The coolest new spot in Toronto isn’t a bar, or a club, but an old army navy hall, affectionately known as the Owl’s Club. Every Sunday night, queer cuties and their ally pals stampede down the stairs and into the basement space to gather together and ..
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Down in L.A., friends had been pestering her to check out Stud Country, a local queer line-dance event.
When Munroe eventually did, she says it was magical. “I was immediately drawn in by the community and, unexpectedly, by line dancing. I don’t always gravitate toward organized fun and have no meaningful dance background,” says Munroe.
“The most I can usually do is quietly marvel at people doing choreography on dance floors. The spirit of line dance — a type of social dance — is open, it’s absolutely not rigid; it’s more about sharing space than perfecting moves. And it looks so cool, too.
” That first night, Munroe and her wife, Sophie, went home at midnight, cleared the coffee table from the living room and just kept dancing. She was hooked. When Munroe returned to Toronto, she found fun queer events and fun country-inspired events, but nothing that embodied the spirit she missed.
So she joined up with a few folks to start a special night in Montreal, then another in Toronto at the Owl’s Club. Spurs was an immediate hit; the very first event was over capacity, and the Toronto iteration celebrates its one-year ann.
