Steve Bull once raced agast time to try to save the memoirs of one of Mae's gay rights pneers. His trip led him down memory lane.
Contents:
- LGBTQ / GAY HISTORY CANADA
- RACG TO PRERVE THE HISTORY OF MAE’S 1ST GAY RIGHTS ANIZATN
- RIGHTS OF LGBTI PERSONS
LGBTQ / GAY HISTORY CANADA
Learn about the Davie Street Village and the fight for LGBTQ and gay rights across Canada. * lgbt canada history *
The RCMP, throughout the late 1950s and the entirety of the 1960s, kept tabs on homosexuals and the patrons of gay bars Ottawa and other ci. The force also worked wh the FBI's own surveillance of homosexuals and alerted the FBI when a spected homosexual had crossed the borr to the Uned Stat. Canada se s first gay-posive anizatn, ASK, and first gay magaz: ASK Newsletter ( Vanuver), and Gay (by Gay Publishg Company of Toronto).
Gay was the first perdil to e the term 'Gay' the tle and expand quickly, cludg outstrippg the distributn of Amerin publitns unr the name Gay Internatnal.
May 14: Canada crimaliz homosexual acts between nsentg adults wh the passage of the Crimal Law Amendment Act, 1968-69. Police crackdowns agast gay bars Montreal's Stanley Street gay village, wily perceived as mayor Jean Drape's attempts to "clean up" the cy advance of the 1976 Summer Olympics, lead to rts. June: Kenh Zeller is murred Toronto's High Park, a hate crime which spurs the Toronto District School Board, Zeller's employer, to implement one of Canada's first programs to bat anti-gay discrimatn and vlence.
RACG TO PRERVE THE HISTORY OF MAE’S 1ST GAY RIGHTS ANIZATN
* lgbt canada history *
Augt 21: Ala Brosse, a straight man Ottawa, is attacked by a gang of teenagers who wrongly assumed he was gay, while walkg home om his job at the Châte Lrier. October 28: Glen Murray is elected mayor of Wnipeg, beg Canada's and North Ameri's first openly gay mayor of a major cy.
November 17: In one of Canada's most notor anti-gay hate crim, Vanuver rint Aaron Webster is asslted and killed Stanley Park by four young offenrs.
May 17: Gay MLA Lorne Mayenurt is reelected Vanuver-Burrard the Brish Columbia provcial electn, and gay ndidate Nicholas Simons is elected to his first term Powell River-Sunshe Coast. Mayenurt's victory is not falized until early June, however, due to a reunt battle wh gay challenger Tim Stevenson. September 29: At an all-ndidat bate staged for a high school stunt dience Sudbury durg the 2008 feral electn, pennt ndidate David Popcu rponds to a qutn about same-sex marriage by statg that "homosexuals should be executed".
RIGHTS OF LGBTI PERSONS
History of Pri Toronto and across Canada. Protts, celebratns and paras for lbian, gay, bisexual and trans rights. * lgbt canada history *
January 10: In a lg by the Canadian Broadst Standards Council, the Dire Stras song "Money for Nothg" is effectively banned om Canadian rad airplay after a gay rint of St. March 19: Craig Stt ws the feral by-electn Toronto—Danforth, beg the sixth openly gay MP the 41st Canadian Parliament.
April 2: The gay owners of a rtrant Morris, Manoba announce that they are closg the tablishment, jt three months after openg , due to homophobic persecutn by some rints of the town.
Everett Gee Klippert is clared a dangero sexual offenr and sentenced to what amounted to life prison, for no other reason than he was homosexual. Outrage over that sentence, upheld by the Supreme Court 1967, led to the crimalizatn of homosexual acts two years later.