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Wednesday, July 23
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Source: Montreal Gazette , Xtra The main street through Montreal's gay village is closed to traffic, and open to strollers and cafe tables all summer long photo: by Ralph Higgins for Xtra Montreal's gay village is more vibrant this year than ever before since the city closed St Catherine St -- the main artery of the Village -- to automobile traffic. From June 20 to September 2, over a dozen blocks have been converted to one giant pedestrian mall, Xtra reports. Creation of the pedestrian-friendly, no-car zone has been a resounding success so far, Montreal Gazette reports. The Village is...
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Monday, April 21
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Source: Canadian Press VANCOUVER — They've been bombed three times, received death threats and stood before the red-robed justices of the Supreme Court of Canada. No, Jim Deva and Bruce Smyth are not killers or terrorists. The soft-spoken Vancouver men sell books. And in some peoples' eyes, Deva says, that made the gay owners of Little Sister's Book & Art Emporium dangerous. "Because we were (openly gay) and we were very, very blatant about being open . . . we were threatening to homophobes," Deva says. Only two years after the store opened in 1983, the owners took on...
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Tuesday, March 04
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Source: Montreal Gazette Montreal's Gay Village will be the site of the city's longest pedestrian mall this summer, after city officials announced this morning that Ste. Catherine St. will be closed to motorized traffic between Berri St. and Papineau Ave. from June 17 to Sept. 3. Qnews update: Montreal's Gay Village takes on extra party atmosphere with street closure [23July08] Today's announcement, made by Ville Marie borough mayor Benoit Labonté and Denis Brossard of the Gay Village's commercial development corporation, caps weeks of planning and consultations with local businesses...
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Monday, February 04
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Source: Press release and Gay Wired It is a fight that has raged on nearly as long as the war in Iraq, but the battle in this instance is not against terrorism but to save one of Laguna Beach’s oldest gay watering holes, the landmark Coast Inn and Boom Boom Room which has now been closed for nearly five months. Thought to have been the oldest continuously operating gay bar in the U.S., the Boom Boom Room began life in the 1920s as a serviceman’s bar before showing its true colors -- and attracting a predominantly LGBT clientele -- in the 1940s. As reported earlier by GayWired.com , although the...
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Monday, February 04
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Source: KIRO 7 News SEATTLE -- Two men were attacked on Capitol Hill early Saturday morning nearly the corner of Denny Way and Olive Way, reported KIRO 7 Eyewitness News. The men said they believe they were targeted because they are gay. Link: KIRO7 video of report The attack comes just two days after King County prosecutors and neighborhood activists announced a publicity campaign to raise awareness of possible hate crimes in the neighborhood. [ see seaQwa Qnews summary ] Thomas Colonna and Brad Crelia told KIRO that they were about a block from home when a car nearly ran them over. They said...
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Saturday, February 02
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Source: Seattle Post Intelligencer and Seattle Times During a press conference at Gay City offices, King County Prosecutor displays the new hate crimes awareness poster being put up around Capitol Hill. photo: Ken Lambert, Seattle Times Mike Hogan, a deputy King County prosecutor, walked into a pet store on Capitol Hill on Friday and asked to put up a poster in the window. "We're going to make the bad people go away," he said. Hogan and other volunteers began putting up the posters, which were unveiled at a Friday news conference, in the neighborhood in response to a spate of anti...
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Friday, January 11
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Source: Gay.com Gay.com offers a wide-ranging survey of New York City's gay history in this article from the Spring issue of OutTraveler magazine . A brief sample: Forget Studio 54, Party Monster or even Stonewall. One of the queerest eras in New York City's history was the Roaring '20s and early '30s, when pansy balls were all the craze, cross-dressing performers were gloriously famous and the sparkling isle that was the Sodom of America was already a major gay travel destination. Traveling in the echoes of this fabulous Manhattan past in the 21st century is easier than you may...
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Saturday, December 29
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Source: East Valley Tribune and Arizona Republic Scottsdale, Ariz. -- Anderson’s Fifth Estate, which had a 25-year run as a downtown Scottsdale nightclub and was most recently known for its ban on transgendered patrons, is now a gay dance club. Club Forbidden will open its doors tonight in the same building that once housed the rock, comedy and dance club at 6820 E. Fifth Ave. “This will be more like a New York nightclub and I couldn’t do that under Anderson’s Fifth Estate,” owner Tom Anderson said. Anderson, who recently lifted his ban on transgendered customers and settled a discrimination dispute...
