Explore our 2023 Global Gay Pri Calendar for the LGBTQ+ muny featurg a listg of 200+ gay pri paras and celebratns around the world.
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VANUVER GAY PRI
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.
ONE OF N.L.'S FIRST MARRIED GAY UPL LOOK BACK WH PRI
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. 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”.