2023 Global Gay Pri Calendar

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• A BRIEF HISTORY OF PRI TORONTO LET BE | © TAYMAZ VALLEY/FLICKR CULTURE TRIP 24 DECEMBER 2019 COPY LK FACEBOOK EMAIL TWTER PTERT TORONTO HOSTS ONE OF THE LARGT PRI FTIVALS NORTH AMERI, CELEBRATG ‘THE HISTORY, URAGE AND DIVERSY OF OUR MUNY’ AND UNG THE CY A 10-DAY EVENT OF ARTS, CULTURE, AND MUNY BUILDG – CULMATG WH THE HUGELY-POPULAR PRI PARA. READ ON TO DISVER THE HISTORY OF TORONTO’S PRI MOVEMENT, HOW THE LGBTQ MUNY AND SUPPORTERS UNED SOLIDARY TO MAKE A CHANGE, AND HOW THE FTIVAL GOT WHERE IS TODAY. THE HISTORY OF PRI BEGS 1971, WHEN THE COMMUNY OF HOMOPHILE ASSOCIATN OF TORONTO AND TORONTO GAY ACTN HELD A GATHERG AT HANLAN’S POT TO UNE THE QUEER MUNY. THIS EVENTFUL PIIC — WHICH HAD OVER 300 ATTEN — UNED A HIGHLY OPPRSED GROUP OF DIVIDUALS A PUBLIC CELEBRATN, WH BANNERS WAVG AND LOURFUL FLAGS FLYG HIGH THE AIR. THIS SERI OF PIICS NTUED TO DISPLAY GAY SOLIDARY, EVOLVG TO AN ANNUAL EVENT THAT GREW SIZE YEAR AFTER YEAR. IN 1974, THIS ANNUAL PIIC BEME TORONTO’S FIRST ‘PRI WEEK’, GATHERG PEOPLE TO MARCH DOWN QUEEN STREET SUPPORT OF GAY RIGHTS. VIEW ALL TRIPS PRI TORONTO 2012 | © CHRIS BROOKER /WIKIMONS THE NTROVERSIAL ATH OF EMANUEL JACQU, A 12-YEAR OLD BOY WHO WAS RAPED AND MURRED 1977, IGNED PROTTS AGAST THE GAY MUNY. HOWEVER, WH THE HELP OF POLIL ACTIVISTS AND PNEERS, THE QUEER MUNY NTUED TO FIGHT FOR S RIGHTS, ALTHOUGH THE STGGLE STILL REMAED A TOUGH ONE. TAKE A SP TO FD YOUR PERFECT SMALL-GROUP TRIP STATN PASSPORTS READY? YOUR NEXT STATN IS... VIEW TRIP SP ICELAND EGYPT BALI THAILAND JAPAN SPA SOUTH AI MOROC ECUADOR TURKEY GREECE CROATIA MEXI INDIA IN 1979, JERRY CICRTI, SKY GILBERT AND MATT WALSH FOUND THE FIRST QUEER THEATRE, BUDDI BAD TIM THEATRE, WHICH IS THE LONGT-NNG AND LARGT THEATRE OF S KD THE WORLD TODAY, NURTURG BIG NAM LIKE ATOM EGOYAN AND ANN-MARIE MACDONALD. IN 1980, GEE HISLOP, A GAY RIGHTS POLIL ACTIVIST, BEME THE FIRST LGBTQ PERSON TO N FOR CY UNCIL CANADA AS WELL AS THE FIRST TO N FOR POLIL OFFICE ALL OF ONTAR. ALTHOUGH HE WAS FEATED, HE REPRENTED A SYMBOL OF CHANGE THE POLIL LANDSPE BY LOBBYG FOR VAR GAY RIGHTS, FOUNDG THE COMMUNY HOMOPHILE ASSOCIATN OF TORONTO AND ANIZG THE FIRST GAY RIGHTS MONSTRATN. IN 1981, TORONTO POLICE OFFICERS RAID TORONTO’S GAY VILLAGE, BREAKG DOWN DOORS AND ROUNDG UP CIZENS VAR BATHHO, MOST OF WHOM WERE BROUGHT TO THE STREETS WEARG ONLY A TOWEL. ‘OPERATN