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Q Nightclub & Lounge is muny owned and operated by the non-prof Gay & Lbian Communy of Rega (GLCR). Q Nightclub & Lounge Rega is the only...

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'THEY FEEL SAFE': GAY AND LBIAN COMMUNY OF REGA CELEBRAT 50TH ANNIVERSARY

For 50 years, the group that owns and operat Q Nightclub and Lounge has been providg a safe place for 2SLGBTQ+ members to socialize. The Gay and Lbian Communy of Rega (GLCR) was tablished 1972 to provi a safe space for the 2SLGBTQ+ muny orr to avoid persecutn and attacks. Fifty years later, * gay and lesbian community of regina *

The Gay and Lbian Communy of Rega (GLCR) was tablished 1972 to provi a safe space for the 2SLGBTQ+ muny orr to avoid persecutn and attacks. The Gay and Lbian Communy of Rega moved s social club to 2070 Broad St. The Rega Pri Commtee is an off-shoot of the Gay and Lbian Communy of Rega (GLCR), which got gog 1972.

44 YEARS OF THE GAY AND LBIAN COMMUNY OF REGA

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“I knew of a few ocsns where people had walked home the eveng om here and got a few blocks away and some people followg them, jumped out of their r, and beat them up, ” Oxelgren add that thankfully ’s not ol anymore to round-up a group of people and go beat up gays.

GAY AND LBIAN ACTIVISM

Hillabold said most of the bs owners were gay or lbian themselv. Gay and Lbian Activism. Gay pri para, Rega, 2003.

GAY AND LBIAN COMMUNY OF REGA

Saskatchewan is not a place one monly associat wh gay and lbian activism - and wh good reason, for, wh s small populatn base, larger percentage of ral and small-town dwellers, and ample number of relig adherents, would not appear to have the necsary gredients for such activism. Not only did Saskatchewan have pockets of activism and produce gay and lbian activists who would bee proment natnally, but for a time the mid-1970s, appeared that Saskatchewan would lead the way for Canadian regnn of sexual diversy. Formal gay activism, as opposed to rmal lbian and gay socializatn works, had existed sce the end of World War II and arrived the provce March 1971.

GAY & LBIAN COMMUNY OF REGA

Saskatoon's Gens Hellquist placed an advertisement for “Saskatoon Gay Liberatn” Vanuver's alternative publitn The Geia Straight.

This group, supplemented wh other members of Hellquist's social circle (a diverse group that clud Universy of Saskatchewan profsors, universy stunts, profsnals, and a few workg-class men and women) met to formally discs plans to anize the cy's gay muny. The discsns led to the creatn of the Zodiac Friendship Society, an umbrella anizatn that would be voted to gay polil issu (or “liberatn” as was known the 1970s), tn, unsellg and support groups, and, most popular of all, a social club - the Gemi Club.

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Gay and Lbian Communy of Rega – 211 Saskatchewan .

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