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Friday, December 28
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Source: Minneapolis Star-Tribune While drinking never gets old, where we do it changed a bit in 2007. When you look at this year's best new bars, nightclubs didn't dominate as they have in the past. While two newbies stayed busy, the club scene as a whole sagged, according to some club owners. Oversaturation, anyone? But that's where the year's surprises come in -- and there were several. First off, the gay bar scene, which had seen several closings in the past couple years, was rejuvenated with three new spots. PI BAR AND RESTAURANT -- This lesbian bar filled a void left by the...
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Wednesday, December 26
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Source: Trenton Star-Ledger When the House of Jourdan's gala fundraiser showed up on the 6 o'clock news seven years ago, anchormen smirked at footage of strutting drag queens and gay men "voguing," a dance popularized by Madonna. There were voter registration tables and an array of HIV-prevention information at the ball. But the cameras ignored those things. "They just showed us as wild freaks dancing," recalls Bernard McAllister, CEO of the house. These days, the House of Jourdan and seven other gay "houses" in Newark are finally getting respect. The city's...
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Monday, December 24
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Source: Houston Chronicle , KHOU TV , News 8 Austin GALVESTON, Texas -- With its laid-back lifestyle and low cost of living, Galveston promises to become the gay tourist mecca and residential center of the South, said activist-publisher Laura Villagran, who earlier this month opened the city's first gay and lesbian visitor's center. Long known for its vibrant bar scene and raucous Splash Day celebrations, Galveston in recent years has become home to a growing gay and lesbian professional class. Now, real estate agents say, the city is poised to become a retirement haven for graying gays...
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Thursday, December 06
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Source: Seattle Times A Capitol Hill institution important to Seattle's lesbian, gay, transgender and bisexual community is in financial trouble and likely will close by year's end at its current location. The Seattle LGBT Community Center , which last year stepped forward to keep a gay Pride march and festival on Capitol Hill after the traditional sponsors moved the annual event downtown, is struggling to pay its suppliers. The revelations cap a year that witnessed the financial troubles of Seattle Out and Proud, another gay-focused nonprofit group and the traditional sponsor of Seattle's...
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Saturday, December 01
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Source: Boston Globe THE FIRST THING I ever did to identify myself as a gay man - before coming out to a friend or relative, before putting a rainbow-flag pin on my jacket - was to walk into a gay bar. This was not so unusual in the early 1990s, when few gay men identified as such before they left high school. Some of us needed to walk around the block four or five times before finally pushing open a dimly lit, unmarked door. At the time, there were plenty of dimly lit doors in Boston. The Napoleon Club was a piano bar near Park Square that attracted theater students and older men who left big...
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Friday, November 30
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Source: Dallas Morning News If, as expected, Crossroads Market closes in the next few weeks, Phil Johnson has to remind himself that the cause of its death is something its founders always wanted. Opened originally as a junk store, Crossroads Market served as much as a community center as a business. The epicenter of gay activism in Dallas, the bookstore was a place where political candidacies were born and AIDS relief was organized. Its founders included a who's-who of early Dallas gay leaders including William Waybourn, Craig Spaulding, Terry Tebedo, Bill Nelson and Mr. Johnson. "It...
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Friday, November 30
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Source: Seattle Post-Intelligencer Wearing sparkles in his faux hawk for the occasion, David Briggs shook one of the last cocktails behind the bar at Manray on Thursday night. Though the bar will be open for a short time Friday evening -- "until the liquor runs out," Briggs said -- this was the going-away party. Or goodbye party. Briggs, the manager at the Capitol Hill bar, wasn't quite sure. "I know. What is it?" he said. "Good-something. There's nothing good about it." It's the last in a week of last calls for the block on East Pine Street, between Belmont...
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Wednesday, November 21
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Source: Seattle Post-Intelligencer A nightclub where three people were shot early Monday was already facing sanctions against its liquor license for repeatedly allowing minors into the bar, according to the state Liquor Control Board. Seattle police were investigating the 1:30 a.m. shooting inside Sugar Nightclub at 916 E. Pike St. The shots were fired after a fight on the dance floor and left three wounded: a 22-year-old man shot in the abdomen, a 20-year-old man shot in the wrist and an 18-year-old girl shot in the leg, police said. The shooter fled before police arrived. Mayor Greg Nickels pledged...
