REMEMBERING TORONTO’S FIRST GAY PRIDE PICNIC, 1971, & PRIDE MARCH & PICNIC, 1972 – Toronto Savvy

Contents:

• FLASHBACK: TORONTO’S FIRST “GAY DAY PIIC” WAS HELD (AUGUST 1, 1971)
• REMEMBERING TORONTO’S FIRST GAY PRIDE PICNIC, 1971, & PRIDE MARCH & PICNIC, 1972
• GAY TORONTO
• ONE OF N.L.'S FIRST MARRIED GAY UPL LOOK BACK WH PRI
• BIG GAY PIIC
• THE 5 BEST TORONTO GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS TORONTO

FLASHBACK: TORONTO’S FIRST “GAY DAY PIIC” WAS HELD (AUGUST 1, 1971)

It was a groundbreakg event anized by Toronto Gay Actn, the Communy Homophile Associatn of Toronto and the Universy of Toronto Homophile Associatn, wh around 300 people om neighbourg ci as far away as New York Cy and Detro attendg to show their support.

REMEMBERING TORONTO’S FIRST GAY PRIDE PICNIC, 1971, & PRIDE MARCH & PICNIC, 1972

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. By 2014, 18 teams 3 divisns play wh more than 300 anized Pri events take place, but the Fourth Annual Gay Conference for Canada and Quebec is held Toronto.

GAY TORONTO

Teenager Emmanuel Jacqu is raped and murred above Yonge Street, and a strong backlash is levelled agast the Toronto gay be first provce to clu sexual orientatn s Human Rights .

ONE OF N.L.'S FIRST MARRIED GAY UPL LOOK BACK WH PRI

The Supreme Court l that unr the Charter of Rights and Freedoms and the Canadian Human Rights Act, gays and lbians nnot be exclud om enterg the Canadian Forc.

BIG GAY PIIC

To celebrate the theme “Come Out”, the para Grand Marshals are members of “support groups to gays and lbians the g out procs” para starts at Carlton Street at Church, mov over to Yonge, up to Bloor and back over to Church.

”Grand Marshal John Fisher, Executive Director of Egale Canada, was regnized for his hard work and ditn to issu of jtice and equaly for lbian, gay, bisexual, transsexual and transgenr people across the untry.

THE 5 BEST TORONTO GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS TORONTO

He also served on the board of Directors of the AIDS Commtee of Toronto, the Hassle Free Clic, and recently won an important urt victory for CPP survivors pensns a natnal class Honoured Group for 2004 was The Lbian and Gay Communy Appeal Foundatn (LGCA). He embodied this year’s fearls theme as -founr of Tupilak, a Nordic anizatn of lbian and gay cultural workers, mpaigng tirelsly to shed light and support to our sister queer muni experiencg opprsn, neo-Nazi vlence, fascism, and state sanctned vlence throughout the were two Honoured Groups this year, Primetimers Toronto and SOY (Supportg Our Youth). ” and this was put to play wh the addn of a new stage Gee Hislop Park, which featured performanc by trans artists om across North third-ever Internatnal Grand Marshal was Gareth Henry, former Co-chair and Program Manager of JFLAG (the Jamai Fom for Lbians, All-Sexuals, and Gays) and Co-founr of the Sunshe Cathedral Jamai.

ARCHIVAL IMAGES – CLGA, the Canadian Lbian and Gay Archiv, 2nd largt the world, 34 Isabella Street, 416-777-2755, STAR – June 23/2019 – big crowds, clear ski, and a day beamg wh joy. "The fact that we're Toronto 2021 and folks are feelg unsafe and are feelg fearful is really dishearteng, " said cints serve as a remr that Pri Month began as a prott to fight for equal rights, he June 1969, New York Cy's LGTBQ muny rted agast police discrimatn and homophobia after the Stonewall Inn, a gay bar, was raid, sparkg Pri weeks across North Ameri the years that 's Pot was where Toronto activists held the cy's first "Gay Day Piic" 1971. The disturbg asslt of a 24-year-old Toronto man at the ferry docks near Hanlan’s Pot on Saturday night has touched a nerve Toronto, promptg thoands to speak out agast anti-gay hate and discs the beach’s role as a safe space for queer muni the cy.

The Stonewall rts began the early morng hours of June 28, 1969, at the Stonewall Inn, a gay bar the Greenwich Village neighbourhood of Manhattan, and ntued for six days outsi of the Christopher Street bar, surroundg streets and the nearby Christopher Park. The vlent raids prompted a rt the followg night Toronto, and mark the begng of the gay liberatn movement Canada, which evolved to Toronto’s current Pri Month, now one of the world’s largt gay pri ftivals.

Today many of our brothers and sisters – pecially the most margalized muni, cludg Black, trans and Indigeno people – ntue to experience random acts of vlence and micro aggrsns on the street, school hallways or their workplace, which is why gay safe spac (cludg beach, nightclubs and muny centr) have ntued to play such an important role the evolutn of gay culture. Toronto’s gay muny has lost a number of queer spac throughout the panmic and, followg the attack on Gomez, many people the muny are llg on alli to be extra-observant when occupyg tradnally queer spac this summer, cludg the seclud clothg-optnal stretch of Hanlan’s Pot that the LGBTQ+ muny has tradnally shared wh nudists. will feature GEORGE HISLOP, for many years the voice of the homophile movement Toronto, and now the proprietor of a very stylish bar, remiscg about gay Toronto the days of yore; SHEILA GOSTICK, the bright new ic who's the h of Y-Y's komedy kabaret; FERRON, the popular Vanuver-based lbian sger/song wrer, star entertaer of the first "Gay News and Views" TV season and very wty person; and JOHN RECHY, thor of CITY OF NIGHT, NUMBERS, and THE SEXUAL OUTLAW.