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Calgary, Alberta
Calgary's oldest gay bar on 17 Ave SW, known as 'The Bunker'
Texas Lounge is Calgary's oldest gay bar, serving the Beltline since 1987. Locals call it 'the Bunker' for its hidden entrance in the parking lot behind the 17th Avenue storefronts, and the interior lives up to the nickname: a compact, retro neighborhood dive that, despite the name, skips the cowboy kitsch entirely. Longtime owner Andrew Brassard, who also runs the attached Goliath's Bath House, has kept it going through decades of downturns and city change, and describes it as one of the last bars where strangers still actually talk to each other. That's the appeal. It's unpretentious, affordable, and built on regulars rather than spectacle, with weekly karaoke and the occasional drag bingo as the main events. For a visitor, it's the spot to feel the older, communal layer of Calgary's gay scene rather than its flashier nightclub side.
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