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It would not be until 1981 that there would be an ‘official’ Pride Parade. The August 1973 edition of GATE's newspaper, Gay Tide, features coverage of "Gay Pride Week '73.", and was followed shortly thereafter by their first Pride parade in 1978.
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Vancouver's earliest Pride celebrations began when the Gay Alliance Toward Equality (GATE) organized a picnic and art exhibit in Ceperley Park. In an effort to get the crowd to disperse, police rode their motorcycles into the crowd, clubbing protestors, who in turn threw beer bottles at the police. to protest what had happened on the previous night. The very next day, 2,000 people took to the streets, blocking the corners of Ste. They were also forbidden from calling their lawyers. The men who were arrested were crowded into holding cells for more than eight hours, and forced to take venereal disease tests. This raid was more of a military operation then a normal police intervention: 50 police officers, wearing bulletproof vests with guns (including machine guns) drawn, went in and arrested 146 patrons, all homosexual men, as part of what was at the time the biggest mass arrest since Trudeau had declared the “War Measures Act” during the October Crisis. 22, 1977, Montreal police raided Truxx and Le Mystique, two gay bars on Stanley St. This resistance to the Olympic ‘cleanup’ set the stage for the massive protest which would occur in 1977. It was organized by CHAR and protested pre-Olympic cleanup raids. On Jun 19, more than 300 queers and supporters joined in one of the largest demonstrations up to that point. "In late May and early June, all the baths in Montreal were closed…For a lot of men in Montreal, their first experience of the great Olympic ‘clean-up’ was the sight of a policeman’s axe crashing through the door of their room at the baths." The Body PoliticĪn organization called the Comité homosexuel antirépression/Gay Coalition against Repression (CHAR) was set up with representatives from various Montreal gay groups bringing together French and English-speaking activists, lesbians and gay men, with sections of the left and the feminist movements.
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The event, which drew more than 60,000 people last year, included vendors, music, a rainbow-colored parade and a dramatic performance of "Break Through: Bringing Down the Barriers" - a UCF production dealing with the experiences of being gay in America.From Feb 1975 to June 1976, Police raids ramp up at Club Baths, Neptune Sauna and across gay and lesbian bars in Montreal's Stanley Street gay village, this event was widely perceived as mayor Jean Drapeau's attempts to "clean up" the city in advance of the 1976 Summer Olympics. The Come Out With Pride event, which was scrubbed in October because of rain, took place in Lake Eola Park in near-ideal weather. This is our justice." Sheehan said the city is working with Orange County officials to provide the same domestic partner registry rights to unmarried couples in the county. "This would codify our relationships as families," Sheehan said. Sheehan said the registry would be a historic moment for gays and lesbians in Orlando. Counties and cities charge couples a registry fee, usually about $50, said Mary Meeks, a member of the Orlando Anti-Discrimination Ordinance Committee that proposed the Orlando registry. Orlando would join Gainesville, Key West, Miami Beach, West Palm Beach, and Broward, Miami-Dade and Palm Beach counties which also have domestic partner registries. "These are simple, basic rights that any two people ought to have, and with our registry you will be able to simply and easily designate someone to make those decisions," Dyer said. They legally could visit their partners in the hospital, nursing homes or jails. The registry would give unmarried couples the authority to make health-care, funeral and educational decisions for their partners and children. "We were the first city in Central Florida to provide domestic partner benefits for our gay and lesbian city employees, and we're going to be the very first in Central Florida to have a domestic partner registry," Dyer said. Mayor Buddy Dyer and City Commissioner Patty Sheehanassured the crowd attending the Come Out With Pride event Sunday that Orlando was willing to take the next step in gay civil rights by creating a domestic partner reg istry that would give unmarried couples - gay and straight - some of the same rights as married couples.