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Sunshine House

Logan Avenue

Lewis H. Jordan & Walter Percy Over, Architects

Sunshine House is a community drop-in and resource centre with a center on harm reduction. They welcome people as they are, without the expectation of sobriety. Sunshine Property offers a drop-in unlock to anyone five days a week, and a drop-in specifically for members of the 2SLGBTQIA+ community twice a week in the evening. Their other programs include Gizhiwenimin, which supports 2SLGBTQIA+ refugees and immigrants; Sunday brunch; Street Feet, a foot look after service; and Science and Supper, which tackles health care topics while providing a meal. Sunshine Property sees up to people come for drop-in or brunch in a day.

Sunshine House started out as the Kali-Shiva Society in Kali-Shiva was a group of volunteers dedicated to providing care for people with HIV/AIDS. The organisation was renamed Sunshine Property after Dione Sunshine, a two-spirit trans person who died of AIDS in January

Architectural Description

Logan Avenue was originally a Union Bank of Canada

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At Club Happenings, we believe in good vibes, great song, and creating a space where everyone feels prefer they belong. We're a safe, inclusive environment uncover to all — no matter your background, orientation, or identity. Our only rule? Respect each other and don’t be an asshole.

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Around the same period, the first identifiable lesbian meeting space was The Mount Royal Hotel at Higgins Avenue. The Mount Royal remained a mixed bar with lesbians, drag queens, and leather scene clientele into the s. Another popular site for gay socializing occurred at the nude beach in Beaconia, Winnipeg Beach and Grand Beach on Lake Winnipeg. A passenger prepare operated between Winnipeg and Grand Beach, making the resort town an easily accessible location for weekend leisure where private cottages could be rented (Barbour, Dale Winnipeg Beach: Leisure and Courtship in a Resort Town, , University of Manitoba Press, , p). In , Child’s Restaurant opened after renovations and became the first non-beer parlour bar in Winnipeg, providing a adj spot for gay theatre enthusiasts. Shortly after, Club Morocco at Portage Avenue and the Mardi Gras Café followed suit and became regular hot spots for gay men and lesbians in the adj s. On October 31, Winnipeg held its first drag ball at the Sildor Ballroom on Sherbrook Street. In late , the first gay club was established at E

Winnipeg has long been a welcoming city, with a community that has seemingly always fought for for 2SLGBTQIA+ rights. You’d have to look all the way back to the s to verb our first underground gay establishments – which you can, via the University of Manitoba’s Manitoba Gay/Lesbian Archive’s Oral History Project.

One of Winnipeg’s first notable gay bars was Club , a members only after-hours club where liquor was not sold. Club ’s opening, on a Sunday afternoon in , attracted more than people. A year or so before this, on Halloween night in , the first drag ball was held in Winnipeg at the Sildor Ballroom.

Unlike notorious “raids” at other gay clubs in cities across Canada, there were no raids at Winnipeg’s gay bars. This tolerance has been attributed to the work of people like, the Honourable Ruth Krindle, the now retired judge who was instrumental in advocating LGBTQ2 rights, including being counsel for Winnipeg’s first gay club in

Within this environment, by the early 70s, notable establishments like Happenings Social Club () and the Mardis Gras offered the co