Thanks everyone who me out to the Gay History Walk last night - what a crowd and great eveng! On the walk I heard that Pri Calgary anizers are expectg 35,000 - 40,000 people out for the para on Sunday. Amazg. So I dug to the vlts and asked lleagu a few qutns to terme…
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Calgary Pri lnch tomorrow, and the Calgary Gay History Project has a full slate of activi durg the next ten days. Here are the offergs: Friday, Augt 23rd: The Our Past Matters: Stori of Gay Calgary e-book release! Sunday, Augt 25th: as part of Memorial Park Pri 1:30-2:30 PM - Calgary Gay History Lecture at the Memorial Park… * calgary gay pride 2019 *
Brave begngs of Calgary Pri and gay rights movement. Did you know the first Calgary Pri Para was held 1990 and that many atten wore paper bags over their head for fear of beg regnized as gay? Gay History Walk.
Allen is also the rearch lead for the Calgary Gay History Project, which aims to unrstand historil life for LGBTQ+ people of Calgary’s past. The anizatn’s Artistic Director Jt Many Fgers will be talkg wh Waawaate Fobister and Marshal Vielle about Indigeno queer spac, growg up gay on the Rerv and what means to search for self-inty away om the Rerve.
The Rocky Mounta Sgers, Calgary’s gay choir, performed, and post-rally, the assembled retired to a lol bar. The cy was a polarized uproar bee Mayor Al Duerr had gone out on a polil limb and signed a proclamatn clarg June 16-23, 1991 as the first “Gay Rights Week. He told the gathered assembly that the greatt barrier facg gays is their visibily and silence.
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Calgary's Stephen Avenue Walk is about to get more permanently lourful wh gay and trans Pri flags pated on the pestrian mall that cuts across the cy's downtown. * calgary gay pride 2019 *
In 1992, the Gay and Lbian muny proclaimed, “Gay and Lbian Pri Week” themselv, takg ads out public newspapers whout any mayoral or civic endorsement.
Calgary Pri lnch tomorrow, and the Calgary Gay History Project has a full slate of activi durg the next ten days.