Salt Lake City’s LGBTQ+ Communities and the Pioneer Park Neighborhood

Salt Lake West Side Stories: Post Thirty-Twoby Brad Westwood Although the LGBTQ+ community had other prior informal social gathering spots elsewhere in Salt Lake City, a number of taverns and gathering places, located in the Pioneer Park neighborhood, served as new, more publicly known, places to gather across Utah’s post-1970s, emerging LGBTQ+ communities. In 1970, just one year after New …