In what is beg lled a first Canada, a rabow-loured gay-pri flag was raised at an Alberta ary base today durg a ceremony attend by senr officers and civilian members of the LGBT muny.
Contents:
- GAY EDMONTON PRI FTIVAL: CANADIAN LGBTQ2S+ EVENT
- CFB EDMONTON 1ST BASE TO RAISE GAY-PRI FLAG
- GAY AND LBIAN ARCHIV OF EDMONTON
GAY EDMONTON PRI FTIVAL: CANADIAN LGBTQ2S+ EVENT
Gay Pri Para Edmonton Canada: The bt Photos & Vios of the LGBTQ+ & gay pri ftival the Wt-Canadian pal cy of Alberta * edmonton gay pride 2018 *
(Zoe Todd/CBC)Alberta Liberal Lear David Khan, a para marshal and openly gay man, said the excln of Kenney and his party reflects the way many members of the LGBTQ feel about the UCP and s polici. "From the archiv: Edmonton's first Gay Pri Day proclaimedShe relled seeg a much smaller group of people march through downtown Edmonton nearly three s ago, before the cy clared a Gay Pri Day June 1993.
)Equal rights for the Gay Communy:People of varyg sexualy fought for the right to be permted to have nsensual relatnships, jt like the rights that hetersexuals had.
In Canada there was a fight to end the vlent opprsn and crimalizaon of Patterns of Opprsn Gay rights:Demonizg: Gays were portrayed as child molters, monsters, viants. Pathology: Some gay (or spected gay) persons were hospalized and /or sent to be cured of their homosexualyCrimalize: Laws were/are passed to make difficult for gay people to have gay relatnships.
CFB EDMONTON 1ST BASE TO RAISE GAY-PRI FLAG
* edmonton gay pride 2018 *
Reprentatn: The media reprentatns of gays were ritur if prent at all. Divisn of Communy: There were tim history when gay rights were beg fought by the majory of the queer muny, and jt like women’s rights the history books seem to be missg those tails.
GAY AND LBIAN ARCHIV OF EDMONTON
The history of the Pri para Edmonton has seen many forms. What started out as a prott of discrimatn — agast people who are lbian or gay, bisexual or trans, queer, qutng or two-spired — has morphed to more of a celebratn. * edmonton gay pride 2018 *
Yet when beme apparent that change would happen for some groups faster the gay pri movement beme one domated by sexy men who wore leather and were whe (or at least not tooooo ethnic). By the late 80’s most people knew about gay men and lbians, but for some reason trans was not a topic beg discsed.
Gay marriage rights were passed, the right to have adult nsensual sex was passed, the right to adopt. Anger that the hard work and activism that went to achievg the gay rights we have are not beg celebrated the way we feel we earned. Someone I rpect was sharg their story, about a time here Edmonton when the anizatns were terrogatg their own to out (and often arrt) their own members for beg spected of beg gay.