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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

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

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Though was not a gay bar, the crowds were very much a mix of people. 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. 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. 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.

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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.

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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. 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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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.

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By 1978, Edmonton had 3 gay bars and many gay anizatns. That was also the year that the Pisc Spa opened, addg another all-night optn for the socializg gay male. Gay Alliance Toward Equaly (GATE) was askg gay men not to hang out at The Hill anymore, or at least utned vigilance, bee cinc of antigay vlence were on the rise.

There are reports of van-loads of gay-bashers arrivg on the scene, pourg out of vehicl, armed wh chas or baseball bats, sendg cisers stterg to the dark alleys, away om the danger. There are also reports of the queers fightg back, chasg homophob away. It was kd of like a ngregatn spot for all gay people.

That may have held off the gaybashers for a spell, but the vlence wasn’t over.

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In 1981, the cy had been regaled wh nonstop negative media verage of the gay muny bee of the hysteria surroundg the Pisc bathhoe raid. This heightened visibily led to an adverse reactn, and September of 1981 the Edmonton Journal ran a story lled “Gays On The Hill” which told of a seri of gaybashgs volvg men swgg baseballs bats, leadg to 9 cisers and sex workers requirg hospalizatn for the juri staed durg vlent attacks.

Thgs were still active the mid-80s, although the party had gone doors to the three gay bars that Edmonton now boasted, one of them open as late as the after-hours party spots that peppered downtown. In 1986, the gay muny learned that a staff member at Flashback had been murred by a trick that he had taken home after his shift at the bar. By the mid-1990s, anti-gay vlence was one of the many reasons street cisg began to wane.

There uld still be htlers found on The Hill, and homophobic vlence still occurred – sometim reactn to big news stori about gay rights – but cisers found other ways to mgle. See also: ECAMP Podst S02E01 | Herage Tre & Gay Cisg the 1980s by ECAMP podst | Listen onle for ee on SoundCloud.