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Rumours, a new queer nightclub in Halifax, is celebrating its grand opening — nearly three decades after the iconic bar it's named for closed its doors. The new bar is not affiliated with the pioneering club, which was operated by the Gay and Lesbian Association of Nova Scotia from to , but aims to be a similarly central place for queer people. The old Rumours, which was first located on Granville Street before moving to the old Vogue Theatre on Gottingen Street, was one of the first gay bars Mccowan visited when he was coming out in He had to conceal his sexual identity at work, not only for fear of harassment or discrimination, but because he'd lose his job if the Canadian Armed Forces found out. But after a week in the straight world, he'd shake off the cobwebs, kick down the closet door and head downtown to dance. At a time when homophobia was rampant, Rumours offered that same feeling to so many others, said Lynn Murphy, a former chair of the gay and lesbian association and a member of the organization's civil rights committee. There was a lot of social negativity toward gay people and if you did go out together, you had to be careful not to do anything 'weird' like hold hands because other bars would not put up with that. Murphy said the old Rumours was unique at the time because it was owned and operated by the community, for the community, as one arm of a wider group aimed at bettering conditions for all queer people. You just stayed as far as you could in the closet," said Ross.

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Emma Sampson started dating her current boyfriend last February, right before the world went into lockdown due to the COVID pandemic. Sampson and her boyfriend, Josh, met each other at work. In the first lockdown, a world where you had to have an all-or-nothing approach to social contact, Sampson chose to quarantine with her new boyfriend. In June, they made it official and moved in together. Sampson, originally from Nova Scotia, moved to Ontario in the fall of

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Your definitive guide to a successful first date in Halifax

Dating as a millennial comes with its ups and downs but what happens when you decide to pack your bags, move to the other side of the world and experience the dating scene in Canada. It is not strange news that once you move to Canada your dating pool automatically shrinks particularly as an immigrant. This pushes you to build new connections and relationships in order to explore the dating scene in Canada.

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