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Patrons were treated to free shots whenever a train passed by. Here’s what’s hot in gay Orlando. There are bars and clubs well known. Down the street and around the corner from the Parliament House on Colonial Dr. North of PH on OBT was a tiny dive bar, Connections, situated along the railroad tracks just south of Fairvilla Megastore but on the opposite side of the street.

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Here’s what’s hot in gay Orlando. This was a very nice upscale fine dining establishment situated in the Longwood Village on SR at I This presented the first real head-to-head competition to the Parliament House at that time. While not making any attempt to present a historically or chronologically accurate timeline with regards to when these places operated it is my hope that these random recollections of the many gay watering holes which I was privileged to patronize back in the day, might be of some interest to my readers.

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No matter where you are staying in the Orlando area, . Complete, up-to-date, ranked list of all LGBT events and venues in Orlando. The independently-owned Saloon was connected to PH via an off-the-trail walkway, maintained for years as a courtesy to the patrons of both establishments. Guide to the best Orlando gay bars, clubs, parties and festivals. The choice is yours with diverse, welcoming fun for everyone. Plan your Orlando vacation with free resources, maps, virtual tours, one-on-one help and other resources.

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Empire Club offered lots of comfy sofa seating adjacent to the dance floor, with state-of-the-art lighting and a steady stream of techno, trance and house music of the gay anthem sort. But to the best of my recollection the first gay bar in Orlando was a second-floor, hole-in-the-wall drag bar located at Pine St.

Here one could bring in your own bottle of liquor and hand it over to the bartender who put your name on it, and thus when you ordered a drink it was being poured from your own previously purchased bottle and as such you were not making an illegal after-hours purchase of alcohol but rather you were being charged for the bar-provided mixers. There was another bar called Connection Not associated with the aforementioned Connections on the Trail which operated not far from what would eventually become Pulse nightclub.

A few blocks to the East on Orange Ave. Sam showed up as Miss Sammy for that one night and was so loved by the audience, they demanded her return, and thus an enduring drag legend was born. For persons of a certain age this column may serve as a walk down memory lane while younger readers may find it to be more of a tutorial on Orlando gay bar history.

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In either case, with our annual Come Out With Pride celebration fast approaching, I was struck with a wisp of nostalgia for a time when venturing out in O-Town for an evening of queer nightlife was filled with options and those options were scattered all over the greater Orlando landscape. Miniver was her actual first name but she went by her middle name, Sue. Faces was situated in the Lee Rd. Sue would later open a much larger, multi-level, multi-bar entertainment complex known as Key Largo which was situated way up the Orange Blossom Trail just south of Apopka.

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