![]() Shania Twain was inspired to write “Man! I Feel Like a Woman”after watching a drag performance. ![]() Same-sex marriage would not become legal nationwide until July 20, 2005.Ĥ. On June 10, 2003, Ontario’s Michael Leshner and Michael Stark became Canada’s first same-sex couple to be legally married. It is regarded as the first LGBTQ+ publication in Canada, and North America.ģ. In 1918, poets and writers Elsa Gidlow and Roswell George Mills launched “Les Mouches fantastiques” in Montreal. But it wasn’t until the 1981 bathhouse raids in Toronto that the Pride movement (as we know it now) started north of the border.Ģ. The first Pride marches took place in a few American cities a year later, and Toronto held its gay picnic in 1971. Protests and riots ensued, and many people regard this to be the start of the modern gay rights movement in America. In 1969, the Stonewall Inn in New York City was raided by police. Test your knowledge about the Pride movement in pop culture, Canada and around the world…ġ.
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