Qmunity (officially Qmunity, BC's Queer, Trans, and Two-Spirit Resource Centre Society), formerly known as the Centre, is an LGBT community centre located on Bute Street in the
Davie Village
Davie Village (also known as Davie District or simply Davie Street) is a neighbourhood in the West End, Vancouver, West End of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. It is the home of the city's LGBT subculture, and, as such, is often considered ...
neighbourhood of the
West End of
Vancouver
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, British Columbia, Canada.
Activities and initiatives
Qmunity houses or operates a number of programs and initiatives, including the Vancouver
Pride House
Pride House is a dedicated temporary location which plays host to lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) athletes, volunteers and visitors attending the Olympics, Paralympics or other international sporting event in the host city. The firs ...
during the 2010 Winter Olympic Games; the Transgender Health Program, a program operated in cooperation with the
Vancouver Coastal Health
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regional health authority and which moved to Qmunity after
Vancouver General Hospital
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's Gender Clinic closed in 2002.
Pride House Vancouver
The Vancouver location of Pride House was housed within Qmunity.
During the
2010 Winter Olympics
)''
, nations = 82
, athletes = 2,626
, events = 86 in 7 sports (15 disciplines)
, opening = February 12, 2010
, closing = February 28, 2010
, opened_by = Governor General Michaëlle Jean
, cauldron = Catriona Le May DoanNancy GreeneWayne Gretz ...
, the Vancouver and
Whistler Pride Houses served as venues for LGBT sportspeople, coaches, visitors and their friends, families and supporters, and became the first Pride Houses at an Olympics.
Although both Pride Houses offered information and support services to LGBT athletes and attendees, the Whistler location in Pan Pacific Village Centre had a "celebratory theme", while the Vancouver venue emphasised education about Vancouver's
LGBT community
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and, for non-Canadian athletes, information about immigration to and
asylum
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Types of asylum
* Asylum (antiquity), places of refuge in ancient Greece and Rome
* Benevolent Asylum, a 19th-century Australian institution for housing the destitute
* Cities of Refuge, places of refuge in ancient Judea
...
in Canada, including "legal resources" from
Egale Canada
Egale Canada (formerly Equality for Gays And Lesbians Everywhere) is an advocacy organization founded in 1986 by Les McAfee to advance equality for Canadian lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people and their families, across Canada. ...
and the
(IGLA).
Notable visitors to Pride House Vancouver include
openly gay
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Framed and debated as a privacy issue, coming out of ...
Canadian Olympic swimmers
Mark Tewksbury
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and
Marion Lay
Marion Beverly Lay, (born November 26, 1948) is a former competitive swimmer who represented Canada in the 1964 Summer Olympics and 1968 Summer Olympics. Swimming the anchor leg for Canada's third-place team in the women's 4x100-metre frees ...
, as well as Vancouver mayor
Gregor Robertson and American
political satirist
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Stephen Colbert
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.
See also
*
List of LGBT community centres
Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender (LGBT) related organizations and conferences range from social and support groups to organizations that are political in nature. Some groups are independent, while others are officially recognized advocacy gro ...
References
External links
*
{{Coord missing, British Columbia
LGBT community centres
LGBT culture in Vancouver
Organizations based in Vancouver