Davie Village (also known as Davie District or simply Davie Street) is a
 neighbourhood in the West End of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. 
It is the home of the city's gay subculture, and, as such, is often 
considered a gay village, or gaybourhood. Davie Village 
is centred on Davie Street and roughly includes the area between Burrard
 and Jervis streets. 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; A.E.B's brother Theodore was also Premier, from 1892 to 
1895.
Along Davie Street are a variety of shops, restaurants, 
services, and hotels catering to a variety of customers, in addition to 
private residences. 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
 have received extensive national media coverage. Many businesses and 
residents along Davie Street 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 garbage cans along Davie Street are painted bright pink.
The
 Village hosts a variety of events during the year, including the Davie 
Street Pride 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.
The 
Davie Street Business Association coined the name "Davie Village" in 
1999 and also commissioned banners from local artist Joe Average, which 
fly from lampposts in the district. The two-sided banners depict a 
rainbow flag on one side and a sun design by Average on the other.
Davie
 Village is also home to the offices of Xtra! West, a biweekly LGBT 
newspaper, Qmunity (formerly the Gay and Lesbian Centre) which provides a
 variety of services for the city's lesbian, gay, bisexual, and 
transgender residents, and the Vancouver Pride Society, which puts on 
the annual Pride Parade and Festival.
Sunday, July 3, 2022
In Davie Village in Downtown Vancouver. Autumn of 2018.
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