Charles Tavern (with the slogan “meet me under the clock” – the clock which can still be seen during renovations on Yonge St.) offered spaces where gays and lesbians would meet in secret. Places like The Continental, Letros Nile Room, and the St. Prior to that people were limited to public parks, washrooms, and “low-key” bars and clubs in which there was always the danger of being found out. Gay bars in Toronto as we know them didn’t really exist until the 1970s.