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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

Montréal was jt a ty outpost of the French Empire when a gay ary dmmer wh the French garrison was charged by the Orr wh mtg “the worst of crim” and sentenced to ath. 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. 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.

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Canada se s first gay-posive anizatn, ASK, and first gay magaz: ASK Newsletter ( Vanuver), and Gay (by Gay Publishg Company of Toronto). Gay was the first perdil to e the term 'Gay' the tle and expand quickly, cludg outstrippg the distributn of Amerin publitns unr the name Gay Internatnal.

The were quickly followed by Two (by Gayboy (later Kamp) Publishg Company of Toronto). May 14: Canada crimaliz homosexual acts between nsentg adults wh the passage of the Crimal Law Amendment Act, 1968-69.

Augt 28: We Demand, Canada's first gay public prott, occurs Ottawa on Parliament Hill. Police crackdowns agast gay bars Montreal's Stanley Street gay village, wily perceived as mayor Jean Drape's attempts to "clean up" the cy advance of the 1976 Summer Olympics, lead to rts. May 10: In the Brish Columbia provcial electn, Robert Douglas Cook be Canada's first openly gay polil ndidate.

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He garners 126 vot Wt Vanuver-Howe Sound as a ndidate of the Gay Alliance Toward Equaly. June: Kenh Zeller is murred Toronto's High Park, a hate crime which spurs the Toronto District School Board, Zeller's employer, to implement one of Canada's first programs to bat anti-gay discrimatn and vlence. Febary 29: Svend Robson be Canada's first elected Member of Parliament to e out as gay.

Augt 21: Ala Brosse, a straight man Ottawa, is attacked by a gang of teenagers who wrongly assumed he was gay, while walkg home om his job at the Châte Lrier. Chris Lea ws the learship of the Green Party of Canada, beg the first openly gay lear of a polil party Canada.

October 28: Glen Murray is elected mayor of Wnipeg, beg Canada's and North Ameri's first openly gay mayor of a major cy.