Halifax Rabow Encyclopedia: Gay Bars

Contents:

• GAYBARS
• GAY NOVA STIA TRAVEL GUI
• GAY HALIFAX TRAVEL GUI
• HAPPY OURS: A HISTORY OF LOL GAY BARS
• GAY HALIFAX
• FRONTPAGE

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The first “officially gay” gay bar Halifax was Thee Klub.

Gay bars weren’t always about big nights out—they were also a tool of social change. The Gay Alliance for Equaly opened and operated The Turret bar on the third floor of the former Khyber buildg.

Rumours closed 1995, when the GAE—renamed the Gay And Lbian Alliance—went bankpt.

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Before there were specifilly “gay” bars Halifax, queer people had to rely on after-hours clubs.

FRONTPAGE

Halifax’s first official gay bar. The Turret was a bar owned and operated by the Gay Alliance for Equaly (later the Gay And Lbian Alliance) the former Khyber buildg at 1588 Barrgton Street. It is now the olst gay bar Halifax still operatn.

Toolbox East was a named for a gay bar Toronto which self closed 2004.

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