It’s time to pat the mp rabow. We’re right the thick of Toronto’s first-ever Pri Month wh ftivi takg place all over the cy leadg up to the grand fale – the Pri Para on July 3. This year, upbeat celebratns have been marred by the horrific mass-shootg at a gay nightclub Orlando Florida where 49 people were killed. Its aftershock has been felt all over the world cludg Toronto, wh vigils held this past Wednday on all three U of T mp. The pri flag flyg over Varsy Stadium was lowered to half-mast.
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REMEMBERING TORONTO’S FIRST GAY PRIDE PICNIC, 1971, & PRIDE MARCH & PICNIC, 1972
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A piic is anized by Toronto’s first queer activist anizatns – the Universy of Toronto Homophile Associatn (UHTA), Toronto Gay Actn Now, and the Communy Homophile Associatn of Toronto (CHAT). Toronto’s first “Gay Day Piic” is held at Hanlan’s Pot on Sunday, Augt 1st, as a fundraiser to send activists to Ottawa for a 2nd anniversary march markg Polic formed. On July 9th, the send annual Gay Piic is held as part of a seri of events for the first Gay Pri Week.
You had to be brave those days, when a small army of souls set off for TORONTO’s first Gay Piic, nearly 47 years ago on Sunday, Augt 1/1971. It was held at HANLAN’S POINT on Toronto Islands, se of today’s clothg optnal first Gay Pri Week TORONTO took place 1972. There… * pride picnic toronto *
On the 28th of that month, unr police watch, the first gay monstratn Ottawa tak place.