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
- NFL ACH KEV MAXEN MAK SPORTS HISTORY BY G OUT AS GAY
LGBTQ / GAY HISTORY CANADA
Learn about the Davie Street Village and the fight for LGBTQ and gay rights across Canada. * gay canadian history *
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.
RACG TO PRERVE THE HISTORY OF MAE’S 1ST GAY RIGHTS ANIZATN
While lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr (LGBT) Canadians have always been engaged artistic disurse, was only the 1960s and 1970s that alterna... * gay canadian 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.
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.
RIGHTS OF LGBTI PERSONS
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. * gay canadian history *
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.
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. 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.
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". 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.
NFL ACH KEV MAXEN MAK SPORTS HISTORY BY G OUT AS GAY
History of Pri Toronto and across Canada. Protts, celebratns and paras for lbian, gay, bisexual and trans rights. * gay canadian history *
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.