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. 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”.
Both put the spotlight on early 1990s Montreal, where — agast a backdrop of police vlence and the AIDS crisis — the LGBTQ+ muny is shaken to the re by the unsolved murrs of 17 gay CBC Podsts' Chosen Fay, artists, activists and Black Liv Canada -founrs Sys Marc Ware and Rodney Diverl jo hosts Thomas and Tranna for a special nversatn on the movement for racial jtice wh the queer muny. "[Comg out] radilly changed my life, I was beg myself, I'm 100 per cent gay and I'm proud of , " he 66-year-old said he felt "terrified" his whole life, but now after g out and attendg his first Pri, he feels ee. Tens of thoands of gay rights supporters parad through central Seoul spe South Korea's ma nservative opposn party nouncg the Pri event a untry where Christian church have endurg polil fluence.
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(Francis Se/Associated Prs) SydneyDrag queens pose durg the lnch of Sydney Gay and Lbian Mardi Gras WorldPri bid lnch on June 6. 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). 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.