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Talking Radical Radio & LGBT History Month

Posted on October 9, 2014 by Kevin Allen | Leave a comment

Tereasa Maillie and Kevin Allen from the Calgary Gay History Project are featured on Talking Radical Radio this week. Host Scott Neigh asks us about the origins of the project and the experiences we have had in doing research on Calgary’s Gay History. Talking Radical Radio is one of the podcasts on Rabble.ca’s podcast network.

The podcast is timely as October is LGBT History Month in North America. Founded in 1994, by Missouri high-school history teacher Rodney Wilson, the event was intended to highlight the lack of LGBTQ issues in the education curriculum.

October was chosen by Wilson because National Coming Out Day had already been established (October 11th), and October commemorated the first march on Washington by queer activists in 1979. LGBT History Month is intended to encourage honesty and openness about being lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender.

Queer history seems to be catching on. There is a new app called Quistory that showcases moments in the LGBTQ history. Check out this link to Quist on Huffington Post with 42 photos celebrating our human rights victories.

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Us on Alberta Primetime & Thank you!

Posted on September 18, 2014 by Kevin Allen | Leave a comment

We successfully concluded the Kickstarter Campaign on Monday, reaching our stretch goal, and ending with $20,051 of pledges from 163 backers. We are extremely grateful at the generosity of this community and honoured by your faith in this project. We have been contacted this week by some people who missed the Kickstarter deadline for donating. If you are in the same boat and still would like to contribute, please contact us directly.

Monday night also, CTV’s Alberta Primetime featured the campaign in a televised interview. You can watch host Shawna Randolph’s interview with Research Lead, Kevin Allen by clicking on the image below.

Earlier in June, Alberta Primetime’s other host, Michael Higgins, interviewed Calgary Gay History Project Researcher, Tereasa Maillie, along with Edmonton’s Darrin Hagen in connection to Edmonton’s 2014 Pride Celebrations. Take a look!

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Beautiful night for a walk and a kick, start…

Posted on August 28, 2014 by Kevin Allen | Leave a comment

We had over 100 participants on the Pride Week Calgary Gay History Walk last night – see photos below. People learned about downtown sites of significance to the LGBTQ community and we had a live tweeting conversation between Mayor Nenshi and gay history walkers about the lack of a Pride Flag flying at City Hall (one of our stops).

Walkers also picked up hot-off-the-press Kickstarter postcards for the Writing Calgary’s Gay History Campaign (pledge, pledge, pledge, please).

Thanks go to the anonymous donor who slipped me cash on the walk as well as to Polish Queer Historian, Bart, who gave me his book QueerWarsaw – what a treat! Finally, there was a lovely reception hosted by Calgary Outlink at the back patio of CommunityWise Resource Centre.

Come see us at the Calgary Gay History Festival Booth this Sunday at the Pride Festival from Noon – 6:00 PM.