
FRANÇOIS BELLEMARE | CANADA | 2025 | 16 MIN | FRENCH
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FRANÇOIS BELLEMARE | CANADA | 2025 | 16 MIN | FRENCH
Interview with Gilbert Higgins, one of the 146 victims of the police raid on the Truxx, a gay bar on Stanley Street in Montreal, on the night of October 22, 1977. The reaction it triggered became one of the precursor events to the creation of what was first called Le Village de l’Est (in contrast to the gay bar sector west of downtown), then Le Village gai, and now simply Le Village.
Active in journalism and poetry, François Bellemare is also the author of the satirical novel La renaissance de L’interlope (Sémaphore, 2022), a fiction set in 2029 in the Red Light District and the Village. Self-taught in everything and a graduate from Nowhere, he is curator of the exhibition L’Émergence du Village gai (Montréal 1974-1990), currently presented at Archives gaies du Québec (AGQ) to highlight the “foundation” of what was first called Le Village de l’Est (in contrast to the gay sector west of downtown), then Le Village gai, and now simply Le Village.
Archives gaies du Québec (AGQ)
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