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LGBTQ / GAY HISTORY CANADA
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Canada passed a bill that crimalized homosexualy May of 1969 before the Stonewall Rts took place the USA, yet the nversatn about the begngs of Pri often rema US-centric. A lbian, gay, or bisexual person born 1950 (age 72 2022) survived laws that crimalized their sexualy until the were 19, had their sexualy seen as a mental disorr until they were 29, survived the “u mache” era, which saw public service, RCMP, and ary LGBTQ employe targeted, vtigated, and purged om their jobs until they were 40 (Foy, 2018), would not have their human rights protected unr the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms until they were 45, and would not have legal rights to marry until they were aged 55 (Canadian Broadst Corporatn, 2012).
Poverty lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, queer, two-spir (LGBTQ2S+) populatns Canada: An tersectn review of the lerature. ) Lbian, gay, bisexual and trans health equali: Internatnal perspectiv on social work (pp. Lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr rights Canada.
In this se, by havg a Pri Hoe, Canada told a story that gay pri was an important part of Canadian natnal inty. As Miriam Cathere Smh argu Lbian and Gay Rights Canada, an important part of the story of the gradual improvement of LGBTQ* rights Canada is “the nstutnal entrenchment of the bill of rights and the attendant crease the judiciary’s pacy to police equaly issu” (4).
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Sylva Larocque, his study of marriage equaly Canada, not that while homophobia is still wispread Canada, “dramatic progrs has been ma regnizg their rights over the last 30 years, and pecially the last ” (12). As Tom Warner argu Never Gog Back, an issue wh cremental legal chang is that they do not addrs the unrlyg homophobia the Canadian cultural inty:.
Lbian and gay liberatn means g to a posive nscns of onelf and other gays and lbians. It requir a personal transformatn based on an unrstandg that gays and lbians are tght by our society var ways, both subtle and blatant, to hate and thereby opprs themselv. Internalized homophobia n lead LGBTQ* people to thk that their sire mak them somehow not fully persons wh Canadian society.