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Contents:

• REARCH FDS YOUNG LGBTQ+ MONTREALERS SHIFTG AWAY OM THE GAY VILLAGE
• ACTIVISTS NMN VLENCE AGAST LGBTQ MUNY ST. VCENT, WHERE GAY SEX IS ILLEGAL
• MAN HELD AFTER 'BTAL' BIRMGHAM GAY VILLAGE ATTACK - AS POLICE SEARCH FOR TWO OTHER MEN NTU
• LGBTQ VENU ACCED OF EXTREME RACISM UK’S ‘GAY CAPAL OF THE NORTH’
• GAY VILLAGE
• GAY VILLAGE
• CROWBAR ATTACKS ON BS SPARK SAFETY FEARS MANCHTER’S GAY VILLAGE
• EMBRAC EXTRATERRTRIAL COMMUNY AND EXPANDS INCLIVY DURG PRI MONTH
• MONTREAL’S MOST FAMO LGBTQ NEIGHBORHOOD WANTS TO DROP ‘GAY’ OM S NAME
• THE HISTORY OF THE GAY VILLAGE
• THE 'GAYTRIFITN' EFFECT: WHY GAY NEIGHBOURHOODS ARE BEG PRICED OUT

REARCH FDS YOUNG LGBTQ+ MONTREALERS SHIFTG AWAY OM THE GAY VILLAGE

Lol merchants suggt rebrand for Montreal’s Gay Village would reflect diversy.

ACTIVISTS NMN VLENCE AGAST LGBTQ MUNY ST. VCENT, WHERE GAY SEX IS ILLEGAL

The lol merchants' associatn wish to rebrand the inic Gay Village, simply llg the Village or Montreal's Village. 2020 marks the first year the cy will allow tablishments a send district — the Gay Village — to rema open until 6 a.

MAN HELD AFTER 'BTAL' BIRMGHAM GAY VILLAGE ATTACK - AS POLICE SEARCH FOR TWO OTHER MEN NTU

Part of art stallatn Montreal’s Gay Village removed followg plats. Gunshots heard Montreal Gay Village, police vtigatg.

Montreal police are vtigatg after receivg several lls about gunshots the cy's Gay Village. A generatnal shift away om Montreal’s Gay Village and towards alternative Queer spac wh the cy’s LGBTQ+ muny has been tected.

LGBTQ VENU ACCED OF EXTREME RACISM UK’S ‘GAY CAPAL OF THE NORTH’

Julie Podmore, an affiliate assistant profsor of geography, planng and environment at Conrdia Universy, has unvered this shift “Far Beyond the Gay Village: LGBTQ Urbanism and Generatn Montréal’s Mile End”.

GAY VILLAGE

Conducted 2013, Podmore’s rearch recently appeared a chapter she wrote for the book The Life and Afterlife of Gay Neighborhoods: Renaissance and Rurgence (eded by Alex Bterman and Daniel Baldw Hs). Prciple among the was the perceptn that the Village had bee a mercialized and homonormative space signed for whe cis gay men. Gentrifitn and velopg the Village as a tourist statn has phed out many queer elements and spac save for those dited to cis gay whe men.

Podmore add that homonormativy and mercializatn the Village were not always the norm. It was a gay space. “But the ‘90s, all over the wtern world we start to see gay villag start to diversify.

GAY VILLAGE

“My generatn of queers was kd of a batn of trans, gays, and lbians that saw themselv as one muny a way, and the Village was their meetg place, ” she add. “At night, I am more likely to be intified as a gay man drag than as a trans woman, so that also mak me feel very unfortable.

CROWBAR ATTACKS ON BS SPARK SAFETY FEARS MANCHTER’S GAY VILLAGE

“I spend a lot of time talkg to trans people, mostly aged between 20 and 35, and none of them feel reprented by the Gay Village” she said.

“Worse, at night, I am more likely to be intified as a gay man drag than as a trans woman, so that also mak me feel very unfortable. Not bee we’re over LGBTQ+-phobia Quebec as some whe gay men will tell you, but bee I and other trans women n lead normal liv most of the cy. I don’t feel the Gay Village is a place where I am weled, or where I feel I belong.

Efforts outled the manifto clu droppg the word “gay” om the Village’s official name, and iatg trag prams signed to te the employe bs the Village on clivy and anti-racist/anti-homophobic, biphobic and transphobic attus.

EMBRAC EXTRATERRTRIAL COMMUNY AND EXPANDS INCLIVY DURG PRI MONTH

If there's nothg gay specific, if there's no reason for LGBTQ+ people to gather there, then the chanc of havg an inty as a queer space are not very likely. Vcent and the Grenad, where gay sex is still homelsns to ongog physil and verbal abe, the gay muny the small natn of some 100, 000 people says is unr nstant threat.

MONTREAL’S MOST FAMO LGBTQ NEIGHBORHOOD WANTS TO DROP ‘GAY’ OM S NAME

Vcent, anal sex is punishable by up to 10 years prison, while “gross cency” wh another person of the same sex is punishable by up to five years, acrdg to lonial-era laws that are mon the socially nservative Caribbean rarely voked, the rights group and a lol activist said the laws help legimize hostily and abe agast gay people. ”In July 2019, two gay men om St. Vcent who are livg abroad filed a se to challenge lol laws crimalizg gay sex that activists say should be stck down.

”Human Rights Watch terviewed more than 20 members of the island’s LGBTQ muny who shared their stori but were not intified to protect them, notg that lol police are often openly discrimatory toward gay people who seek help. One gay man relled how his classmat beat him and broke his arm. Several reported that their fai are homophobic and physilly and verbally abed them, g them to bee homels and promptg some to nsir also stggle to fd jobs amid a high unemployment rate and said they face discrimatn, cludg a 19-year-old gay man who said he has rorted to beggg: “Sometim I am so hungry.

It is hard for me as a gay this untry.

THE HISTORY OF THE GAY VILLAGE

”Six English-speakg natns the Caribbean still crimalize gay sex, cludg Domi, Jamai, Guyana, Grenada and St.

Gonsalv prevly noted there’s been a history of discrimatn agast gay people.

THE 'GAYTRIFITN' EFFECT: WHY GAY NEIGHBOURHOODS ARE BEG PRICED OUT

That kd of irratnal homophobia is entirely unacceptable. ”González wh Human Rights Watch noted that 2019, the ernment held a workshop for public employe on the importance of rpectg gay rights, a rare move for a nservative Caribbean natn. A man has been arrted over a "btal" attack Birmgham's Gay Village, wh a police search ntug for two other attack happened the early hours of the morng last Sunday.