SOAP’ ARRTED OVER 300 MEN — THE LARGT MASS ARRT ALL OF CANADA SCE 1970 — G AN UPHEAVAL THE QUEER MUNY THAT VELOPED TO A NATN-WI RIGHTS MOVEMENT. THE NEXT DAY, THOANDS MARCHED DOWN YONGE AND WELLLEY PROTT OF THIS RAID THAT WENT AGAST HUMAN RIGHTS. EDINBURGH AND THE SCOTTISH HIGHLANDS BY TRAIN TRAVERSE STLAND’S MOST SCENIC LANDSP, OM WT AST TO EAST, TRAVELLG BY RAIL VIEW TRIP NEARLY TEN YEARS LATER, THE CY OF TORONTO FALLY PROCLAIMED PRI WEEK AN OFFICIAL EVENT FOR THE FIRST TIME HISTORY – A MAJOR RNERSTONE OF PRI’S HISTORY. IN 1994, 50,000 PEOPLE MARCHED DURG PRI WEEK, WRAPPED PK RIBBON AND FORMG A ‘HUMAN CHA’ AROUND THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY PROTT OF THE FEAT OF BILL 167, A LEGISLATN BILL THAT WOULD HAVE PROVID MOST OF THE RIGHTS AS SAME-SEX UPL. THIS WAS THE LARGT LGBTQ POLIL MARCH CANADIAN HISTORY. IN 1995, MAYOR BARBARA HALL MA A STANCE AND WAS THE FIRST HEAD OF UNCIL TO MARCH THE PRI PARA. THIS SYMBOLIZED A NEW ERA FOR THE LGBT MUNY, TABLISHG A FOOT THE DOOR OF THE POLIL LANDSPE AND GATHERG THE SUPPORT OF POLICS WHO SO LONGLY HELD RENTMENT TOWARDS THE LGBTQ MUNY. IN 1998, MAYOR MEL LASTMAN MA THIS A TRADN THAT STILL STANDS TODAY — APART OM ROB FORD, WHO REFED TO PARTICIPATE 2011. BEE A CULTURE TRIPPER! SIGN UP TO OUR NEWSLETTER TO SAVE UP TO 40% ON OUR UNIQUE TRIPS. SIGN UP SEE PRIVACY POLICY. SEVERAL TORONTO CY COUNCILLORS TAKG PART THE 2006 PRI PARA | © HELEN FILATOVA/WIKIMONS FROM 2000-2006, LEE’S PALACE HELD DANCE PARTI (ONCE LLED ‘VAZALEEN’), SHOWSG SOME OF THE BT ARTISTS IRRPECTIVE OF THEIR GENR, SEX ORIENTATN OR POLIL IOLOGI — THERE WERE NO BOUNDARI AND ALL MUNI ME TOGETHER UNR ONE ROOF FOR A NIGHT OF ART AND MIC. THE SPIR OF #WILLMUNRO LIV ON THIS ‘BLANSDOWNE’ TOILET. #VAZALEEN #LGBT | © JASONPARIS/FLICKR IN 2001, TORONTO’S FIRST SAME-SEX MARRIAGE WAS PERFORMED BY REVEREND BRENT HAWK OF THE METROPOLAN COMMUNY CHURCH — THE FIRST CHURCH CANADA TO SEEK THE ABILY TO MARRY SAME-SEX UPL. THIS IATIVE MARKED THE BEGNG OF CANADA’S PATH TOWARDS LEGALIZG SAME-SEX MARRIAGE UNTRY-WI, WHICH FALLY PASSED JULY 2005 AS THE CIVIL MARRIAGE ACT, MAKG CANADA THE 4TH UNTRY THE WORLD TO LEGALIZE GAY MARRIAGE. REBEL, ACTIVIST, PNEER, SPIRUAL LEAR, TOR, AND ORR OF CANADA RECIPIENT, REV. DR. BRENT HAWK OF THE METROPOLAN COMMUNY CHURCH OF TORONTO | © MARC LOSTRAC/WIKIMONS WHILE PRI MONTH OFFICIALLY STARTS ON JUNE 1, 2016, PRI WILL BE HELD JUNE 24 – JULY 3, 2016, WH SPECIAL EVENTS ACROSS THE CY AND CULMATG WH THE 36TH ANNUAL PRI PARA ON SUNDAY, JULY 3RD. COME TOGETHER TO UNE, SUPPORT AND EMPOWER ‘PEOPLE WH DIVERSE SEXUAL ORIENTATNS, GENR INTI AND GENR EXPRSNS.’ VOLNIC ICELAND EPIC TRIP MEET OUR LOL INSIR HANNA HOW LONG HAVE YOU BEEN A GUIDE? 2 YEARS. WHAT DO YOU LOVE ABOUT YOUR JOB? IT'S THE PERSONAL NTACT, THE PERSONAL EXPERIENC. I LOVE MEETG PEOPLE OM ALL OVER THE WORLD... I REALLY LIKE GETTG TO KNOW EVERYONE AND FEELG LIKE I'M TRAVELG WH A GROUP OF IENDS. WHAT DESTINATION IS ON YOUR TRAVEL BUCKET-LIST? I HAVE SO MANY PLAC ON MY LIST, BUT I WOULD REALLY LOBE TO GO TO AI. I NSIR MYSELF AN “ADVENTURE GIRL” AND AI FEELS LIKE THE ULTIMATE ADVENTURE! EVERY CULTURE TRIP SMALL-GROUP ADVENTURE IS LED BY A LOL INSIR JT LIKE HANNA. SEE OUR CULTURE TRIPS KEEN TO EXPLORE THE WORLD?
• TORONTO 2020 GAY PRI

A BRIEF HISTORY OF PRI TORONTO LET BE | © TAYMAZ VALLEY/FLICKR CULTURE TRIP 24 DECEMBER 2019 COPY LK FACEBOOK EMAIL TWTER PTERT TORONTO HOSTS ONE OF THE LARGT PRI FTIVALS NORTH AMERI, CELEBRATG ‘THE HISTORY, URAGE AND DIVERSY OF OUR MUNY’ AND UNG THE CY A 10-DAY EVENT OF ARTS, CULTURE, AND MUNY BUILDG – CULMATG WH THE HUGELY-POPULAR PRI PARA. READ ON TO DISVER THE HISTORY OF TORONTO’S PRI MOVEMENT, HOW THE LGBTQ MUNY AND SUPPORTERS UNED SOLIDARY TO MAKE A CHANGE, AND HOW THE FTIVAL GOT WHERE IS TODAY. THE HISTORY OF PRI BEGS 1971, WHEN THE COMMUNY OF HOMOPHILE ASSOCIATN OF TORONTO AND TORONTO GAY ACTN HELD A GATHERG AT HANLAN’S POT TO UNE THE QUEER MUNY. THIS EVENTFUL PIIC — WHICH HAD OVER 300 ATTEN — UNED A HIGHLY OPPRSED GROUP OF DIVIDUALS A PUBLIC CELEBRATN, WH BANNERS WAVG AND LOURFUL FLAGS FLYG HIGH THE AIR. THIS SERI OF PIICS NTUED TO DISPLAY GAY SOLIDARY, EVOLVG TO AN ANNUAL EVENT THAT GREW SIZE YEAR AFTER YEAR. IN 1974, THIS ANNUAL PIIC BEME TORONTO’S FIRST ‘PRI WEEK’, GATHERG PEOPLE TO MARCH DOWN QUEEN STREET SUPPORT OF GAY RIGHTS. VIEW ALL TRIPS PRI TORONTO 2012 | © CHRIS BROOKER /WIKIMONS THE NTROVERSIAL ATH OF EMANUEL JACQU, A 12-YEAR OLD BOY WHO WAS RAPED AND MURRED 1977, IGNED PROTTS AGAST THE GAY MUNY. HOWEVER, WH THE HELP OF POLIL ACTIVISTS AND PNEERS, THE QUEER MUNY NTUED TO FIGHT FOR S RIGHTS, ALTHOUGH THE STGGLE STILL REMAED A TOUGH ONE. TAKE A SP TO FD YOUR PERFECT SMALL-GROUP TRIP STATN PASSPORTS READY? YOUR NEXT STATN IS... VIEW TRIP SP ICELAND EGYPT BALI THAILAND JAPAN SPA SOUTH AI MOROC ECUADOR TURKEY GREECE CROATIA