Gay clubs salt lake

Salt Lake West Side Stories: Post Thirty-Two
by Brad Westwood

Although the LGBTQ+ community had many prior informal political and social gathering spots elsewhere in Salt Lake City, a number of bars and taverns located in the Pioneer Park neighborhood served as a place to gather for Salt Lake City’s emerging LGBTQ+ communities.

In 1970, just one year after New York City’s Stonewall Riots sparked national lgbtq+ and lesbian movements, Perky’s, which advertised as a prevent for women but discreetly served Salt Lake City’s woman-loving woman population, opened its doors on North Temple Street. Perky’s was eventually torn down to produce way for the rebuilding of the I-15 North Temple overpass. The aged west Salt Lake City was also the home of other LGBTQ+ gathering places, including the Rose Tavern opened in the first 1970s and whose name was eventually changed to the Rail; the Uptown opened in 1976 at 1500 South and 400 West; Studio 8 opened during the mid-1970s at 800 West and 200 South; and the Comeback Club opened in 1977, located at 551 South and 300 West, which also became a popular gathering place for members of Salt Lake’s LGBTQ+.

Like other established communities, the Pioneer Park LGB