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Davie Village (also Davie District or simply Davie Street) is a gay village or "gaybourhood" in the West End of Vancouver, Canada. It is the home of the city's gay subculture and is centred around Davie Street and roughly includes the area between Burrard and Jervis Streets. A gay village (also gay ghetto or gayborhood) is an urban geographic location with generally recognized boundaries where a large number of gay, lesbian, transgender, and bisexual people live. ...
The West End of the city of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada is on the small downtown peninsula neighbouring Stanley Park and the areas of Yaletown, Coal Harbour and the downtown business district. ...
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GAY can mean: Gay, a term referring to homosexual men or women The IATA code for Gaya Airport Category: ...
 Davie Village banners on Davie Street lampost. The sun banner was designed by artist Joe Average. Along Davie Street are a variety of shops, restaurants, services, and hotels catering to a variety of customers, as well as private residences. Davie Village is also home to the offices of Xtra! West, a biweekly LGBT newspaper. The Centre (formerly the Gay and Lesbian Centre) is located just off Davie Street on Bute. It provides a variety of services for the city's gay, lesbian, transgendered, and bisexual residents. The business with the most notoriety is Little Sister's Book and Art Emporium ("Little Sister's"), a gay and lesbian bookstore, because of its ongoing legal battles with Canada Customs that has received extensive national media coverage. Image File history File links Davie Village street banners, photo by John Trueman File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ...
Joe Average is a Canadian artist who lives in Vancouver, British Columbia. ...
Xtra!, Xtra! West and Capital Xtra! are gay magazines, on newsprint in tabloid format, published by Pink Triangle Press in Canada. ...
The initialism LGBT also GLBT is in use (since the 1990s) to refer collectively to Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender people. ...
Little Sisters Book and Art Emporium, also known as Little Sisters Bookstore, but usually called Little Sisters, is an independent bookstore in the Davie Village / West End of Vancouver, British Columbia, a predominantly gay community. ...
The Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) (French: Agence des services frontaliers du Canada - ASFC) is responsible for Canadas border operations. ...
The Davie Street Business Improvement Association coined the name "Davie Village" in 1999 and also commissioned banners from local artist Joe Average, which fly from lampposts along the street. The two-sided banners depict a rainbow flag on one side and a sun design by Average on the other. Many businesses and residents along Davie and in the West End generally also fly rainbow flags as a symbol of gay pride, and many of the covered bus stop benches and trash cans along Davie Street are painted bright pink. Joe Average is a Canadian artist who lives in Vancouver, British Columbia. ...
The Village hosts a variety of events during the year, including the Davie Street Festival which runs in conjunction with Vancouver's annual Gay Pride Parade, during which sections of the street are closed to motor traffic. Davie Day is also held each year in early September, to celebrate local businesses and the community itself. This Day is designed to build awareness and promote the surrounding businesses, and is focused around Jervis to Burrard Street.
Davie Street - and, by extension, the Village - is named in honour of A.E.B. Davie, eighth Premier of British Columbia from 1887 to 1889. Alexander Edmund Batson Davie, who is usually referred to as A. E. B. Davie, (November 24, 1847 - August 1, 1889) was a British Columbia politician and lawyer, and was premier of British Columbia from 1887 until his death. ...
This is a list of the premiers of British Columbia, Canada, since it joined Confederation in 1871. ...
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