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queercanada · 1 year

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always remember gay men are the reason we dont have to pay for public bathrooms in canada

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queercanada · 3 years

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Front page of Twenty Minutes, February 1991

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queercanada · 3 years

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Pride history posts on here seem almost exclusively to revolve around Stonewall which can leave the impression that America is the only place where anything important ever happened and obviously is not true so I have compiled a few links where you can learn about LGBTQ history in other countries! Feel free to add

The Brunswick Four and the Toronto raids in Canada 🇨🇦

Queer icons like Virginia Wolf, Oscar Wilde, and Freddie Mercury in Britain 🇬🇧

Cultural revolution in Weimar Germany 🇩🇪

The drag scene in Nigeria 🇳🇬

Gay and lesbian Mardi Gras in Australia 🇦🇺

Frida Kahlo and Mexicos fraught history 🇲🇽

Gay samurai in Japan 🇯🇵

Queer narratives erased by colonialism in Pakistan 🇵🇰

The modern world’s first legal same-sex marriages in the Netherlands 🇳🇱

The honoured Mahu (transgender individuals) in traditional Hawaiian culture 🌺

Hidden queer communities in communist Poland 🇵🇱

Husbands in ancient Egypt 🇪🇬

The Athens pride festival in Greece 🇬🇷

The Homosexual Movement of Liberation in Chile 🇨🇱

Gay rights protests in India 🇮🇳

#reblog #(first link is specifically canadian but all are very interesting!)

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queercanada · 4 years

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is there… anything about alberta?? at all?? not asking to be rude, im from alberta and i wanna know if we contributed to lgbt history in canada

Of course there is!! Unfortunately it is true that a lot of the bigger pieces of LGBT history center around cities such as Toronto/Montreal/Vancouver, so I’ve had a much more difficult time finding media both about rural areas and about provinces that aren’t Ontario/Quebec/British Columbia. But gay communities have existed in every corner of the country, of course - it’s just harder to find.

Most of what I’ve stumbled across has been in more academic books. The book “Queer Youth in the Province of the Severely Normal” by Gloria Filax deals with queer youth in Alberta, which might interest you. (I believe it was published in 2006 and deals with issues mainly occuring in the 90s). I’ve only skimmed it, but there is definitely some interesting commentary on LGBT culture in Alberta and quotes about what it is like to be gay there! If you are by any chance a student, you may have access to the text for free through your institution. If not, most public libraries should also be able to get it for you through inter-library loans.

If possible, I will try to give it a deeper read-through when I have the time, and post interesting tidbits or facts on here. I do very much want to be more inclusive of communities outside of the three big cities!

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queercanada · 4 years

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Princess Diana shaking the hand of an AIDS victim with no gloves on, a move that would work to reduce AIDS stigma and help prove that AIDS is not spread by skin to skin contact. 1991, Toronto, Canada.

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queercanada · 5 years

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LGBT figures in Canada - Jenna Talackova (center)

In 2010, Jenna Talackova became the first transgender woman to compete in an international beauty pageant, when she represented her native Canada in the 2010 International Queen beauty competition in Thailand. Talackova would then go on to represent Canada in the 2012 Miss Universe pageant.

#jenna talackova #trans #trans woman #canada #lgbt history #canadian history #lgbt #photos #british columbia

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queercanada · 6 years

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Canadian Heritage Minutes honours Jim Egan in their first video on LGBTQ rights.

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queercanada · 6 years

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It’s very frustrating living here. I would like to be in a bigger city, where there is a gayer community… but I can’t deny that living here for the last seventeen years or so has made me what I am. I can’t say I’d change it. I’d be a different person if it was all different, but it’s all worked out for the better I think, hard as it may be, to have done that. But I’m happy, the happiest I’ve ever been now, in spite of the frustration, you know, because, I think, it’s an internal thing. Whether I’m in Toronto, here or, or Timbuktu, if I’m still me, what’s the problem?

Michael, a gay man from Newfoundland and Labrador, gave this quote as part of a series of interviews about LGBT+ people living in rural areas, called “Out Our Way” (Accessible here on the Archives of Lesbian Oral Testimony). 1990.

#quotes #lgbt #gay #newfoundland #newfoundland and labrador #rural #canada #lgbt canada #queer canada #gay canada #queer #1990s #community #gay community #identity #lgbt history #queer history

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queercanada · 6 years

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2002 - In Oshawa, Ontario, a 17-year-old high school student (Marc Hall, left) at Durham Catholic District School Board took his school to court over their refusal to let him attend prom with his boyfriend. After a two day court hearing, it was ruled on May 10th that Hall could attend prom with a male partner. This event was a milestone in Canadian history, and has inspired both a movie and a play. The documentary covering this event can be viewed here. (x) Warning: this documentary does contain homophobia.

