Montreal’s LGBTQ area wants to drop ‘gay’ om s name

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. 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.

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

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.

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

A generatnal shift away om Montreal’s Gay Village and towards alternative Queer spac wh the cy’s LGBTQ+ muny has been tected.

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”. 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.

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

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.

“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. “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.

GAY VILLAGE

“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.

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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.

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. 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.

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

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

EMBRAC EXTRATERRTRIAL COMMUNY AND EXPANDS INCLIVY DURG PRI MONTH

Gonsalv prevly noted there’s been a history of discrimatn agast gay people. 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. A group of men hurled homophobic at Rob and his hband Patrick om a passg r, before grabbg one of their mobile phon and attackg them wh bottl, knockg one unnsc and leavg the other wh cuts.

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

Several LGBTQ venu the heart of the Gay Village Manchter, northern England, have been acced of racism and racial prejudice by people of lour.

Ten black, Asian and Latx people who intify as lbian, gay, bisexual or transgenr told VICE World News about racist cints wh staff and ctomers and around the cy’s Gay Village. Manchter is known as the “gay pal of the North”, wh LGBTQ historil landmarks fillg the cy. Manchter’s Gay Village is the regn’s ma area for LGBTQ nightlife, and is one of the olst and most tablished gay muni Europe.

THE HISTORY OF THE GAY VILLAGE

On the 29th of July this year, Lucky Roy Sgh was told “get out you paki” by a secury guard at Via, a bar the Gay Village. The group of six was holdg a meetg the cy centre to discs some upg gigs, then cid to go out the Gay Village.

Darren Jackson, 57, has spent several years gog out on the gay scene Manchter, and he says he has repeatedly experienced racism the Village. Photo: Supplied“Racism is so real Manchter’s Gay Village. ”In another cint, Hiren Patel, a gay man based Manchter, told VICE World News that he had only recently started gog back to the Gay Village bee of “blatant racism” he experienced a few years ago, when he was refed entry to a venue.

Around three years ago, Patel was qug wh a iend outsi the Thompsons Arms, an LGBTQ venue Manchter’s Gay Village. ”Other experienc shared wh VICE World News clud a gay Iraqi photographer beg labelled a “terrorist” by bar staff when he was takg photos outsi of a Manchter LGBTQ venue.

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

” Another gay man, Kh Kumar had jt walked to New York New York bar, the heart of the Gay Village, when an on-stage performer ma a ment about his race. Sce the start of the 1990s, the area around Canal Street, Manchter cy centre, has grown to bee one of Europe's most lively gay areas, now known as the Village.

The area has bee popular wh both heterosexual and gay visors and has one of the most vibrant nightlife scen the cy. Safety fears are risg Manchter’s gay village after a shop’s wdows were smashed wh a crowbar for the third time six weeks what the owner has lled a “premedated, targeted hate crime”. ”Official figur show homophobic hate crim creased by 41% the year to March 2022 and transphobic hate crim by 56% – the largt proportnal rise of all tegori, which also clud race, disabily and relign.