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  • Monday, April 21
    Vancouver's feisty gay bookstore, Little Sisters, is for sale
    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...
    Posted to Qnews (Weblog) by NewsEditor on 04-21-2008
  • Monday, April 21
    Vancouver's feisty gay bookstore, Little Sisters, is for sale
    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...
    Posted to Qblog (Weblog) by external blog Qnews : nw:gaynews on 04-21-2008
  • Tuesday, March 04
    Montreal's Gay Village to get pedestrian street this summer
    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. Today's...
    Posted to Qnews (Weblog) by NewsEditor on 03-04-2008
  • Monday, February 04
    Efforts roll on to save shuttered gay bar in Laguna Beach
    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...
    Posted to Qnews (Weblog) by NewsEditor on 02-04-2008
  • Friday, December 07
    Internet killed the video bar: Gay neighborhoods disappear
    A series of related stories will sometimes cross the web-wires that we watch for Qnews without any obvious tie-in -- no book tour on the subject, no national news item to provide a hook for the local stories. So it was last weekend when at least three daily papers ran stories about apparently unrelated...
    Posted to Qblog (Weblog) by Robin Evans on 12-07-2007
  • Saturday, December 01
    Last call for Boston's gay neighborhood
    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...
    Posted to Qnews (Weblog) by NewsEditor on 12-01-2007
  • Friday, November 30
    Dallas gay bookstore closes and helps shutter the era of the gayborhood
    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...
    Posted to Qnews (Weblog) by NewsEditor on 11-30-2007
  • Wednesday, November 21
    Slog comment offers great bit of gay bar history from Daddy Jeff
    At Slog, Savage suggests that the space about to be vacated by the not-lamented Sugar might present a good location for the about to be evicted Pony -- which was, after all, created in the very short-term in that space that will be torn down. But, as often happens on Slog, the comments are as interesting...
    Posted to Qblog (Weblog) by Robin Evans on 11-21-2007
  • Tuesday, November 13
    Its uncommon mix of patrons mourn the loss of Jerusalem's only gay bar
    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...
    Posted to Qnews (Weblog) by NewsEditor on 11-13-2007
  • Friday, October 05
    Gay retirees in New Mexico worried over 'straight influx' | Telegraph
    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 in the New Mexico desert offering resort-style...
    Posted to Qnews (Weblog) by external blog RSS Feed from BlinkList.com on 10-05-2007
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