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Saturday, November 17
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Source: Associated Press via Oakland Press FERNDALE, Mich. (AP) Craig Covey thinks Ferndale is setting a positive example by being so accepting of the sizable gay population in the city and its growing role in government. "We are showing the region a new way," Covey said. "This city embraces diversity, smart growth, efficiency, bipartisan compromise and eco-friendly policies." This was evident Nov. 6, when residents voted Covey, a longtime City Council member, to be Ferndale's first openly gay mayor. Covey, 50, said that sexual orientation is no longer a primary factor in...
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Tuesday, November 13
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Source: Times (London) For four years it stood as an oasis of tolerance in Jerusalem: a place where drag queens, ultra-Orthodox Jews and Palestinians could hang out, dance and drink pints, side by side. But Shushan, the city’s only gay and lesbian bar, has closed, leaving its loyal patrons with a deep sense of loss. “Shushan was one of the few places where we could feel that we were in a free world,” said Yan Carmel, 21, a Hebrew University student who is a member of a gay youth coalition. In this conservative holy city, where a gay pride parade can bring rare unity to angry bearded religious leaders...
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Sunday, November 11
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Source: Haaretz After four years in operation, the Shushan Pub, the only one for Jerusalem's gay and lesbian community, has closed down. "Shushan is the only place in Israel where the Haredi [ultra-Orthodox], Arabs, religious and secular could sit together and have a good time," says pub owner Saar Netanel, who also serves on the Jerusalem city council for the left-wing party Meretz. "When they left Shushan, each returned to his own ghetto." One of the workers continues: "Haredim would come here mainly on Mondays and Fridays. There were not many of them, but it was...
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Monday, November 05
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Source: StudentDirect.co.uk From Manchester's 2007 Gay Pride photo: UK IndyMedia Manchester -- “I CAME to Manchester to be gay,” says Katy, a third year from Yorkshire. Home to classic TV drama ‘Queer as Folk’, a popular Pride event and a gay scene that rivals Brighton or San Francisco, it’s no surprise that Manchester has earned a reputation as a city where students feel safe to express their sexuality. Two years ago, Manchester Metropolitan University was voted the most gay-friendly university in the country. Aside from it’s being happily situated a stone’s throw away from Manchester’s Gay...
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Wednesday, October 31
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Source: Salt Lake Tribune Salt Lake City, Utah -- Salt Lake City mayoral contenders Ralph Becker and Dave Buhler have sparred over a number of issues on the 2007 campaign trail: the environment, education, public safety and so on. But a new topic shook up one of their final debates Tuesday night. In a live debate hosted by The Salt Lake Tribune and KUTV Channel 2 one week before Election Day, the candidates were asked if they would support a "gayborhood" taking root in the Marmalade district that boasts gay-owned businesses, according to a recent issue of Q Salt Lake magazine, which caters...
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Tuesday, October 30
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Source: New York Times Flickr photo by bobster1985 These are wrenching times for San Francisco’s historic gay village, with population shifts, booming development, and a waning sense of belonging that is also being felt in gay enclaves across the nation, from Key West, Fla., to West Hollywood, as they struggle to maintain cultural relevance in the face of gentrification. There has been a notable shift of gravity from the Castro, with young gay men and lesbians fanning out into less-expensive neighborhoods like Mission Dolores and the Outer Sunset, and farther away to Marin and Alameda Counties...
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Thursday, October 25
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Source: Seattle PI Shortly before 4 a.m. on the morning of Sept. 22, Marcus Wilson called 911, reporting that a man on a Capitol Hill street threatened to kill him because he is gay. It was the latest of seven incidents in Seattle since June -- five of them in Seattle's traditionally gay neighborhood -- in which the victims said they were threatened or attacked at least in part because of their gay sexual orientation. While that number of incidents citywide isn't larger than usual, it has alarmed some in the gay community. Michael Hogan, the King County deputy prosecutor specializing in...
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Friday, October 05
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Residents of a gay retirement community in America are worried the special ambiance of their "private oasis" could be ruined by an influx of straight people. RainbowVision, billed as the "first community of its kind", opened last year...
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