MEXI INDIA IN 1979, JERRY CICRTI, SKY GILBERT AND MATT WALSH FOUND THE FIRST QUEER THEATRE, BUDDI BAD TIM THEATRE, WHICH IS THE LONGT-NNG AND LARGT THEATRE OF S KD THE WORLD TODAY, NURTURG BIG NAM LIKE ATOM EGOYAN AND ANN-MARIE MACDONALD. IN 1980, GEE HISLOP, A GAY RIGHTS POLIL ACTIVIST, BEME THE FIRST LGBTQ PERSON TO N FOR CY UNCIL CANADA AS WELL AS THE FIRST TO N FOR POLIL OFFICE ALL OF ONTAR. ALTHOUGH HE WAS FEATED, HE REPRENTED A SYMBOL OF CHANGE THE POLIL LANDSPE BY LOBBYG FOR VAR GAY RIGHTS, FOUNDG THE COMMUNY HOMOPHILE ASSOCIATN OF TORONTO AND ANIZG THE FIRST GAY RIGHTS MONSTRATN. IN 1981, TORONTO POLICE OFFICERS RAID TORONTO’S GAY VILLAGE, BREAKG DOWN DOORS AND ROUNDG UP CIZENS VAR BATHHO, MOST OF WHOM WERE BROUGHT TO THE STREETS WEARG ONLY A TOWEL. ‘OPERATN SOAP’ ARRTED OVER 300 MEN — THE LARGT MASS ARRT ALL OF CANADA SCE 1970 — G AN UPHEAVAL THE QUEER MUNY THAT VELOPED TO A NATN-WI RIGHTS MOVEMENT. THE NEXT DAY, THOANDS MARCHED DOWN YONGE AND WELLLEY PROTT OF THIS RAID THAT WENT AGAST HUMAN RIGHTS. EDINBURGH AND THE SCOTTISH HIGHLANDS BY TRAIN TRAVERSE STLAND’S MOST SCENIC LANDSP, OM WT AST TO EAST, TRAVELLG BY RAIL VIEW TRIP NEARLY TEN YEARS LATER, THE CY OF TORONTO FALLY PROCLAIMED PRI WEEK AN OFFICIAL EVENT FOR THE FIRST TIME HISTORY – A MAJOR RNERSTONE OF PRI’S HISTORY. IN 1994, 50,000 PEOPLE MARCHED DURG PRI WEEK, WRAPPED PK RIBBON AND FORMG A ‘HUMAN CHA’ AROUND THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY PROTT OF THE FEAT OF BILL 167, A LEGISLATN BILL THAT WOULD HAVE PROVID MOST OF THE RIGHTS AS SAME-SEX UPL. THIS WAS THE LARGT LGBTQ POLIL MARCH CANADIAN HISTORY. IN 1995, MAYOR BARBARA HALL MA A STANCE AND WAS THE FIRST HEAD OF UNCIL TO MARCH THE PRI PARA. THIS SYMBOLIZED A NEW ERA FOR THE LGBT MUNY, TABLISHG A FOOT THE DOOR OF THE POLIL LANDSPE AND GATHERG THE SUPPORT OF POLICS WHO SO LONGLY HELD RENTMENT TOWARDS THE LGBTQ MUNY. IN 1998, MAYOR MEL LASTMAN MA THIS A TRADN THAT STILL STANDS TODAY — APART OM ROB FORD, WHO REFED TO PARTICIPATE 2011. BEE A CULTURE TRIPPER! SIGN UP TO OUR NEWSLETTER TO SAVE UP TO 40% ON OUR UNIQUE TRIPS. SIGN UP SEE PRIVACY POLICY. SEVERAL TORONTO CY COUNCILLORS TAKG PART THE 2006 PRI PARA | © HELEN FILATOVA/WIKIMONS FROM 2000-2006, LEE’S PALACE HELD DANCE PARTI (ONCE LLED ‘VAZALEEN’), SHOWSG SOME OF THE BT ARTISTS IRRPECTIVE OF THEIR GENR, SEX ORIENTATN OR POLIL IOLOGI — THERE WERE NO BOUNDARI AND ALL MUNI ME TOGETHER UNR