The Lbian, Gay and Bisexual Vote a More Tolerant Canada - Volume 55 Issue 2
Contents:
- MORE WOMEN AND OPENLY GAY LEARS CANADIAN POLICS: ARE BARRIERS G DOWN?
- THE LBIAN, GAY AND BISEXUAL VOTE A MORE TOLERANT CANADA
MORE WOMEN AND OPENLY GAY LEARS CANADIAN POLICS: ARE BARRIERS G DOWN?
Alberta Premier Rachel Notley's NDP uc will be the most female Canadian history. And PEI Premier Wa MacLchlan, elected this week, is now Canada's send openly gay lear. He jos Ontar Premier Kathleen Wynne and Wildrose lear Danielle Smh this panel discsn about the future of women and gay people Canadian polics. * canadian political gay *
Meanwhile, Wa MacLchlan, elected Premier of PEI this week, is now Canada's send openly-gay provcial genr and sexual orientatn turned to non-issu polil mpaigns? Now, don't always e up to your face, but most of my mpaigns I've known about a whisper mpaign, I've known that there's homophobia lurkg, but really didn't feel like that.
I had a ndidate back 2012 make credibly tolerant statements agast gays the electn and that really has, I thk, driven a lot of the public dialogue and discsn and a lot of the legislative chang that happened Alberta the last three years. We changed the Val Statistics Act to make easier for transgenr dividuals get their intifitn changed, and we also jt recently passed legislatn that allows for stunts to tablish GSA's [gay-straight allianc] any school if they choose to do so.
THE LBIAN, GAY AND BISEXUAL VOTE A MORE TOLERANT CANADA
Monty McNghton recently said that you are pecially disqualified om implementg Ontar's new sex-ed curriculum, and you said that his ments were homophobic. Evangelil Prottants, most often the vanguard of antigay protts, have been a visible prence Canadian polil life, but they are much ls fluential than their Amerin s, nstutg ls than 10% of the overall populatn (Malloy, 2011).
At tim this has led Canadians to believe that their society is more acceptg than is, though this turn has helped legimize explicly homophobic polil disurse. Individual unns, mostly the public sector, began supportg lbian and gay claims the 1980s, and the next a good part of the overall labor movement was assertively backg the LGBT e and soon takg on issu of genr inty as well as sexual orientatn. This effectively postponed engagement wh the polilly and religly load qutn of marriage—an issue that also had much potential for broang anti-gay mobilizatn and dividg the LGBT movement.