GayHangouts

Here are a few hangouts for the Q community in Halifax

Current

• AlterEgosCafe? on Gottingen St.
• GlitterBeanCafe - Q owned and run coffee shop
• Dilly Dally Coffee Café, 6100 Quinpool Rd
• Night Spa, 2199 Gotting Street (members only)
• The Nook, 2118 Gottingen Street

Clubs

• If you're over 55-ish, or enjoy spending time with people who are, you might want to join the ElderBerries

Historical

• PerksCoffee
• The SecondCup on SpringGardenRoad
• CoburgCoffeeHouse
• StarBucks at Chapters
• UncommonGrounds

In the '60s

TheMeatRack / Lord Nelson Hotel ca. 1940

• TheMeatRack - the wall outside of the Lord Nelson Hotel
• The PeppermintLounge on Barrington near Duke
• The VictoryLounge? (street level at the Lord Nelson)
• JackWestsPinkFlamingo? restaurant in Bayers Road Plaza: KirbyGeddes? says it used to be a sort of place for gay men to meet, around 1954-1970.

In the '70s

• The DresdenArms1
• The Cameo or Candlelight Lounge 2 -- the lounge part of the Cameo Restaurant on Spring Garden3
• The GAE crowd hung out in the coffee shop of the Lord Nelson Hotel beside the Public Gardens. We often went there after meetings.
• The JuryRoom: popular hangout since at least 1969. In 1977 the management began barring g/l patrons. The community, led by GaeGala, demonstrated by holding sit-ins and picketing in May of that year. The Jury Room would continue to be contested ground well into the 1980s.
• The GardenViewRestaurant
• TheStockade near Windsor and Almon St... DanielMacKay says in 2002, "Where 'Nice Nights' Chinese Restaurant is, I think."
• Alma's Restaurant, in the basement of the GreenLantern building
• The LobsterTrap
• TheHeidelberg
• ApolloBath from the 1970s to 2005.

In the 80s

• CafeQuelqueChose, WONDERFUL gay owned and operated tasty novel exciting fun place.
• The ParadiseRestaurant, Hollis St just south of where Maritime Mall is now. Open 24 hours.
• PineausCafe - closed late 2006

In the 1990s

• Starting about 1994, online IrcChannel until early 2006
• CafeMokka - closed as of Aug 2002

In the 2000s

• SubRosa after hours club
• TimothysCafe? on SpringGardenRoad (was GrabbaJabba)
• AmadeusCafe
• KhyberClub
• MollyzDiner
• starting early 2006: online hangout switched to GayDotCom

In the 2010s

• TheCompanyHouse on Gottingen

In the 2020s

• HoldFastCafe in Halifax's north end

HistoryProjectTodoList:

• these need dates
• The info here should be merged with the historical part of GayBars.

Hanging out is one of many ways of MeetingPeople. This page is part of the HistoryProject.