON’S GAY BARS, PART 2: A FLASHBACK TO FLASHBACK
• HISTORY OF EDMONTON’S GAY BARS, PART 3: THE LONG-RUNNG
• GAY NIGHTLIFE - BARS, CLUBS, SNAS - NEED ADVICE - EDMONTON FOM
• HISTORY OF EDMONTON’S GAY BARS, PART 1: THE BEGNG
• GAY ALBERTA TRAVEL GUI
• GAY DATG EDMONTON
• EDMONTON GAY MAP

LIST OF EDMONTON’S GAY BARS

Read the 5-part seri, The History of Edmonton’s Gay Bars. First Gay Bar (Club 70) – September 1969.

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THE BEST EDMONTON GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS EDMONTON

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.

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.

HISTORY OF EDMONTON’S GAY BARS, PART 2: A FLASHBACK TO FLASHBACK

List of Edmonton’s Gay Bars. Dis was of particular signifince to gay male culture the late 1970s and to the 1980s, when quickly lost mercial viabily the straight world wh Amerin mpaigns like “Dis Demoln Night” and “Dis Sucks. Origally known as “The Cock’s Roost, ” The Roost opened ially as a gay men’s club.

HISTORY OF EDMONTON’S GAY BARS, PART 3: THE LONG-RUNNG

Tilroe rells how “many gay folks who were not as outgog or good lookg would hang out till the bter end hopg to fd a iend and other folks who clearly were unhappy and had drowned their sorrows.

Well to the 1990s, was not unmon for gay-bashers to drive around tcks lookg to e trouble for patrons. As societal acceptance of LGBTQ2 people creased this led to the ls obv need for dited gay bars, which sadly meant bs cled.

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One “ageg gay man” Gloucter, England, lamented the loss, sayg, “The Roost was the bt waterg hole that I have vised, not only Canada but also the world. Our clientele range om gay to bisexual, trans, qutng, straight. 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 built a new gay bar on the ma floor at 10345 – 104 Street. Ultimately, this proved to be a huge benef to Edmonton’s gay bar scene as people moved back and forth between the clubs.

HISTORY OF EDMONTON’S GAY BARS, PART 1: THE BEGNG

In 1985, the AIDS epimic h Edmonton and began takg the liv of clubgoers om the gay muny. Other plac entered Edmonton’s gay bar scene those early years. Boots ‘n Saddle operated as a more open-door gay bar, as opposed to beg exclive to queer folk.

Consistently voted the Bt Burgers by See Magaze and Vue Weekly, the ia of a public eatery joed wh a gay bar was a novelty that was met wh general acceptance by the by lunch crowds downtown. Loted a two-story buildg at 10116 – 124 Street, they also tered to the gay and lbian crowd. Seeg an opportuny for a new gay bar, Jim Brown began renovatg the send floor to a licensed space.

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On July 22, 2000, Buddys Neclub opened the basement at 11723b Jasper Avenue, makg this the third time a gay bar would be suated a basement (and certaly not the last!

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Re: Gay Nightlife - bars, clubs, snas - need advice. And nothg has ever been wrten this magaze for an overview of the gay life.

Buddy's and Woody's ter predomantly to a male clientele, whereas I believe that The Junctn and Flash ter to both lbians and gay men.

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The mise of Boots was very sad as had been open for over 30 years and was the longt nng gay tablishment Canada. It’s difficult to terme when exactly this strip of downtown beme known as a place for gay men to meet, but by 1969 the short strip of road already had a reputatn, dited by a unique document that was makg the rounds Canada – a gui to beg gay Canada, created and piled by Roedy Green, lear of the Vanuver chapter of Gay Alliance Towards Equaly. The Naive Homosexual was an unofficial handbook to assist gay men stgglg wh qutns about beg gay.

Gay travellers stayg at the Hotel Macdonald, the Chate Labe, Edmonton Hoe or even the adjacent Greenbriar, found that the opportuny to discretely sample the lols was simplified by the proximy to an active cisg area right across the street. In the 70s, the reputatn of this strip grew, beg not only a place for cisg for and sellg sex, but also a gatherg place after the only gay bar town – Club 70 – closed for the night.

In the late 1980s, 104 Street was where the straight men cised, and The Hill was where the gay men cised, but – all thgs beg relative – all kds of cisg occurred all the alleys between those lotns.