After 33 years, the community standard bearer, Little Sister’s, has been sold to a local business man. Well connected to the community, the new owners will carry on the business that started back in 1983. I spoke with Bruce Smyth many weeks before the opening of Jim Deva Plaza and was alerted to a potential ...

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A week of festivities all comes down to this, the main event, the reason we celebrate Pride. The Parade has grown to epic proportions over the years and it’s expected the crowds will reach 650,000. This year a sitting Prime Minister will be marching in the Parade for the first time.  Justin Trudeau will march ...

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JIM DEVA PLAZA LAUNCH CELEBRATION SCHEDULE OF EVENTS After a couple of years of consultation with the City of Vancouver and community groups, which included several open houses, the Jim Deva Plaza will be ready for public use. Where: Davie and Bute Street When: Thursday, July 28th from 4:30-8:30 PM 4:30 PM: Family Activities 7:00 ...

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‘We are doing everything we can to move forward,’ says city planner Construction may have only just begun last Friday, May 13, 2016, but the new Jim Deva Plaza should be complete and ready for this year’s Pride celebrations in late July. “We’re going to be going non-stop to meet that Pride deadline,” says Karen Hoese, ...

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Approval comes with up to $2.3-million budget for phase one Gay activist Jim Deva was honoured at Vancouver city council Dec 16, 2015, as a driving force for freedom of sexuality and expression, an unrepentant rabble-rouser, a friend and a mentor. “He had a knack for making you instantaneously part of the family,” says Drew ...

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Remembering a community mentor, icon, warrior and friend When Jim Deva finally came out to Bruce Smyth, the man who would become his partner of 42 years, Smyth drove into a ditch. “I said, ‘Oh my god, me too!’ We discovered together,” Smyth says. It’s unlikely that the pair knew, in that moment of shared discovery, ...

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