Major LGBTQ+ parties Black & Blue Festival and Bal en blanc also keep up the tradition while making new moves. In August, Montréal Pride celebrates that history with all kinds of events and late-night parties where electronic music takes centre stage (along with the dancers, of course). No matter what season you find yourself in Montréal, there’s always dancing to be done. Check out daily happy hour 11am 7pm with 2-for-1 drinks. The attractive staff are all outfitted to fit the garage theme and the bartenders pour heavy while the drinks are cheap. Winter has its fair share of outdoor dancing fun too, namely Igloofest, welcoming globe-trotting DJs and melting the ice in the Old Port in late January and early February. The Garage one of Vegas’ best neighborhood gay bars, here you’ll find a friendly, local crowd, video poker, slots, pool and a variety of other bar games. Naturally, summertime comes packed with sure bets for great dancing, from internationally lauded weekly outdoor dance party Piknic Électronik every Sunday in Parc Jean-Drapeau to music festivals including the Festival International de Jazz de Montréal, outdoor two-day EDM fest îleSoniq Montreal, techno-focused electronic music and arts fest MUTEK and urban art and music fest Chromatic.
The Human Rights Campaign, an LGBTQ+ advocacy group, recently released a report, "Violence Against the Transgender and Gender Non-Conforming Community in 2020."ġ3 Action News contributed to the original story by Associated Press.Neither rain, nor sleet, nor dark of night shall keep us from dancing night and day, all year long. "Trans women of color have been targeted in what has been called an epidemic, and the Stonewall uprising happened in response to police harassment and brutality," Renna said in an email. "Pride was born of protest," said Cathy Renna, communications director of the National LGBTQ Task Force, seeing analogies in the pandemic and in common threads of the Black and LGBTQ+ rights movements.
The march took place on June 28, 1970, a year after the 1969 uprisings at the Stonewall Inn, a gay bar in New York, which were led by trans women of color.ĥ0 years later, there's scarcely a patch on Earth that doesn't host some type of Pride event. Discover short videos related to Unity mtl on TikTok. LAS VEGAS (KTNV) - Today marks 50 years since the first Pride march in our nation's history.