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The Calgary Underground Film Festival loves queer history! This year, their documentary festival running Novemberis featuring the Canadian Premiere of Flashback about the legendary gay bar in Edmonton that existed between and Flashback is the story of a defiant disco dance culture of sweat and sex and drugs and fashion.

Despite community hostility to queer people, Flashback became a sensation on the international club circuit facing police raids, threats of violence and the scourge of AIDS. Flashback is a ghost. However, it comes alive again in the memories of the people who were there and the legends they left behind.

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Flashback features more than calgary interviews recounting the story of the beloved gay bar: a tribute to a place where young people could just be themselves. The blue glow of the old Flashback sign now shines from a wall of the Neon Sign Museum in Edmonton, and its journey to restored glory is documented in the film. The Calgary Gay History Project is pleased to be a community partner for the screening.

Posted in Gay historyPress Release. Through the Multiverse: Queer Media Today. Presented by Dr. Registration is required, reception to follow. Beltline Gay History Walk. Spaces are limited. Program Pride Relaunch. Program Pride was a community access television gay in Alberta that ran from until A group of dedicated volunteers from Red Deer, Calgary and Edmonton created programming that ran on Shaw Cable in all bar cities.

Solid gold for Alberta historians! Our Past Matters Book Signing. Author Kevin Allen will be signing books in the afternoon between PM—or just come by for a visit! Posted in Gay history. Many groups struggling against bigotry clamour at downtown point in their history for segregated spaces. The feminist community in the 80s started experimenting with womyn-only spaces.

Calgary in the 90s had the Of Colour Collective, which was constituted by queers who were not white. Despite the then, recent decriminalization of homosexuality inbeing an out gay man or woman remained fraught with difficulties and real consequences. Its predecessor, thewas a mixed gay and straight disco, but when the gay community found out that they were the entertaining freak show which was bringing in the straights, they boycotted the club.

The was out of business in less than a month.