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  • History of Edmonton’s Gay Bars, Part 4: The Expanding Scene

    Ron Byers and Rob Browatzke

    Read Part 1: The Beginning, Part 2: A Flashback to Flashback & Part 3: The Long-Running here. A Kaleidoscope of…

  • History of Edmonton’s Gay Bars, Part 2: A Flashback to Flashback

    Ron Byers and Rob Browatzke

    Read Part 1: The Beginning In the summer of 1975, Pat F., Johnny K., Harvey J., Paul Chisholm (more popularly…

  • History of Edmonton’s Gay Bars, Part 1: The Beginning

    Ron Byers and Rob Browatzke

    Same-sex relations have been a part of life on the expansive prairies since time immemorial. Some Indigenous Nations have long…

  • Womonspace: Creating Space for Edmonton’s Lesbian Community in the 1980s

    Josephine Boxwell

    Womonspace was a social and recreational group for lesbians founded in 1981. Part of Edmonton’s LGBTQ landscape for over thirty…

  • Nellie Carlson and the Indian Rights for Indian Women movement

    Bruce Cinnamon

    Disclaimer: Due to the importance around the legal designation of Indian status, this article sometimes uses the term “Indian” to…

  • 10024-102 Street: Rony’s / Dapple Gray Cafe / Appleby / Cheddars / Cafe Elite

    Darrin Hagen

    The central downtown neighbourhood south of Jasper Avenue but north of the river valley was a small but busy hub…

  • Ah-Yin’s Chinese Persons’ Street or Amy’s Chinatown

    Amy Wong

    I want to share my personal history of growing up in one of Edmonton’s Chinatowns in the 1970s. The Chinatown,…