Empathy Week: June 1-7 | Calgary Gay History

Contents:

• THE GOLN AGE OF GAY BARS  YYC
• 10 MOMENTS 10 YEARS @YYCGAYHISTORY
• FD OUT ABOUT CALGARY'S GAY HISTORY AS PRI WEEK NTU
• GAY HISTORY PROJECT REVEALS CALGARY’S HIDN HISTORY
• CALGARY GAY HISTORY PROJECT OTTAWA
• CATEGORY ARCHIV: GAY HISTORY

THE GOLN AGE OF GAY BARS  YYC

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. 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.

10 MOMENTS 10 YEARS @YYCGAYHISTORY

Posted Gay history. Tagged bisexual, Brian Ldberg, Calgary Outlk, CommunyWise, Doug Jamon, gay, Gay history, gay liberatn ont, GIRC, GLF, lbian, My Lipton, Old Y, People's Liberatn Coaln, queer, RCMP, Rex Leonard, Rick Sullivan, The Gntlet, transgenr, Universy of Calgary, Wdi Earthworm. June is the month of Pri bee honours the Stonewall Rts New York Cy, which began on June 28, 1969—a galvanizg event the morn gay liberatn movement.

FD OUT ABOUT CALGARY'S GAY HISTORY AS PRI WEEK NTU

Back 1987, legat om many of Calgary’s gay and lbian anizatns me together to form an umbrella anizatn lled Project Pri Calgary.

GAY HISTORY PROJECT REVEALS CALGARY’S HIDN HISTORY

The Calgary Lbian and Gay Polil Actn Guild (CLAGPAG), one of the Project Pri partners, anized the first polil rally, which they ternally scribed as a media stunt. Four hundred people at Cy Hall cheered gay Member of Parliament Svend Robson, who gave an spirg speech spe gloomy weather and even gloomier protters, three of whom were arrted.

” There was phback om the muny, who said they were not aquately nsulted about the date change, and a handful of gay bs refed to participate. Tagged bisexual, Calgary, Calgary Pri, CLAGPAG, gay, Gay history, human-rights, lbian, Lois Szabo, Pri Calgary, queer, Sam Casselman, transgenr.

The Calgary Gay History Project has been ved to participate Empathy Week: a seven-day ftival where people e together to celebrate human nnectn and foster empathy. On Sunday, June 4th at 4 PM, jo the Calgary Gay History Project’s Kev Allen on a walk through the cy centre. We will highlight signifint polil and social events that affected the gay muny.

CALGARY GAY HISTORY PROJECT OTTAWA

Steve Polyak, om Gay Calgary Magaze, takg a photo the 2017 downtown gay history walk. Tagged bisexual, Calgary, Empathy Week, gay, Gay history, Gay History Walk, human-rights, Hyatt, lbian, queer, transgenr.

CATEGORY ARCHIV: GAY HISTORY

{The Calgary Gay History Project is revisg s most impactful blog posts—now numberg the hundreds—sce s ceptn ne years ago. The Goln Age of Gay Bars YYC has been the source of much nostalgia sce was published on September 22, 2017. Club Caroel, the only gay club at the begng of the saw s populary wane as mercial gay bars opened the cy.

The owners and operators had more pal to vt their emergg disthequ, and the growg gay muny flocked to them. The Parksi was named after a famo gay tavern Toronto. Vance Campbell, a bsman and gay bar owner om Vanuver moved to Calgary to start the Parksi wh lol partners.

Vance Campbell proved to be a divisive figure at tim publicly opposg the lol gay activist muny, which revolved around Gay Informatn & Rourc Calgary (GIRC), headquartered only one block away. He was scribed by the Body Polic 1980 as one of the power brokers the gay muny “nfint enough of his posn to wre to the mayor and unter GIRC’s claim that Calgary uld face a gay rights march.

Another reason perhaps why Campbell felt powerful was he was an owner of Calgary’s other gay bar of note: Myrt’s.

This gay lounge and dis were ially open Friday and Saturday nights for men only. Advertisement GIRC’s 1977 publitn, “Gay Moods”. The gay muny was enuraged to e as much as possible; was the venue for emergg theatre artists, Imperial Court drag shows, Mr Butch Calgary “Slave Auctns” and, on Sunday morngs, Metropolan Communy Church servic.

Donated to the YYC Gay Archiv by Terry MacKenzie. We’ve returned om a three-month hiat to celebrate both pri month and ten years sce the Calgary Gay History Project was found. The most read blog post ntu to be Gay men are smarter than straight men – so says history, wrten 2013.

It seems every day someone the world googl “are gay men smart? ”Gay History Walks.

His life story has been a foc of the Calgary Gay History Project sce s ceptn. Calgary’s origal gay bar found 1970 was arguably the most formative queer space the cy has ever seen.