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[[File:DavieVillage-1.png|250px|thumb|Davie Village lamppost banners]]
'''Davie Village''' (also known as '''Davie District''' or simply '''Davie Street''') is a neighbourhood in the [[West End, Vancouver|West End]] of [[Vancouver]], [[British Columbia]], Canada. It is the home of the city's [[LGBT]] 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 Street|Burrard]] and Jervis streets. Davie Street—and, by extension, the Village—is named in honour of [[Alexander Edmund Batson Davie|A.E.B. Davie]], eighth [[List of premiers of British Columbia|Premier of British Columbia]] from 1887 to 1889; A.E.B's brother [[Theodore Davie|Theodore]] was also Premier, from 1892 to 1895.

==Overview==
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 Border Services Agency|Canada Customs]] that have received extensive national media coverage.<ref>{{cite web|title=Little Sisters Book and Art Emporium v. Canada (Minister of Justice)|url=http://www.sgmlaw.com/en/about/LittleSistersBookandArtEmporiumv.CanadaMinisterofJustice.cfm|publisher=Sack, Goldblatt, Mitchell LLP|access-date=20 May 2012|archive-date=3 November 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111103051908/http://www.sgmlaw.com/en/about/LittleSistersBookandArtEmporiumv.CanadaMinisterofJustice.cfm|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=History of Little Sister's Book & Art Emporium|url=http://www.littlesisters.ca/docscc/index_court.html#lsdoc18|access-date=20 May 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130805220436/http://www.littlesisters.ca/docscc/index_court.html#lsdoc18|archive-date=5 August 2013|url-status=dead}}</ref> 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.

===Scene===
* [[Numbers (Vancouver)]]
* [[The Junction (Vancouver)]]
* [[Pumpjack Pub]]

===Festivals===
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]].

==Business Association==
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.<ref>{{cite web|title=Experiencing Vancouver's West End|url=http://www.westendbia.com/|publisher=West End BIA|access-date=20 May 2012}}</ref>

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 [[Vancouver Pride Festival|Pride Parade and Festival]].

== Sex work history ==
In the 1960s, after the removal of the [[Chinatown, Vancouver|Dupont]] and Alexander Street Districts, Vancouver's sex workers relocated to the streets of the [[West End, Vancouver|West End]].<ref>{{Cite book|last=Francis|first=Daniel|title=Red Light Neon: A History of Vancouver's Sex Trade|publisher=Subway Books|year=2006|isbn=978-0973667523|location=Vancouver BC|pages=1–192}}</ref> By the 1970s, over 150 workers could be seen walking on and around Davie Street from twelve to three AM on a regular occasion.<ref name=":3">{{Cite web|title=StackPath|url=https://xtramagazine.com/power/back-when-the-west-end-had-sex-worker-strolls-13044|access-date=2021-04-05|website=xtramagazine.com}}</ref> By the 1970s, the area had a visible sex work scene, and was coined the “Prostitution Capitol of Canada”.<ref name=":2">Cole, Dale, J. (Director). (1984). ''Hookers on Davie'' [Video file]. Canada: Spectrum Films. Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h3ixQS_Ihdk</ref> [[Jamie Lee Hamilton]], a former worker within the area, claims in a ''The Volcano'' article that the neighbourhood was “dignified outdoor brothel culture".<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|date=2019-05-17|title=Vancouver's Anti-Sex Work Gentrification Projects are a Form of Imperialism|url=http://thevolcano.org/2019/05/17/vancouvers-anti-sex-work-gentrification-projects-are-a-form-of-imperialism/|access-date=2021-04-05|website=The Volcano|language=en-US}}</ref> The working population included both cisgender, transgender, [[two-spirit]], and crossdressing individuals of different ages and ethnicities; many of which first came to the street as early as twelve years old, and since, have built a community with their peers, creating bonds by working together and looking out for each other's safety.<ref>{{Cite news|last=Lyons|first=Tara|date=2017|title=The impact of construction and gentrification on an outdoor trans sex work environment: Violence, displacement and policing|work=Sexualities Article|url=https://www.powerottawa.ca/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/Lyons-et-al-2017.pdf|access-date=5 April 2021}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|date=2014-07-11|title=Advocates seek Vancouver apology and memorial for displaced West End sex workers|url=https://www.straight.com/news/89556/advocates-seek-vancouver-apology-and-memorial-displaced-west-end-sex-workers|access-date=2021-04-05|website=The Georgia Straight|language=en}}</ref> In 1980, when Davie Street started to generate profit off of queer owned properties and business aesthetics, the visible state of the sex work scene became more and more unwanted. Within little time, the removal of this image became the main focus of erasure. In preparation for the 1986 World Fair, Davie Street soon began sculpting an image of what they felt suited the ideal gay community, which included the forceful displacement of the West Ends’ sex work community.<ref name=":1">{{Cite news|last=Ouspenski|first=Andrei, WISH Drop in Center Society|date=6 May 2015|title=Sex Work: Transitioning, Retiring and Exiting|work=TRE Report|url=https://wish-vancouver.net/content/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/SexWork-TRE-REPORT_MAY-6-2015.pdf|access-date=5 April 2021}}</ref> In 1983, a group called the Concerned Residents of the West End (CROWE), consisting of primarily white gay men and women, worked with the city to get a BC Supreme Court injunction to displace sex workers.<ref name=":1" /> Workers in the area were pushed into [[Yaletown]], then [[Mount Pleasant, Vancouver|Mount Pleasant]], where they were repeatedly protested by "Shame the Johns vigilantes", down East Broadway, and eventually into the [[Downtown Eastside]], where already vulnerable sex workers are more open to violence and abuse than ever before.<ref name=":0" /> This relocation also contributed many of the [[Missing and murdered Indigenous women|Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls (MMIWG)]] cases that were largely tied to serial killer [[Robert Pickton]] in the early 2000s.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Women working in Vancouver sex trade were seen as "disposable," inquiry hears - NEWS 1130|url=https://www.citynews1130.com/2018/04/04/b-c-hearings-start-with-repeated-call-for-more-time-for-missing-women-inquiry/|access-date=2021-04-05|website=www.citynews1130.com}}</ref><ref name=":3" /> Apart from the annual Red Umbrella March and [[Women's Memorial March]], the history of the West Ends’ sex work community remains largely forgotten. While portraying an accepting and inclusive LGBTQ2A+ environment, the history remains intentionally masked with little memorabilia of those impacted by the erasure.<ref name=":1" />

=== Significant sites ===

* West End Sex Worker Memorial: Corner of Jervis and Pendrell Street<ref>{{Cite web|date=2016-09-19|title=City of Vancouver unveils West End Sex Workers Memorial|url=https://www.straight.com/news/785351/city-vancouver-unveils-west-end-sex-workers-memorial|access-date=2021-04-04|website=The Georgia Straight|language=en}}</ref>

=== Supporting businesses ===

* [[Little Sister's Book and Art Emporium|Little Sisters Book and Art Emporium]]<ref name=":3" />
* Speakeasy Bar and Grill<ref name=":2" />

=== Media documentation ===

* ''[[Hookers on Davie]]''

==See also==
* [[Bank Street (Ottawa)]]
* [[Church and Wellesley|Church and Wellesley Village, Toronto]]
* [[Gay Village, Montreal]]
* [[LGBT culture in Vancouver]]
* [[Liliget Feast House]], a former Indigenous restaurant that was situated on Davie Street

==References==
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==External links==
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*[http://davievillage.ca/ Official Davie Village website]

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