Learn about the Davie Street Village and the fight for LGBTQ and gay rights across Canada.
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
* 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.
RACG TO PRERVE THE HISTORY OF MAE’S 1ST GAY RIGHTS ANIZATN
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. * lgbt canada history *
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).
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 *
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.