For 50 years, the group that owns and operat Q Nightclub and Lounge has been providg a safe place for 2SLGBTQ+ members to socialize. The Gay and Lbian Communy of Rega (GLCR) was tablished 1972 to provi a safe space for the 2SLGBTQ+ muny orr to avoid persecutn and attacks. Fifty years later,
Contents:
- 'THEY FEEL SAFE': GAY AND LBIAN COMMUNY OF REGA CELEBRAT 50TH ANNIVERSARY
- 44 YEARS OF THE GAY AND LBIAN COMMUNY OF REGA
- GAY AND LBIAN ACTIVISM
- GAY AND LBIAN COMMUNY OF REGA
- GAY & LBIAN COMMUNY OF REGA
'THEY FEEL SAFE': GAY AND LBIAN COMMUNY OF REGA CELEBRAT 50TH ANNIVERSARY
* gay and lesbian community of regina *
The Gay and Lbian Communy of Rega (GLCR) was tablished 1972 to provi a safe space for the 2SLGBTQ+ muny orr to avoid persecutn and attacks. The Gay and Lbian Communy of Rega moved s social club to 2070 Broad St.
44 YEARS OF THE GAY AND LBIAN COMMUNY OF REGA
Q Nightclub & Lounge is muny owned and operated by the non-prof Gay & Lbian Communy of Rega (GLCR). Q Nightclub & Lounge Rega is the only... * gay and lesbian community of regina *
The Rega Pri Commtee is an off-shoot of the Gay and Lbian Communy of Rega (GLCR), which got gog 1972. “I knew of a few ocsns where people had walked home the eveng om here and got a few blocks away and some people followg them, jumped out of their r, and beat them up, ” Oxelgren add that thankfully ’s not ol anymore to round-up a group of people and go beat up gays.
Hillabold said most of the bs owners were gay or lbian themselv. Gay and Lbian Activism.
Gay pri para, Rega, 2003. Saskatchewan is not a place one monly associat wh gay and lbian activism - and wh good reason, for, wh s small populatn base, larger percentage of ral and small-town dwellers, and ample number of relig adherents, would not appear to have the necsary gredients for such activism. Not only did Saskatchewan have pockets of activism and produce gay and lbian activists who would bee proment natnally, but for a time the mid-1970s, appeared that Saskatchewan would lead the way for Canadian regnn of sexual diversy.
GAY AND LBIAN ACTIVISM
Formal gay activism, as opposed to rmal lbian and gay socializatn works, had existed sce the end of World War II and arrived the provce March 1971. Saskatoon's Gens Hellquist placed an advertisement for “Saskatoon Gay Liberatn” Vanuver's alternative publitn The Geia Straight. This group, supplemented wh other members of Hellquist's social circle (a diverse group that clud Universy of Saskatchewan profsors, universy stunts, profsnals, and a few workg-class men and women) met to formally discs plans to anize the cy's gay muny.
The discsns led to the creatn of the Zodiac Friendship Society, an umbrella anizatn that would be voted to gay polil issu (or “liberatn” as was known the 1970s), tn, unsellg and support groups, and, most popular of all, a social club - the Gemi Club. The money generated at the weekly danc, ially held at the Unarian Centre, eventually rulted sufficient funds to open a Gay Communy Centre March 1973.
The Saskatoon Gay Communy Centre was loted on prime downtown real tate. The only other Canadian cy to have a dited gay centre then was Toronto, and Saskatoon's achievement was a pot of nsirable pri for lol activists.
GAY AND LBIAN COMMUNY OF REGA
In the early years, a number of short-lived activist groups, cludg Saskatoon Gay Alliance Toward Equaly (GATE) and Gay Stunts Alliance, had existed the cy. The were eventually amalgamated to Saskatoon Gay Actn (SGA), which sought to “brg about the total liberatn of the gay muny. ” Rega activists lnched GATE Rega and the Universy of Saskatchewan Homophile Associatn (Rega Camp), but the proved very short-lived and stggled for membership.
The primary foc of the Rega gay and lbian muny's energy was s social club, which was created 1973. Origally lled the “hoe on Smh Street, ” the Gay Communy of Rega (GCR), a -operative, has succsfully n a social club until the prent day, earng the distctn of operatg the longt servg gay social anizatn the untry. In 1973, members of Saskatoon Gay Actn met wh the Saskatchewan Human Rights Commissn (SHRC) to prent a brief outlg homosexual discrimatn which urged them to remend the cln of sexual orientatn to the human rights .
GAY & LBIAN COMMUNY OF REGA
Had the legislative change occurred then, 1973-74, the Blakeney NDP ernment would have led the way for Canadian gays and lbians. Another key step Saskatchewan gay activism was the publicy given to the Doug Wilson se at the Universy of Saskatchewan. The posive media portra of Wilson's stggle agast the discrimatory practice of the admistrators was an important tnal opportuny for the provce's gay activists.
It marked a turng pot, where beme evint that people's attus and awarens were begng to change wh rpect to the treatment of lbians and gays. In March 1977, he was one of the lears of a 125-member prott rally at the legislature, where chants of “gay rights now” and “talk is cheap” amplified the urgency of the wrten document which mand the immediate addn of sexual orientatn to the human rights .