For the first time in Edmonton for the first time, there will be two gay bars this summer.
Evolution Wormentlounge will open a new place on Jasper Avenue and 115 Street, because the places located in the city center in the city center near 103 avenues.
“It was forced to start looking around because we do not find this place, so let’s like both and lent,” Evolution WorldLounge Co-owner Rob Browatzke told Global news.
The new bar will be able to capture the Judge Premium Lounge & cuisine that seated empty since January.
Browatzke said he received a call from the landlord where the earth was available. The new space will be called ‘evo’ and comes with new opportunities.
Wîhkwêntôwin will provide two floors for food and events.
Evo, Jasper Avenue and 115 Street, previously seized the space occupied by Reign Premium Lounge and the kitchen and offers two floors for food and events.
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Evo, happy clock cocktails, supper menu, and plans to open a typical nightclub to expand and expand the night program to enter bingo nights, Bingo nights and karaoke.
Browratzke hopes that it is a larger customer base.
“When we first opened in 2013, we always want to do. We were seven days and happy hours a week and people did not want to go out to the basement.”
“Shows that the dancing and people associate with evolution, Wonderlounge will not be watched to a new space until the other venue is closed,” he said.
Evo, Jasper Avenue and 115 Street, previously seized the space occupied by Reign Premium Lounge and the kitchen and offers two floors for food and events.
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The existing evolutionary area has repeatedly been the target of vandalism.
On December 22, 2024, police, directly from the poster of a man, directly on the “Trans Children” poster, said the 2slgbtq + night club exterior window.
Evolution WorcingLounge’s window was adopted in Downtown in December 2024 in Edmonton.
Credit: Evolution Wonderlounge
In April 2024, police said that 3 people were removed from a pride flag and thrown in a nearby trash.
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In January 2023 and 2023, between 2023, he was engaged in six different glasses and windows.
“The construction and crime in the region began to take a little bit,” Browatzke said.
Ron Byers, Director of Rainbow Story Hub, is an important stage in opening a queer bar at the street level.
“Most of them remained in the basement or in the second floor. Very few were the main floor. Because of the fear of being found,” he said.
Byers, the first gay stick was opened in 1970 and lasted a year after the Canadian government’s homosexuality.
According to him, most likely members of the majority (as modern lifestyle clubs) were personal clubs that demanded it and it was more difficult to enter into these enterprises.
“If you try to get on your own, if you are not allowed or a possible threat, if it is a danger, nor did you do it in the door to determine whether it is,” he said.
If the 2slgbtq + society is more adopted, especially for people who come to terms with sexuality, they need a place dedicated to them.
“Ordinary bars and restaurants are more accessible to the strange community, but there is still a need. People prefer to be comfortable in the eyes of the public and they prefer to be an environment with people like them.
Browatzke, the Government of the year agrees to the existing political climate of Alberta, which affects the trans and gender of the trans and gender.
“Politics is currently anti-queer anti-transboving procrastination, and thus such gaps become more important. The street level and something that seems to be, it will be interesting and attractive to society,” he said.
The evolution has been going on for 12 years and has been the only gay stick in Edmonton since 2016 Buddys Nite Club and Woody’s video bar 117 streets were closed on Jasper Avenue.
The downtown location will not be closed until October, so the city will see two gay bars that last a long time.
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