Hanne Armstrong The tenth stallment of Moncton's River of Pri Gay Pri Week is well unr way, wh events like softball, bowlg, bgo and flag-raisg already the books. This year's slogan, "Your Rights, Our Rights...
Contents:
- MONCTON TO HOST GAY PRI PARA
- “WE’RE BRGG PIIC BASKETS, NOT WATER BEDS”: THE 40TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE GAY PIIC MONCTON, NEW BNSWICK
- EXPLORE GAY ROOMS & RENTALS MONCTON
- PRI MONTH 2019 | WORLD’S BIGGT GAY PARAS & LGBTQ MARCH
- GAY PRI WEEK 2009 – MONCTON, NEW BNSWICK
- MONCTON TO HOST GAY PRI PARA
MONCTON TO HOST GAY PRI PARA
For Diane Doiron, discrimatn based on her sexualy isn’t foreign to her as she was a victim of the ‘gay purge’ which forced LGBTQ+ people out of the Canadian Milary.
“WE’RE BRGG PIIC BASKETS, NOT WATER BEDS”: THE 40TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE GAY PIIC MONCTON, NEW BNSWICK
He is a survivor of gay nversn therapy. The group River of Pri echog that msage this weekend, agreeg that gay nversn therapy needs to end New Bnswick. We anise events, workshops and more on everythg 2SLGBTQIA+ (lbian, gay, bisexual, trans, queer, and more).
No anisons s événements, s ateliers et pl enre sur tout ce qui ncerne l 2ELGBTQIA+ (lbienne, gay, bisexuel, trans, queer, et pl). "We're honourg him bee of his bravens wh g out bee he's gay and seekg some help bee he's beg bullied bee of his sexual orientatn, " said Sebastien Beze, chairman of River of Pri. “The bar bs as a whole has changed and certaly beg gay this day and age is the biggt and most wele change of all.
EXPLORE GAY ROOMS & RENTALS MONCTON
CanadaMoncton will host s first ever Gay Pri para next month. Monday night, cy uncil proclaimed Gay Pri day June 25. The members also accepted a requt om the Moncton Gay, Lbian, Bi-Sexual and Trans-Genr Pri Commtee to hold a para June 17.
More news om New Bnswick Sat John uncil recently turned down a requt for a Gay Pri Para. It was cy's only gay bar. But wh more young people g out as transgenr, and stronger laws protectg the LGBTQ muny, many people don't see the same need for signated gay spac.
"It's the awarens that possibly the spac aren't as necsary, [bee] there is more of an acceptance rather than a tolerance Moncton and people jt feel open to exist outsi of the basement plac, " said of an eraTriangl was Moncton's first and only gay night club, loted the basement of an office buildg on St Gee Street. "I'm om Sat John, jt down the road, but here is where I feel like I'm gay om.
PRI MONTH 2019 | WORLD’S BIGGT GAY PARAS & LGBTQ MARCH
(Tori Weldon/CBC)"Jt terms of the space, 's a basement, very dark, and wasn't very vg, and I gus I'm part of the generatn where beg queer and gay is very accepted and we're like loud and we're proud and we're tryg to live the bt life that we n Moncton.
The rt began June 1969 after police raid the Stonewall Inn, a gay club New York Cy's Greenwich Village.
GAY PRI WEEK 2009 – MONCTON, NEW BNSWICK
In Canada, the first gay rights prott happened Augt 1971 at Parliament Hill, where protters prented the ernment wh a petn mandg equal rights and protectns. RS418 – Moncton Communy Servic – Inter office memo about gay piic. On Wednday, July 1st, 1981, Domn Day, a group of 250 gays and lbians met Centennial Park, Moncton, New Bnswick.
This gay piic was the e of huge nsternatn throughout the cy the days leadg up to the event, rultg a panicked cy uncil enactg a by-law which prevented any group of over 40 people om holdg an event a cy park whout a perm, an attempt to force the group to ncel. This summer marks the 40th anniversary of this, small, but signifint event Moncton, when stead of ncedg to the Cy Council’s new by-law, gays and lbians attend the piic spe the threat of vlence and arrt.
There was a wispread hancy to be publicly intified as gay, and those who did faced dismissal at work and nstant harassment. The AIDS/HIV crisis was still s fancy, as s of pnmonia and ncers specifilly affectg gay men were beg reportg the Uned Stat, first lled Gay-Related Immune Deficiency. A massive prott agast the actns of police began the followg day the Gay Village.
MONCTON TO HOST GAY PRI PARA
Frericton Lbians and Gays (FLAG) had formed 1979, but there wasn’t an anizatn for gays and lbians of the Moncton area and the piic anizers had hoped that by brgg the muny together a group would be formed. The anizers did not tell the cy partment that was a lbian and gay event and when Moncton Police followed up a few days later, the cy workers were shocked that a mor was gog around that was a “gay piic” that would be held on July 1st. Piic anizer, Don Cormier, addrsed the uncil explag the prent ndns for Moncton’s timated 8, 500 lbian and gays, notg that many faced daily harassment, physil asslt, stctn of property and loss of employment.
The purpose of the piic was to brg people together and to work on fg relatnships to better the ndns for the lbian and gay muny wh groups like cy uncil, police and medil servic.
Picknickers traveled to Moncton to show their support, cludg members of the Gay Alliance for Equaly (GAE) Halifax. Halifax’s GAE wasn’t the only group to show support; Gays of Ottawa, among other groups, wrote to Mayor Dennis Cochrane the days after the event, scribg the cy’s actns as “shockg, flammatory and discrimatory a mocratic society”. Bev MacDonald, wrote to the uncil on behalf of the Atlantic Gay Associatn, a aln which reprented the three ma gay rights anizatns: FLAG, GAE and Northern Lambda Nord, llg Moncton a “closeted cy”.