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Contents:

• LIST OF EDMONTON’S GAY BARS
• GAY NIGHTLIFE - BARS, CLUBS, SNAS - NEED ADVICE - EDMONTON FOM
• THE BEST EDMONTON GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS EDMONTON
• GAY NIGHTLIFE EDMONTON
• GAY NIGHTLIFE - BARS, CLUBS, SNAS - NEED ADVICE - EDMONTON FOM
• HISTORY OF EDMONTON’S GAY BARS, PART 5: INTO TODAY
• HISTORY OF EDMONTON’S GAY BARS, PART 2: A FLASHBACK TO FLASHBACK
• HISTORY OF EDMONTON’S GAY BARS, PART 4: THE EXPANDG SCENE
• STEAMWORKS EDMONTONEDMONTONMENUHOTELSBARSSNASGAY MAPSTEAMWORKS EDMONTON
• NEW FILM PUTS SPOTLIGHT ON LEGENDARY EDMONTON GAY CLUB FLASHBACK

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. Gay Nightlife - bars, clubs, snas - need advice.

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Evolutn Wonrlounge5Bars & Clubs • Gay BarsBy 704tamaradEvolutn also has weekly drag shows and monthly burlque shows, and 's the ial spot for Pri Ftival-goers.

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There are plenty of gay bars and nightclubs throughout Edmonton so you shouldn’t have any trouble fdg a good time. However, don’t thk that you have to go to a gay nightclub or a gay bar specifilly as Edmonton is very welg and every bar and club the cy n be the scene of a great time. Before we look at the most recent of gay bars Edmonton, let’s explore some honourable mentns.

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Outlastg the first attempt at a gay bar on Whyte Avenue (Club Aquari), Chigo opened s doors at 10838 – 82 Avenue. Gay bars outsi the downtown area were rare, but one attempt was ma 1999 to open a lbian-focsed space on Calgary Trail.

Operatg between 2001 and 2002, they looked to ter to a more sophistited gay crowd though they never really achieved this goal.

GAY NIGHTLIFE - BARS, CLUBS, SNAS - NEED ADVICE - EDMONTON FOM

In the sprg of 2005, Dennis Cambly (the owner of Pri Vio on the send floor of 10121 – 124 Street) ma his entry to the gay bar scene wh DiNovi’s Marti Lounge. Another lotn home to two different gay bars was the basement space at 10220 – 103 Street. By 2017, Evolutn was the only gay bar Edmonton, and remas that way 2020.

There had always been those rare “straight” spac that were “gay-iendly, ” om John Reid’s Rebar to spac like the now-closed Emprs on Whyte. Ongog rtrictns around COVID-19 leave a very different feel, but what feels the same is the celebratn of queer space and art, and the credible muny support which is what will keep Edmonton’s last gay bar alive and thrivg.

HISTORY OF EDMONTON’S GAY BARS, PART 5: INTO TODAY

List of Edmonton’s Gay Bars. Our clientele range om gay to bisexual, trans, qutng, straight.

Acrdg to owner John Reid, was to be “for gay people and their iends. For the send time, a gay bar was a basement.

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

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.

HISTORY OF EDMONTON’S GAY BARS, PART 4: THE EXPANDG SCENE

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. When nsirg Edmonton’s gay bar history, there were over thirty venu almost half a century. After about a year and a half of operatn, they cid to rename the bs and gear toward the gay muny.

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The venue altered between gay and straight dienc throughout the years. For reasons nobody uld que put their fgers on, the space jt never appealed enough to the gay muny for any of the ventur to be succsful. For the send time LGBTQ history, a queer-based bs had been forced out of s space by homophobic owners.

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It took time, but their posns regardg homosexualy eventually changed. One of the more unique gay bars Edmonton was a former Howard & McBri Funeral Parlor.

Wh most of the gay bars to date primarily terg to the gay male populatn, the lbian muny felt the need to create spac that were appealg to them. When Jim Schafer passed away 2010, the historic gay bar lotn of Club 70 and Boots beme available.

On September 22, 2012, the Junctn closed s doors, brgg to an end forty-two years gay bar operatn that space. Right: “A Ltle Gay Bar on 106 Street, ” closg night event at Junctn Bar & Eatery, September 22, 2012.