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THE REALLY GAY HISTORY TOUR

Glenn Tkach’s ‘Really Gay History Tour’ tells tragic and celebratory stori of a diversy that Vanuver failed to erase. * gay history vancouver *

THE REALLY GAY HISTORY TOUR. A historic gay village.

The gayt beer parlour town.

How a gay church clergy ma history. Serly funny gay humour – and s polil bent.

VANUVER WALK OUT OF THE CLOSET FOR GAY HISTORY TOUR

Learn about the Davie Street Village and the fight for LGBTQ and gay rights across Canada. * gay history vancouver *

Vanuver is home to Davie Street, one of North Ameri’s most vibrant gay villag. Our cy has openly gay policians and monuments to gay activists.

From the drag queen who fought for feral crimalizatn to North Ameri’s first openly gay church mister, Vanuver has played a larger-than-life role the queer liberatn movement. Rearched, signed, and guid by Forbidn Vanuver storyteller Glenn Tkach, the Really Gay History Tour weav a lourful history of people and events that sets the stage for the clive society we all now enjoy. So jo Glenn as you lgh, cry, celebrate and feel te PRIDE on the Really Gay History Tour.

REALLY GAY HISTORY TOUR OFFERS UNTOLD PAST OF VANUVER'S LGBTQ2+ MUNY

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You’ll quickly bt the myth of Patient Zero, hear tal of gay stggle at the Uned Church, and learn about drag kgs at the Quadra. You’ll disver the history of the cy’s very first PRIDE para at Nelson Park before arrivg the gaybourhood on Davie Street.

The walkg tour then strolls the historic Wt End as you disver protts, bookstore bombgs, Jim Deva Plaza, Vanuver’s secret gay village, and the transgenr mpaigner who blew the whistle on the biggt crime Vanuver history.

Book your Really Gay History Tour today. Brish ColumbiaVanuver walk out of the closet for gay history tourLs than 25 years before the pat dried on Vanuver's permanent rabow crosswalk, Davie Street was the target of gui Glenn Tkach, sharg the stori is personal and movgGlenn Tkach leads a group across Vanuver's first permanent rabow crosswalk durg Forbidn Vanuver's Really Gay History Tour.

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Canada’s Pacific Northwt jewel is a mec for foodi, cktail and ffee enthiasts, outdoor fns and bikg fans—and LGBTs. Caleb Donszelmann, openly gay ncierge for Op Hotel Vanuver, offers up some mts. * gay history vancouver *

(Kiri Marr)About 25 years before the pat had dried on Vanuver's first permanent rabow crosswalk on Davie Street the cy's Wt End, the heart of the cy's gay muny was the target of bombgs the 1980s. "Death threats were ma by people who were blamg the queer muny, for example, for the AIDS epimic, " Glenn Tkach, head storyteller for The Really Gay History Tour, told Jason D'Souza on Our Vanuver. Vanuver is also to home to some posive firsts, cludg Canada's first openly gay person ordaed a mastream Christian walkg tour don't jt ver the Wt End.

THE REALLY GAY HISTORY TOUR LOOKS AT VANUVER'S PROUD PAST

Gay and Lbian Archiv, and Tkach got to pore through there before was donated to the Cy of Vanuver and digized. " (Kiri Marr)An emotnal experienceThe Really Gay History Tour is much more than jt a sequence of dat and facts, acrdg to Tkach. "Forbidn Vanuver's Really Gay History TourGlenn Tkach says people are often surprised and moved by the stori he shar on his tourWh fil om Our Vanuver.

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For the send year a row, Forbidn Vanuver Walkg Tours and the Vanuver PRIDE Society brg the Really Gay History Tour back to the streets. For the send year a row, Forbidn Vanuver Walkg Tours and the Vanuver PRIDE Society brg the Really Gay History Tour back to the streets. The fact that a gay person n lead a walkg tour right through downtown Vanuver, drsed all pk, and publicly celebrate queer history, shows how far our cy has e, " says Tkach.

Some specific stops clu s of police raids, bookstore bombgs, the “Kiss-Ins” of Granville Street, Imperial Court ronatns, and the gayt beer parlour town.

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THE REALLY GAY HISTORY TOUR

The rult is his “Really Gay History Tour, ” or what he scrib as an adventure through the rich and tragic history of queer Vanuver.

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