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November has been a whirlwd of activy! The Calgary Gay History Project went to Wnipeg this week to see the book, Our Past Matters: Stori of Gay Calgary productn. Chris Young om gave thor, Kev Allen, and some lol fay members a tour of their amazg facily. This book, which has been four…

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OUR PAST MATTERS: STORI OF GAY CALGARY

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Kev Allen's Our Past Matters: Stori of Gay Calgary walks the rear through the back alleys and unrground gatherg spac of the cy's early gay muny.

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Our Past Matters: Stori of Gay Calgary is available for sale at pennt bookstor such as Shelf Life Books and Pag. Onle Shoppg: $24.99 + $6.99 shippg (Canada): here. E-book edn at Amazon for $9.99 (Canada): here.  GoodReads reviews: here. Next Generatn Indie Book Awards Falist 2020 Governor General's History Award for Excellence Communy… * our past matters stories of gay calgary *

2020Augt 3, 2023This was a very tertg read for me, as I grew up Calgary, and basilly was obliv to the discrimatn agast gay people.

Started January 1973, the People’s Liberatn Coaln served the Calgary gay muny by offerg rmatn and unsellg g a peer support mol. The group was an evolutn of the Gay Liberatn Front (GLF), which had begun meetg September 1972, spearhead by Universy of Calgary grad stunt Rick Sullivan.

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Rex’s world expand as he was troduced to more gays and lbians. An Atralian gay activist named Brian Ldberg, who travelled through Wtern Canada later 1973, scribed the movement Calgary as gog through a difficult perd.

“The gay rmatn centre was staffed by only a few people (one particular) who ntued to mata the service even though ltle assistance uld be obtaed. Consirg the populatn size of Calgary, I was surprised not to fd a well-anized gay liberatn movement.

Queer peer support was rurrected June 1975 as Gay Informatn and Rourc Calgary (GIRC) by My Lipton and Wdi Earthworm. Posted Gay history.

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