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• MOVG TO LGBT EDMONTON, ALBERTA? HOW TO FD YOUR PERFECT GAY NEIGHBORHOOD!
• EDMONTON OILERS CELEBRATE PRI NIGHT BY HONORG OPENLY GAY PLAYER LE PROKOP
• GAY PLAYER LE PROKOP SH AS EDMONTON WS WTERN HOCKEY LEAGUE TLE
• THE BEST EDMONTON GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS EDMONTON
• GAY DATG EDMONTON

MOVG TO LGBT EDMONTON, ALBERTA? HOW TO FD YOUR PERFECT GAY NEIGHBORHOOD!

ALBERTA GAY STRAIGHT ALLIANCE CONFERENCEThe AB GSA Conference serv youth 3 ma ways. “1982The first Gay Pri Weekend (June 25-27) was lnched wh the theme “Pri Through Uny, ” which was part of ongog muny anizg rultg om the Pisc Health Spa raid. Seven lol lbian and gay groups helped to anize Uny weekend, which kicked off wh a drag show and buffet at Flashback sponsored by the Imperial Sovereign Court of the Wild Rose, and a Uny Dance held at the Phoenix Hall sponsored by GATE wh about 250 people attendance, followed by a piic and BBQ at Camp Harris.

Uny celebratns nclud wh a softball tournament featurg gays vs.

EDMONTON OILERS CELEBRATE PRI NIGHT BY HONORG OPENLY GAY PLAYER LE PROKOP

The gam were held at Camp Harris and sponsored by the Roughnecks, Edmonton’s gay and lbian sports group.

” Conference workshops clud eedom and thory the church, gay eedom and gospel valu, and eedom and women the church. “1983Edmonton’s Gay Pri Week Commtee aniz ten days of activi (June 25 to July 3) to celebrate Pri throughout the cy, cludg a fundraisg food fair ntt for the “culary queens and ladle-swgg lbians.

Other Pri Week activi clu a piic the park, sports gam, film nights (wh one night dited exclively to women’s films), lbian book sale, gay and lbian history discsn, mil performanc, art show, muny awards, pri dance, and an ecumenil church service sponsored by MCC and Digny.

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Stt McConnell, one of the mtee anizers, stat that Gay Pri Week is an opportuny to “work wh the straight muny and bee more unified. ” A film night anizer, Kathy Baker, highlighted how Pri is “an acceptance of self and others wh the muny and facilatg good feelgs about ourselv as lbians and gay men and as dividuals. “1984Gay Pri Week morphed to Gay and Lbian Awarens (GALA ’84) week, which reprented the g together of several gay and lbian muny anizatns to host a week full of planned activi.

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The ial anizg groups clud the Gay Alliance Toward Equaly (GATE), Metropolan Communy Church (MCC), Edmonton Vol Mory Chos (EVM), and Womonspace. The week of events (June 21-29) clud a lbian drop- we and chee hosted by Womonspace; a GATE open hoe; an all day piic at Rundle Park (wh sportg events, gam, ecumenil church service, and children’s ncert wh Lynne Weeds); two public foms on ‘Pornography: A Gay Perspective” and the “Church, State, and Civil Rights;” a film night at The Cal; art appreciate night at Flashback; and the GALA Dance at Hazelan Communy Hall. The newly formed GALA Society petned the Cy of Edmonton to clare June 27th as Gay and Lbian Awarens Day.

Alrman Julian Kisky stated he “would never one mute endorse such a thg, ” addg on “[he has no] sympathy whatsoever” for gays and lbians. The Edmonton Sun published a vilently homophobic edorial parg the requt to supportg perasty and chastized the gay and lbian muny for requtg an official proclamatn and closed their edorial by statg, “Have a nice week people, but let the rt of get on wh our heterosexual liv peace. GALA ced how Pri Week was necsary durg “a time when AIDS stori domated the news… Posive exposure is val remdg Edmontonians that our cy is home to a visible lbian and gay muny.

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”Alrman Ed Ewasi ma a send attempt to officially proclaim Gay and Lbian Awarens Day on June 27th Edmonton.

New pri events clud three plays, “Come Out, Come Out, Wherever You Are”, “Retrospective: A Dramatizatn of Our Gay and Lbian History, ” and “F for Life: An Eveng of Sks”, as well as a lbian and gay Alholics Anonymo meetg at the Unarian Church.

Robson was also on hand to help officially open the new Gay and Lbian Communy Centre of Edmonton (GLCCE) and participated a muny BBQ hosted by GALA’s Civil Rights Commtee, which had long been advotg for the cln of sexual orientatn protectns Alberta’s human rights year’s Pri ftivi clud more than two dozen events, cludg a Womonspace dance; a workshop for people of lour, mixed anctry and whe alli hosted by Wtwood Unarian Church; a discsn on gays and lbians and the law held at the Faculty of Bs, UofA; a panel discsn on Edmonton’s lbian and gay past at Common Woman Books; a film screeng of “Torch Song Trilogy” at the Prcs Theatre; a safer sex workshop entled “Hot, Healthy, and Horny” hosted by the AIDS Network of Edmonton; a lbian photography exhib; a GALA Pri dance wh a 60’s drs-up theme; and a special 20th anniversary Stonewall Piic at Victoria Park, which featured the 2nd Annual Northern Chaps Croquet Tournament.

Mayor Terry Cavanagh and Cy Council ntued to reject GALA’s Pri proclamatn requt leadg GALA to self-proclaim “Gay Day Anyway” punctuated wh a public rally and mock proclamatn the form of a special “silly cy uncil meetg” held at Centennial Plaza (by Cy Hall) wh lol actors playg the rol of cy alrmen and the mayor. As a lead up to this year’s GALA celebratns, Labour Mister Elae McCoy publicly announced her support to amend Alberta’s human rights statute to protect gays and lbians om discrimatn.

McCoy was the first provcial ernment Mister on rerd to e out publicly support of gay and lbian civil rights. Dpe the objectns of Alrman Ken Kozak, who said proclaimg a Gay Pri Day would be ak to “havg a day for flyg elephants, ” Cy Council approv the motn.

Dmmer bnch and ntt; a safer sex workshop; Unarian church service; multi-night film ftival at the Cal; live mic and art show; and a LBiGay, Motown, and Womyn only muny danc. Another notable event was the first-ever LBiGay Bs Fair, which featured 40 different vendors rangg om florists to lawyers.