ONE ROOF FOR A NIGHT OF ART AND MIC. THE SPIR OF #WILLMUNRO LIV ON THIS ‘BLANSDOWNE’ TOILET. #VAZALEEN #LGBT | © JASONPARIS/FLICKR IN 2001, TORONTO’S FIRST SAME-SEX MARRIAGE WAS PERFORMED BY REVEREND BRENT HAWK OF THE METROPOLAN COMMUNY CHURCH — THE FIRST CHURCH CANADA TO SEEK THE ABILY TO MARRY SAME-SEX UPL. THIS IATIVE MARKED THE BEGNG OF CANADA’S PATH TOWARDS LEGALIZG SAME-SEX MARRIAGE UNTRY-WI, WHICH FALLY PASSED JULY 2005 AS THE CIVIL MARRIAGE ACT, MAKG CANADA THE 4TH UNTRY THE WORLD TO LEGALIZE GAY MARRIAGE. REBEL, ACTIVIST, PNEER, SPIRUAL LEAR, TOR, AND ORR OF CANADA RECIPIENT, REV. DR. BRENT HAWK OF THE METROPOLAN COMMUNY CHURCH OF TORONTO | © MARC LOSTRAC/WIKIMONS WHILE PRI MONTH OFFICIALLY STARTS ON JUNE 1, 2016, PRI WILL BE HELD JUNE 24 – JULY 3, 2016, WH SPECIAL EVENTS ACROSS THE CY AND CULMATG WH THE 36TH ANNUAL PRI PARA ON SUNDAY, JULY 3RD. COME TOGETHER TO UNE, SUPPORT AND EMPOWER ‘PEOPLE WH DIVERSE SEXUAL ORIENTATNS, GENR INTI AND GENR EXPRSNS.’ VOLNIC ICELAND EPIC TRIP MEET OUR LOL INSIR HANNA HOW LONG HAVE YOU BEEN A GUIDE? 2 YEARS. WHAT DO YOU LOVE ABOUT YOUR JOB? IT'S THE PERSONAL NTACT, THE PERSONAL EXPERIENC. I LOVE MEETG PEOPLE OM ALL OVER THE WORLD... I REALLY LIKE GETTG TO KNOW EVERYONE AND FEELG LIKE I'M TRAVELG WH A GROUP OF IENDS. WHAT DESTINATION IS ON YOUR TRAVEL BUCKET-LIST? I HAVE SO MANY PLAC ON MY LIST, BUT I WOULD REALLY LOBE TO GO TO AI. I NSIR MYSELF AN “ADVENTURE GIRL” AND AI FEELS LIKE THE ULTIMATE ADVENTURE! EVERY CULTURE TRIP SMALL-GROUP ADVENTURE IS LED BY A LOL INSIR JT LIKE HANNA. SEE OUR CULTURE TRIPS KEEN TO EXPLORE THE WORLD?

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TORONTO 2020 GAY PRI

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. On July 9th, the send annual Gay Piic is held as part of a seri of events for the first Gay Pri Week. On the 28th of that month, unr police watch, the first gay monstratn Ottawa tak place.

The Judy Garland Memorial Bowlg League one of the olst queer sports North Amerin, holds the first banquet to raise money for gay and Lbian chari. In 1983, US Ctom Service seized the leagu registratn forms when members attempted to participate the Int’l Gay Bowlg Tournament.

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. Ana Bryant clar her war on homosexualy.

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 . From Augt 24th-27th, GAYDAYS: In Celebratn of Lbians and Gay Men, is held.