Gay pride 2022 montreal
June is Pride Month around the globe, including in many communities across Canada such as Toronto, Vancouver and Montreal. Every June since 1973 Canadians contain been gathering for Identity festival Month to celebrate the progress towards equality and to fight for progress not yet made.
We include gathered some resources so that you can absorb more about, celebrate and better support 2SLGBTQAI+ people in your community.
History of Pride in Canada
Canada has a rich history and turning points in the struggle for and eventual celebration of 2SLGBTQAI+ rights. Vancouver is hosting their 44th annual Pride Pride in July and Toronto is hosting its 41st. Montreal’s Pride Parade is one of the largest in Canada including more than 12,000 marchers with a crowd estimated at 325,000 people.
Throughout history Event parades in Canada weren’t always a big celebration as they are today. There were a lot of riots and protests to get where we are today. Here is a short timeline of some of the Event events that shaped today.
Canada’s first Gay Liberation March and March was on August 28, 1971. There were about 100 people from Ottawa, Montreal and Toronto all gathered in the rain at Parliament Hill
Montreal Pride parade to move on as planned Sunday after 2022 cancellation
The leader of the organization behind Montreal’s LGBTQ+ pride festival says the city’s pride celebration will go on as planned Sunday after its abrupt cancellation last year.
The 2022 edition of the parade was cancelled just hours before it was supposed to begin in downtown Montreal.
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An independent report later found the incident was due to a misunderstanding among Montreal Pride festival personnel after they discovered 96 of the 200 volunteers needed to serve security for the procession were never recruited.
The announce identified systemic communications and governance issues within the festival organization and recommended 13 reforms to deal with them.
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Montreal Pride Executive Director Simon Gamache says the organization has since fixed all of the problems that scuttled last year’s parade.
He says Montreal Pride has all of
Montreal Pride Parade draws record crowd after abrupt cancellation of 2022 event
There was a festive mood across downtown Montreal on Sunday as the city’s Pride parade drew a record number of participants one year after the 2022 event was abruptly cancelled.
Simon Gamache, head of procession organizer Pride Montreal, said around 15,500 people participated in the parade, a tape for the event.
“Why are we here today? First of all, it’s because we’re proud of who we are and we wish to show that we’re proud of who we are,” Gamache said in a speech ahead of the celebration. “As well, it’s because we yearn to commemorate the struggles and the victories of the past, but above all, it’s because there are still too many injustices towards the 2SLGBTQIA+ communities, here and elsewhere.”
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Montreal Mayor Valerie Plante participated in the parade, riding on a floa
Historic Montréal LGBTQ+ milestones
1648
Montréal was just a tiny outpost of the French Empire when a gay military drummer with the French garrison was charged by the Direct with committing “the worst of crimes” and sentenced to death.
The drummer’s experience was spared after Jesuits in Québec City intervened on his behalf, and he was given a choice by the Roman Catholic Bishop of Québec: die or develop the first executioner of New France.
The unidentified drummer took the executioner job.
1869
The first recorded same-sex attracted establishment in North America was Montrealer Moise Tellier’s “apples and cake shop” on Craig Street (now Saint-Antoine Street) near Saint-Laurent Boulevard, where men met up for amorous liaisons.
1968
Between 1968 and 1983, Montréal legend Denise Cassidy – better acknowledged as Babyface, her nickname inherited from her brief career as a pro wrestler – managed some of the city’s first lesbian bars: La Source, La Guillotine, Baby Tackle Disco, Chez Toddler Face and Tackle de bébé (1486 René-Levesque Boulevard West), which closed in 1983.
1973
Disco’s Second City, Montréal was home to famed Lime Light discotheque
Launch of the Fierté Montréal Festivities from August 1 to 7 at the Esplanade of the Olympic Park, Downtown and in the Village
This year again, we will be “together for all” in the streets, on stages and through our community initiatives!
Montréal, July 26, 2022─ The Montréal Pride Festival, presented by TD in collaboration with Casino de Montréal, officially unveiled today the festivities of the French-speaking world’s largest gathering of sexually and gender-diverse people as well as the top ten demands Montréal Pride is advocating for in 2022.
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“The Montréal Pride Festival is finally back in all of its exuberance, vitality and beauty! After difficult times, our communities need to come together more than ever to celebrate,” said Simon Gamache, Executive Director of Montréal Pride. “Inclusive, committed and ambitious, Montréal Pride aspires to always be more representative of the diversity of the 2SLGBTQIA+ communities. We are thrilled that close to 200 organizations will be participating in the Community Days on August 5 and 6 in the Village,” he added. “Also, dozens of projects for and by the communities will be happ