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After years of stg abandoned on Church Street, the buildg that once hoed one of Toronto's most inic gay nightclubs uld soon transform i... * toronto gay bars 1980s *

Joseph Street is now a ndo, but was once 500-person pacy gay mec wh a uple of lounge areas and a very, very active dance floor.

This Gloucter street nightclub is now closed but is where you uld fd some of Toronto's most big-budget drag shows, big-name circu DJs and a mostly gay, but very welg crowd of dancers over two floors. Saturdays were the big night here and was a huge h bee as the warehoe scene fad, Joy filled the void for gays, drag queens, scenters and cur straight people. In this edn of her nightlife-history seri, Denise Benson tak back to the after-hours nightclub that helped mobilize Toronto’s gay-rights movement the 1980s.

History: In 1980s’ Toronto, street rners and dance clubs still served as sential meetg spots for gays and other margalized muni. On the outer edg of the Church and Wellley-centred gay village, the rner was close to popular homo hnts cludg Yonge Street’s St.

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Nearby bathho were plentiful, Queen’s Park was still a major pick-up spot, and easy bar-hoppg meant that gay men had lots of optns even those pre-Grdr days.

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“The Yonge and Isabella area was really amazgly gay, ” rells event producer Maxwell Blandford, once a key figure adventurome Toronto clubs and now based Miami.

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Toronto’s Gay Communy Dance Commtee fund lbian and gay liberatn anizg an unkd era that ma muny work not only difficult, but creasgly necsary. * toronto gay bars 1980s *

That club gave way to notorly tough gay-and-straight dance club Oz, which boasted entrance hallways signed to look like yellow brick roads. “Komrads, wh s shy, stals-steel dancefloor, hi-tech sound and lightg—cludg pk and purple neon lights—was a h, and the talk of Toronto’s gay muny when opened Augt of 1985.

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