03: The Castle - 750 Granville St - Vancouver Gay Walking Tour (sitios de interés)
Descripción del sitio
Continue east down Robson St towards Granville St. Turn left on Granville, cross the street and stop in front of what used to be 750 Granville St, now a nondescript black door next to the Salad Loop.
In the 1960s, the Castle Pub was an important gathering place for gay men seeking community. "But the owners had no tolerance for visible homosexuality," remembers Don Hann. "I was thrown out of it one Saturday afternoon in 1975 for kissing a gay man in the bar."
Throughout the '60s and '70s, the Castle struggled with its predominantly gay clientele, at times welcoming it, at times reviling it. In 1971, the Gay Liberation Front held a kiss-in in front of the pub; a year later, the Gay Alliance Toward Equality boycotted it. But the gay community always returned to claim its space, its members eager to meet other homos and make new friends.
In 1978, the Castle finally stopped fighting its destiny and hired Terry Wallace to manage the pub and embrace its gay clientele once and for all. For the next decade, the pub became an openly friendly, supportive gay space.
When the Castle finally closed in 1990, its gay patrons lovingly carried their portrait of the Queen in a now-famous procession three blocks south to 1025 Granville St. There, the Royal picked up where the Castle left off — until the gay community gradually drifted away to other bars and the Royal went straight in 2001.
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