Prominent meeting spaces like the beer parlour of the Marlborough Hot el to cruising sites like the Canadian National rail yards at the forks of the Assiniboine and Red Rivers and the docks on Alexander Street feature in the stories recorded in the Manitoba Gay/Lesbian Archives' Oral History Project (1990).
The earliest records of a homosexual community in Winnipeg date back to the inter-war period of the 1920s, as told through oral histories by those who experienced it. View from East Portage Avenue bus terminal