#16 years ago today!#marc hall #ontario #queer history #lgbt history #law #legal cases #oshawa #prom #gay #lgbt #canada #canadian history #queer canada #gay canada #photos #recent #2000s

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queercanada · 6 years

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The Brunswick Four (Minus One): this was a group of lesbian women who took the stage at the Brunswick House Tavern in Toronto, during October 1974. They sang a parody of the song “I Enjoy Being a Girl”, with the following lyrics: *warning for (reclaimed) slurs*

When I see a man who’s sexist

and does something that I don’t like

I just tell him that he can fuck off

I enjoy being a dyke.

I don’t dress up cute and frilly

and in clothing that I don’t like.

I just go in my jeans and stompers,

I enjoy being a dyke.

I’ve always been a liberated woman

I fight for the revolution now.

I snuggle and I cuddle with my sisters,

and I don’t need a man to show me how.

I’ve always been an uppity woman

I refuse to run - I stand and strike

Cuz I’m gay and I’m proud and I’m angry

and I enjoy being a dyke.

This event caused three of the women to be arrested, and they were harassed verbally and physically by the police. The court cases that followed were high profile and sometimes cited as an early galvanizing moment for the local queer community. (x) (x)

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queercanada · 6 years

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Homosexuality cuts across racial lines, religious divisions, and socioeconomic classes... Gay people claim nothing more than what most straight people enjoy: the right to human dignity and human respect, the right to love and be loved in an atmosphere of tolerance and respect. The fight to gain social acceptance for homosexuals and homosexuality is a matter of human rights.

Carsey Yee, “Closets for clothes not people”, The Varsity, March 1, 1990. Canada.

#lgbt #quotes #1990s #lgbt history #queer history #gay #equal rights #acceptance #queer #lgbtq2+#lgbtqa #canada #queer canada #lgbt canada

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queercanada · 6 years

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The Toronto bathhouse raids, called “Operation Soap” by the police, took place in 1981, which resulted in the arrest of nearly three hundred gay men. Demonstrations were quick to be organized within Toronto. (x)

#videos #lgbt history #queer history #homophobia #gay #queer #lgbt #canada #canadian history #queer canada #lgbt canada #gay canada #toronto #gay toronto #bathhouse raids

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queercanada · 6 years

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LGBT Artists in Canada: René Highway

René Highway was a Cree dancer from Manitoba, who wrote and choreographed a multimedia production called “New Song… New Dance” with his brother, Tomson Highway. The dance focused on the experiences of gay Indigenous males, spanning residential school incidents and later city experiences. René Highway died of AIDs related causes in 1990. (x)

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queercanada · 6 years

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LGBT History in Canadian Film: Lianna (1983)

Notably ahead of its time, this movie featured a married woman who became involved in a relationship with another woman. After coming to terms with her sexuality, she leaves her husband to lead a more authentic life. Although the film is dated, it is still recognized as an important development in LGBT Canadian film.

#lianna #lgbt history #canadian history #canadian film #queer canada #lgbt movies #lesbian movies #lesbian #1980s #photos #canadian movies #canada #film #lgbt film #lesbian film

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queercanada · 6 years

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A pair of drag queens at the 1989 gay pride parade in Vancouver.

Photo from the B.C. Gay and Lesbian Archives. (x)

#drag queens #drag culture #vancouver #vancouver pride #pride parade #queer #1980s #lgbt history #queer history #british columbia #photos #drag

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queercanada · 6 years

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These are photos taken in the West End of Vancouver, a notorious gay area, during the 1950s. These are part of the B.C. Gay and Lesbian Archives. (x)

#vancouver #west end vancouver #lgbt history #1950s #queer history #canada #canadian history #lgbt #queer #gay #gay history #lgbt canada #queer canada #photos #black and white

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queercanada · 6 years

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Petition information:

PETITION TO THE GOVERNMENT OF CANADA

Whereas:

Canadian Blood Services (CBS) will not accept blood donations from men who have sex with men, if they had a male sexual partner within a year;

The ban focuses on gender and sexual identity over sexual behaviours more likely to indicate risk of sexual disease, despite the fact CBS screens all blood from all donors for a variety of factors, including HIV and other sexually transmitted diseases;

The ban creates and reinforces negative stigma surrounding men who have sex with men, and prevents potentially healthy donors from donating blood; and

CBS misgenders trans women as men for the purposes of blood donation and focuses on their gender affirmation surgery status, despite there not being a single documented case of a trans person donating infected blood.

We, the undersigned, concerned citizens, call upon the government of Canada to act now to repeal the blood ban against men who have sex with men.

Sign the petition here.

This petition is open until July 17, 2018. It needs a minimum of 500 signatures before it can be presented to Canada’s House of Commons (it currently has ~400 signatures).

#reblog #petitions #discrimination

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