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The first Pride celebration in Edmonton was a small picnic and campfire held in 1980 at Camp Harris and was attended by about 75 participants. [3] [4] In 1981, following the police raid at the Pisces Spa, [5] a small group of queer Edmontonians participated in the Klondike Days Sourdough Raft Race with a raft by the name of S.S. Pisces.
By 1973, Pride events had expanded to several Canadian cities, including Montréal, Saskatoon, Toronto, and Winnipeg. [2] Historically, Pride celebrations were only held in major city centres but now occur in small rural communities in every corner of Canada. [3]
In some smaller cities, pride events do not feature the parade that is a traditional part of larger pride festivals; Waterloo Region's tri-Pride, for example, currently centres around an afternoon music festival in a city park.
August 9: CKMS-FM, a radio station in the Kitchener-Waterloo region of Ontario, launches Gay News and Views, Canada's first known LGBT-oriented radio program. [55] November 13: Jim Monk, an openly gay candidate for election to the Windsor Board of Education, loses the election. [56]
The Canadian Pride Curling Championships, also known as the Canadian Gay Curling Championships, is an annual national bonspiel organized by the Canadian Pride Curling Association (CPCA). First contested in 2006, by the Curling With Pride league in Edmonton, Alberta, the event features teams representing CPCA members, which are LGBTQ -friendly ...
Pride Week 1973 was a national LGBT rights event in Canada, which was held in August 1973. [1] The event, which took place from August 19 to 26, [ 2 ] was marked by LGBT-themed programming in several Canadian cities, including Vancouver , Toronto , Ottawa , Montreal , Saskatoon and Winnipeg . [ 1 ]
The Edmonton Queer History Project (EQHP) is a community-engaged research project focused on documenting, preserving, and making visible the history of Edmonton's 2SLGBTQ+ community. One of EQHP's most prominent initiatives is a map of 27 locations around Downtown Edmonton , each with historical significance to the local 2SLGBTQ+ community ...
In 1971, Canada's first gay rights march, the We Demand Rally, took place in Ottawa. The Body Politic, Canada's first gay liberation newspaper, was published in Toronto and continued for about 15 years. A short run documentary series, Coming Out, became Canada's first LGBT television series when it aired on Maclean-Hunter cable in Toronto in 1972.