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Contents:
- LGBTQ / GAY HISTORY CANADA
- GAY & LESBIAN VAISHNAVA ASSOCIATION
- QUEER QUEBEC: THE ULTIMATE GAY QUEBEC CY TRAVEL GUI
- GAY QUEBEC TRAVEL GUI
LGBTQ / GAY HISTORY CANADA
Learn about the Davie Street Village and the fight for LGBTQ and gay rights across Canada. * gay history quebec *
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The first rerd gay tablishment North Ameri was Montrealer Moise Tellier’s “appl and ke shop” on Craig Street (now Sat-Antoe Street) near Sat-Lrent Boulevard, where men met up for amoro liaisons. Gay men were first allowed to dance together Montréal the Tropil Room of The Downbeat Club (1422 Peel Street) on the night of Augt 27, 1959, to celebrate the 24th birthday of legendary Montréal drag queen “La Monroe” – a.
The next day, more than 2, 000 gay men and their alli prott police harassment. Legendary Montréal gay activist John Banks – personal secretary of Marlene Dietrich for many years – forms La Briga Rose. Sce the Rabow Flag signed by Gilbert Baker for San Francis’s Gay Freedom Day Para June 1978 had not yet bee a symbol of the muny, Banks sewed together two bedsheets, dyed them pk and cut them to a triangular flag.
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Found by Ross Higgs and Jacqu Prce, the non-prof Quebec Gay Archiv regularly prent public lectur, mm and gallery exhibns, as well as poster exhibs.
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Wele to all gay travellers and tourists! The LGBTQ+ muny om the world over enjoys the atmosphere of eedom and secury that prevails Québec. * gay history quebec *
The buildg at 4067 Sat-Lrent Boulevard is a historic and important queer hub: addn to hog the Québec Gay Archiv, was also home to the image+natn LGBTQ+ film ftival and the Divers/Cé Pri Ftival. Montréal’s Village gets s name om gay bsman Bernard Rose, who opened the “Céma du Village” porn theatre, today Le Natnal ncert venue (1220 Sate-Cathere Street East). On May 16, Québec’s Natnal Assembly regniz Montréal’s Gay Village – more monly lled “Le Village” by lols – as the largt LGBTQ+ district North Ameri after the Castro San Francis and as an official place of refuge and emancipatn.
The RCMP, throughout the late 1950s and the entirety of the 1960s, kept tabs on homosexuals and the patrons of gay bars Ottawa and other ci. The force also worked wh the FBI's own surveillance of homosexuals and alerted the FBI when a spected homosexual had crossed the borr to the Uned Stat.
Canada se s first gay-posive anizatn, ASK, and first gay magaz: ASK Newsletter ( Vanuver), and Gay (by Gay Publishg Company of Toronto).
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