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Bars & clubs / Palmer Park / 7 Mile & Woodward

Heaven

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Legendary 1980s after-hours gay club on Woodward, remembered as a birthplace of Detroit's queer house-music scene.

01 / The story of this place

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Heaven was an after-hours gay club upstairs from The Gas Station bar at 19106 Woodward Avenue, just north of 7 Mile. In the 1980s its crowd was largely gay men of color, and the club became legendary as one of the places where Detroit's queer house-music scene was born. Its closing year is not recorded, but its legacy lives on: the Club Heaven sound system is now preserved by the Detroit Sound Conservancy.

  1. 1980s after-hours club above The Gas Station bar
  2. Remembered as a cradle of queer Detroit house
  3. Sound system kept by the Detroit Sound Conservancy
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03 / Events

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