Lost Spaces lost queer spaces
We started off talking about The Coral Reef, a lesbian bar in Ottawa that opened in the late 60s and closed in the year 2000, and a space where Ember went when she was a student in the city. As is the way with most of my interviews, though, the conversation morphed to discussing, in […]
Brandon Ash-Mohammed is a Toronto based comedian and event promoter. After graduating from comedy school (which is a real thing) he started to go out on the open mic scene, honing his stand up skills. One of the very first places he performed was Slacks, a lesbian bar in Toronto’s Village area, which was open […]
Listen & Subscribe for Free: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Google Podcasts | Everywhere Else Established in 2006 by Lynn McNeill and Will Munro, The Beaver was an alternative queer space in the heart of Queen West, Toronto. In 2020 the bar’s owners made the tough decision to close knowing that they wouldn’t be able to remain profitable […]
We caught up to discuss Just, a nightclub which was open between 1994-99. Expect to hear about guncles (which are, if you don’t know, gay uncles), ways to keep cool on the dancefloor, and a healthy debate about the age old conundrum – who is better, Kylie or Madonna? Find out more about Jamie’s band […]
To celebrate his new single, Local Gay Bookstore, we caught up to discuss his favourite lost bookstore, Lambda Rising in Washington, D.C. (as well as other book shops like Outwrite in Atlanta, and the distributor Goldenrod). Before you listen, I need to warn you – we go ALL about the houses, with a bit of […]
Darryl W. Bullock is the author behind books such as ‘David Bowie Made Me Gay: 100 Years of LGBT Music’ and ‘Florence Foster Jenkins:The Life of the World’s Worst Opera Singer’. We met up in a previous episode to discuss Crackers in Gloucester, and throughout the interview Darryl kept bringing up Bath Tap, a bar […]
