Gay and Lbian Communy of Rega – 211 Saskatchewan

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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,

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

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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.

44 YEARS OF THE GAY AND LBIAN COMMUNY OF REGA

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... * gay and lesbian community of regina *

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.

GAY AND LBIAN ACTIVISM

“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. Hillabold said most of the bs owners were gay or lbian themselv.

GAY AND LBIAN COMMUNY OF REGA

Gay and Lbian Activism. Gay pri para, Rega, 2003. 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.

GAY & LBIAN COMMUNY OF REGA

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.

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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