September 26 Vancouver […]

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1974-09-26

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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.

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Gay TRIC information centre Vancouver

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Jonathan Baker Jack Wasserman

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Vancouver Social Planning Department Have a Gay Stay Transient Housing and Gay Information Service Vancouver City Council Vancouver Gay Information Service Van-Gay

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Vancouver Sun

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Jack Wasserman, Column, Vancouver Sun, four star ed., 7 September 1974, P- 43 Jack Wasserman, Column, Vancouver Sun, four star ed., 20 August 1974, p. 35;"Vancouver Groups Seek City Council Funding," Body Politic, no. 16 (1974), p. 8;" Vancouver Gay Information Service (Van-Gay)" vertical file, Canadian Lesbian and Gay Archives, Toronto;"Manager's Report," Gay Tide 2 (March 1975): back cover;"Gays Seeking City Money: Aldermen Seek More Data," Vancouver Sun, four star ed., 27 September 1974, p. 11;"Gay Aid Dynamite — Marzari," Vancouver Province, four star final ed., 27 September 1974, p. 9;The Editors, "Gays Confront City Hall," Gay Tide 2 (Autumn 1974): 1;"City Aid Asked by 'Gays,' " Vancouver Province, four star ed., 25 September 1974, p. 13;

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Jonathan Baker

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