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September 26 Vancouver […]
When
1974-09-26
Description
September 26 Vancouver Representatives of the Vancouver Gay Information Service (Van-Gay) appeared before City Council's Standing Committee on Social Services to seek a grant for $26,720 to help support Van-Gay's programs, which included the Have a Gay Stay Transient Housing and Gay Information Service, a twenty-four-hour crisis centre, a drop-in centre, a drug counselling program, a consciousness-raising seminar, and a speaker's bureau. The group's proposal was sent to the Social Planning Department for study and comment. Van-Gay had been seeking funding assistance from the City since July 1974, but could not get a substantive response. Its quest for funding had been ridiculed by Vancouver Sun columnist Jack Wasserman, who in his August 20 column published a scornful poem written by Senior Social Planner Jonathan Baker, a city official to whom Van-Gay's report had been referred. This event led to gay protests against Wasserman and Baker. Vancouver's Director of Social Planning turned down the request for funding on November 4,1974.
