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December 2 Calgary After the manager […]

When

1978-12-02

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December 2 Calgary After the manager of the King's Arms Tavern ("The Pit") at the Palliser Hotel (133 Ninth Avenue S.W.) denied further service to about forty people seated in the "gay" section of the bar, six policemen arrived to assist him in evicting more than twenty patrons. The King's Arms had been popular with a regular gay clientele for years, but starting with a renovation of the tavern in May 1977, relations between patrons and management had deteriorated.

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Palliser HotelKing's Arms TavernCalgary

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Calgary Police Service

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Doug Young, "King's Arms Denies Service: Gay Customers React to Discrimination," Gay Calgary, 2, no. 4 (December 1978): 1.