Bayne Pettger, NHL's first openly gay hockey player agent, says the league's recent cisn to ban teams om donng Pri jerseys uld alienate the queer muny and disurage their participatn and support the game.
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- IN CANADA, GAY PRI IS MANDATORY
- CALLG PRI JERSEYS A DISTRACTN IS SENDG THE WRONG MSAGE, SAYS NHL'S FIRST OPENLY-GAY AGENT
- VANUVER GAY PRI
IN CANADA, GAY PRI IS MANDATORY
It is an opportuny to regnize, celebrate, and learn more about the untls ntributns Two-Spir, lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, queer, tersex, and addnal sexually and genr-diverse inti (2SLGBTQI+) Canadians have ma to the Department of Natnal Defence (DND), the Canadian Armed Forc (CAF), and to the untry.
Pri events North Ameri trace their origs back to the Stonewall rts of June 28, 1969, when members of the LGBT muny protted a police raid at the Stonewall Inn, a gay club New York Cy.
It was on May 14, 1969, that Canada crimalized homosexual acts between nsentg adults. Two years later, on Augt 28, 1971, about 100 people gathered on Parliament Hill for Canada’s first Gay Liberatn Prott and March, where anizers prented a petn to the ernment wh a list of ten mands for equal rights and protectns.
CALLG PRI JERSEYS A DISTRACTN IS SENDG THE WRONG MSAGE, SAYS NHL'S FIRST OPENLY-GAY AGENT
On October 22, 1977, fifty police officers wh guns raid two gay bars Montreal and arrted 146 patrons, primarily gay men. Another large-sle clash between police and prottors occurred after police raid four gay bathho Toronto on Febary 5, 1981. On the feral level, a step towards equaly was ma on October 27, 1992, when the Feral urt lifted the ban on homosexual persons servg the ary, endg what was known as the “LGBT Purge”.
Pri, as we know today, was born on the one-year anniversary of the Stonewall the time, same-sex relatns were illegal and gay bars like the Stonewall Inn provid a rare refuge where people uld eely exprs themselv and fd muny. Some of the world’s most popular LGBTQ Pri ftivals take place Canada, cludg what’s sometim scribed as the largt, Toronto Pri (see my Toronto Gay Gui for tips and what to see and do this vibrant cy).
VANUVER GAY PRI
Pictured above, the ftive Gay Village Montréal is at the heart of that cy’s lively Pri ftival each Augt, photo by Andrew CollsHere’s a 2023 lendar of Canada Gay Pri ftivals and Ski Weeks. Cathar LGBTQ Pri – May 27-June 4, 2023Prce Albert SK LGBTQ Pri – May 28-June 4, 2023Canada LGBTQ Pri ( Prce Edward Island 2024)/Fierté Canada Pri – Usually June, but 2024 dat TBAPembroke ON LGBTQ Pri/Renew County LGBTQ Pri – June 2-4, 2023Kelowna LGBTQ Pri/Okanagan LGBTQ Pri – June 2-11, 2023Rega LGBTQ Pri/Queen Cy Pri – June 2-11, 2023Barrie LGBTQ Pri – June 3, 2023Prce Gee BC LGBTQ Pri – June 3, 2023Timms ON LGBTQ Pri – June 3-10, 2023Brampton LGBTQ Pri/Peel LGBTQ Pri/Mississga LGBTQ Pri – June 4, 2023Stratford LGBTQ Pri/Perth County LGBTQ Pri – June 4, 2023Brockville ON LGBTQ Pri – June 5-11, 2023Cranbrook BC LGBTQ Pri – June 8-10, 2023Guelph LGBTQ Pri – June 8-18, 2023Saskatoon LGBTQ Pri – June 9-18, 2023Bay of Qute LGBTQ Pri (fka Bellevue ON Pri)/Prce Edward County LGBTQ Pri – June 10, 2023Qunel BC LGBTQ Pri – June 10, 2023Tri-Pri Ontar/Cambridge–Kchener–Waterloo LGBTQ Pri – June 10, 2023Nanaimo BC LGBTQ Pri – June 11, 2023Brandon Manoba LGBTQ Pri – June 11-17, 2023Kgston LGBTQ Pri – June 11-18, 2023Kenora ON Gay Pri – Usually mid-June, but 2023 dat TBAYork Regn LGBTQ Pri/Newmarket ON LGBTQ Pri/Markham LGBTQ Pri – June 16-17, 2023Brantford ON LGBTQ Pri – June 17, 2023Columbia Valley BC LGBTQ Pri/Invermere LGBTQ Pri – June 17, 2023Oxford County ON Pri/Woodstock LGBTQ Pri – June 17, 2023Thunr Bay LGBTQ Pri – June 17, 2023Toronto LGBTQ Pri – June 23-25, 2023 (wh addnal related events takg place throughout the month of June)Lethbridge LGBTQ Pri – June 24, 2023Surrey LGBTQ Pri – June 24, 2023Victoria BC LGBTQ Pri – June 29-July 9, 2023Southwt Saskatchewan LGBTQ Pri/Swift Current LGBTQ Pri – July 3-8, 2023Sudbury LGBTQ Pri – July 10-16, 2023Le Renz-vo la fierté Adie Love New Bnswick/Caraquet LGBTQ Pri – July 13-16, 2023Collgwood ON LGBTQ Pri – July 14-16, 2023Frericton LGBTQ Pri – July 14-23, 2023St. 3, 2023Kootenay LGBTQ Pri/Nelson LGBTQ Pri – Usually early September, but 2023 dat TBAPictou County Pri/Pictou NS LGBTQ Pri – Usually early September, but 2023 dat TBAFernie LGBTQ Pri/Elk Valley BC LGBTQ Pri – Usually late September, but 2023 dat TBAPeterborough ON LGBTQ Pri – September 15-24, 2023Banff Gay Pri – Oct.