Homosexual Canadians enjoy much more eedom and societal acceptance than they did 1965, when a Northwt Terrori man was thrown prison after admtg he was gay. tak a look at some of the chang that have occurred sce then.
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To mark the 50th anniversary of Bill C-150—which reprented a signifint step forward for gay rights—Maclean’s looks back on five historic imag om the past five s. * 1971 first gay rights protest canada *
Queeri is a weekly lumn by CBC Arts producer Peter Knegt that queri 2SLGBTQ art, culture and/or inty through a personal Augt 28, 1971, roughly 200 activists me together Ottawa for the first large-sle gay rights monstratn Canadian history. It would bee known as the "We Demand Rally, " as centred around the monstrators prentg a 13-page document to Parliament that ntaed a list of 10 mands for gay and lbian rally was anized by two pneerg rights groups, Toronto Gay Actn and the Communy Homophile Associatn of Toronto. The groups llaborated wh 12 other anizatns om across Canada (unr the name "Augt 28 Gay Day Commtee") to draft the mands: Remove and replace "gross cency" and "cent acts" om the Crimal Co; change " private" the Crimal Co to mean "a ndn of privacy.