Best gay bar in vancouver

Though the rainbow-adorned Davie Village now beats proudly and openly as the heart of gay Vancouver, it wasn&#;t always so.

Bars, clubs, bathhouses and other homosexual spaces only began congregating on Davie St in the early s. Before that, they silently dotted the streets of the downtown core, concentrated particularly on and around Richards and Seymour Sts, between Robson and the Granville Bridge.

In was into this world that Don Hann stepped in the initial s.

Like many youthful gay men and lesbians at the time, Hann moved to Vancouver in search of others like himself. He soon settled in the nearby, residential West End, which was already emerging as Vancouver&#;s lgbtq+ ghetto.

Finding the bars meant finding himself.

&#;These public spaces gave me a vision of being part of a much larger community,&#; he says. &#;This sexual orientation was not only mine.&#;

Until he discovered the bars, Hann lived alone, isolated and closeted. In an age when homosexuality was barely legal and society made no effort to disguise its disgust, those early gathering spaces gave him a place to openly con