Trade on the corner of 2nd South and 6th West. When the InBetween first opened, hookers were still regularly plying their The old red-light and warehouse district of 2nd South between 5th West and 6th West section of SLC, the Gay bars were pushed further across the tracks into When some oil rich Arab decided to buy up property in what was then the It was dark, creepy, and scary but it kept the heterosexualsĪway. Section between 3rd West and 4th West near the basically abandoned Union Was anchored by The Sun in the seedy South Temple In the mid 1980's The Cavern existed for about five minutes
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The Rail at 363 West South Temple is apart of Which changed to Reflections Good Time Place at 315 West 400 South sits vacant. Aggies and Bogarts in Sugar House is no more. Lesbian Bar, is now the location of Mischevious, an adult novelty store with Your Place or Mine, (aka Your Face or Mine) which was a īackStreet- now that was a fun bar! Many an excellent Royal Court show or community show was Kings then Axis but now is some other straight dance club adjacent to the Gate Way. īackstreet which opened in 1984 at 108 South 500 West became Club 108 then The InBetween became Bricks, became mixed, then straightĪnd has gone through many incarnations since becoming currently Club " Sound ". The legendary Sun wasĭestroyed by a tornado and is now a vacant lot. The name made me laughĪnd reminded me of the many Bull Dykes I once knew there. The Rusty Bell became the premier Lesbian Bar of theġ980's, Puss and Boots is now a Mexican outlet store on Redwood Road. Lounge which has fallen in dispute and some would suggest that it stop being None of the Salt Lake City bars that existed for the GayĬommunnity in the 1970’s and 1980's still exist accept for the Radio City On Gay dance clubs have all but eliminated a sense of belonging to a Bar subĬulture that reflects Gay Sensibilities. Tuesday or whatever at straight bars, or the hoards of heterosexuals who decend The laughter and camaraderie of others could heighten the sense of being alone.īut still it was better than the outside world. In a Gay bar you knew you were not aloneĮven though often Gay bars could be the loneliest place for the uninitiated. Bars were the community centers, where the exchange of ideas on what Insulated world of Gay men bars, and Lesbian Bars, where a sense of safety and retreatįrom a hostile world was as much a part of the bar experience as anything else,Īre over. Than a place to get a drink or party on a weekend have come to a close. [The days when Gay bars were much, much more The Sun Tavern was Utah 's first Gay owned bar to be homosexual oriented at The Sun Tavern was on the northwest corner of Has since been demolished for the Larry Miller Jazz Arena Complex.
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The Sun in the former Railroad Exchange Tavern at 1 South 400 West. 1973 Joe Redburn, a talk show host for KTALK opens a Gay Bar called