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Site 3: Park Square (Intersection of Arlington and Stewart streets and Columbus Avenue) Its legacy lives on, though, in the Napoleon Room, a piano bar and lounge in ClubCafé, a GLBT restaurant and club on Columbus Avenue. The Napoleon Club closed in 1998 and much of the contents of the establishment put up to auction. Regular crooners were joined by such luminaries as Liberace and the Queen of Queens herself, Judy Garland, who visited the club every night for a week shortly before her death in 1969. It wasn't until 1952, though, when under new ownership Napoleons became a gay bar and eventually a piano bar. The Napoleon Club opened as a speakeasy in 1929 and later operated as a private club with a sizeable gay clientele. Site 2: Napoleon Club (52 Piedmont Street) That Jacques recognizes a negotiation committee to implement these demands and others that come up in the future.That we have control of the music played in Jacques that we be allowed to choose records to go the jukebox.That we be allowed to disseminate literature of interest to the gay community inside the bar.
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This was a distinctly political event that was preceded by a full week of workshops on various issues affecting the emerging gay community, such as coming out and gay spirituality. Taking on the mainstream open format genre, Pearl operated until January of 2011 for its current renovation.The first official Gay Pride March in Boston was held on Saturday, June 26, 1971. This was the first time in which the venues downstairs split and Underbar opened and separated from Pearl. The most recent incarnation as of late was Pearl which opened in 2006.
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Matrix remained operating as one of the most popular and consistent venues in the city until closing in 2006. Open 7 nights a week with a line down the street to fill one of the longest running clubs in Boston history which stayed open until 2001.Īfter a serious renovation in February 2001, the new venue called Matrix opened as a mainstream top 40 and house music club doing very successful with one of the most recognized and well known names in Boston DJ Adilson every Friday night. Originally opening as Jukebox back in 1982, the basement was home to the hottest nightclub in Boston at that time. Legacy Boston is located at 275 Tremont Street which has been home to some of the most legendary venues in Boston nightlife in the last 20 years.