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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. 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).

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

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.

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 . 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.

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.

GAY TORONTO

”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.

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.

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

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.

RECHY, whose first novel was published 1963, has recent years bee creasgly outspoken his fense of open gay sexualy, and his nmnatn of both sado-masochism and censorship.

BIG GAY PIIC

Lawrence Market North, where so many gay people buy their vegetabl on Saturday morng, will be transformed to the biggt dance palace town by Saturday night. The Metro Toronto Inter-Fah Gay Council, which clus Digny, Integry, Congregatn B'nai Kehillah, and the Metropolan Communy Church, is sponsorg a Sunday morng ecumenil service on the Toronto Islands.

ANTI-NORMAL, APHRODITE'S ALTERNATIVE, THE BODY POLITIC, CANADIAN GAY ARCHIVES, CATALYST PRESS, CHATSWORTH CHARITABLE FOUNDATION, COALITION FOR GAY RIGHTS IN ONTARIO, COMMITTEE TO DEFEND JOHN DAMIEN, COMMUNITY HOMOPHILE ASSOCIATION OF TORONTO (CHAT), CONGREGATION B'NAI KEHILLAH OF TORONTO FOR GAY JEWS, DIGNITY FOR GAY CATHOLICS, FREE LESBIANS AND GAYS (FLAG), GAY ACADEMIC UNION, GAY ALLIANCE TOWARD EQUALITY (GATE), GAY COMMUNITY CALENDAR, GAY COMMUNITY SERVICES CENTRE, GAYS AT TORONTO (GAT), GAY TELEVISION COLLECTIVE, GAY YOUTH TORONTO, GAYS AT YORK, GAY EQUALITY MISSISSAUGA, GLAD DAY BOOKSTORE, HARBINGER GAY MEN'S DROP-IN, HARBINGER LESBIAN DROP-IN, HASSLE FREE CLINIC, INTEGRITY - GAY ANGLICANS, LESBIAN AND GAY TRADE UNION GROUP, LESBIAN ORGANIZATION OF TORONTO (LOOT), METROPOLITAN COMMUNITY CHURCH, GAYLINE WEST, GAY OFFENSIVE COLLECTIVE, GAY TV, LIBERTARIANS FOR GAY RIGHTS, NDP GAY CAUCUS, OLDER LESBIANS AND GAYS, OSGOODE GAY CAUCUS, PINK TRIANGLE PRESS, THREE OF CUPS, TAG (TORONTO AREA GAYS), TORONTO WOMEN'S BOOKSTORE, TRANSVESTITES IN TORONTO, TRI-AID CHARITABLE FOUNDATION, WAGES DUE LESBIANS, WOMEN'S ARCHIVES.

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

In Toronto the events clu the Gay Piic of 1971, the Gay Pri Weeks and Pri march of 1972, 1973 (a year of ordated Pri events across the untry), and 1974, and Gaydays of 1978.

Certaly the same spir were the gay rights march and ralli of 1975 and 1976, the first sponsored by the Coaln for Gay Rights Ontar and the send occurrg as part of the Fourth Natnal Gay Conference. The historil importance of 1981 to Pri li the formatn of the Lbian & Gay Pri Day Commtee that year, and s termatn to see that Pri beme an annual event om then on.

Lawrence Market rally of 1978 and the subsequent night march; and the even larger Gaydays celebratory dance at the Market later that year, at the end of Augt. That this type of 1970s celebratn (Pri Weeks/Gaydays) was timed to mark the anniversary of the Augt 1971 first natnal queer monstratn, on Parliament Hill, provis even further ronance. And om the people who were part of this 1970's para had e, or would e, such thgs as the Universy of Toronto Homophile Associatn � one of the earlit gay anizatns Canada; Glad Day Books � now the olst gay bookstore the world; the Communy Homophile Associatn of Toronto � which put the gay muny on the map Toronto and which was at that time the largt gay anizatn Canada; The Body Polic � out of which would e both Xtra and The Canadian Lbian and Gay Archiv; The Coaltn for Gay Rights Ontar � val to the cln of sexual orientatn the Ontar Human Rights Co; The Gay Alliance Towards Equaly, and so on, and so on.

Given how Toronto Pri occurs June honour of the June, 1969, Stonewall rts, and given how Pri and other events of the 1970s Toronto were as much about standg up to a homophobic culture as they were about celebratn, there is somethg at least ironic how dimished those 1970s Toronto events fd themselv wh the history of both Toronto Pri and the Toronto queer muny self. 22, 1972, I woke up next to Rich Wanl, the print of the Gay Activists Alliance of New was the hottt anizatn of the nascent gay-liberatn movement, so was a up to have him Toronto for our first Gay Pri Week.