Learn about the Davie Street Village and the fight for LGBTQ and gay rights across Canada.
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GAY RIGHTS
The gay rights movement the Uned Stat began the 1920s and saw huge progrs the 2000s, wh laws prohibg homosexual activy stck down and a Supreme Court lg legalizg same-sex marriage. * gay rights 1960s canada *
That year, the Supreme Court of Canada upheld a lg that labelled Everett Klippert a "dangero sexual offenr" and threw him prison for admtg he was gay and that he had sex wh other men.Today, homosexual Canadians enjoy much more eedom and societal acceptance. Here's a look at some of the chang that have occurred sce Klippert was sent behd bars.1965Everett Klippert, a Northwt Terrori mechanic, acknowledg to police that he is gay, has had sex wh men over a 24-year perd and is unlikely to change.
22, 1967Jtice Mister Pierre T propos amendments to the Crimal Co which, among other thgs, would relax the laws agast homosexualy.In 1969, amendments that Prime Mister Pierre T had proposed when he was jtice mister to the Crimal Co to crimalize homosexualy are passed. When be public this is a different matter, or when relat to mors this is a different matter."1969T's amendments pass to the Crimal Co, crimalizg homosexualy Canada.July 20, 1971Everett Klippert is released.Dec.
LGBTQ / GAY HISTORY CANADA
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Unr the act, homosexuals are removed om the list of admissible class.1979The Canadian Human Rights Commissn remends s annual report that "sexual orientatn" be add to the Canadian Human Rights Act.May 2, 1980Bill C-242, an act to prohib discrimatn on grounds of sexual orientatn, gets s first readg the Hoe of Commons by MP Pat Carney.
This is nsired to be Canada's 'Stonewall.'October 1985The Parliamentary Commtee on Equaly Rights releas a report tled "Equaly for All." The mtee wr that is shocked by the high level of discrimatory treatment of homosexuals Canada.
GAY RIGHTS MOVEMENT
The mtee remends that the Canadian Human Rights Act be changed to make illegal to discrimate based on sexual orientatn.In March 1986, the ernment rponds to the report a paper tled "Toward Equaly" which wr "the ernment will take whatever measur are necsary to ensure that sexual orientatn is a prohibed ground of discrimatn relatn to all areas of feral jurisdictn."1988Svend Robson go public about beg gay, beg the first member of Parliament to do so. Ridg of Burnaby-Douglas (though s borrs had changed) elected Robson for the eighth time.1991In 1991, Delv Vriend, a lab stctor at Kg's Universy College Edmonton, Alta., was fired om his job bee he is gay. The ernment ws on appeal 1996 and the cisn is overturned.In November 1997, the se go to the Supreme Court of Canada and on April 2, 1998, the high urt unanimoly l that the excln of homosexuals om Alberta's Individual Rights Protectn Act is a vlatn of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
FIRST GAY RIGHTS GROUP
Feral Jtice Mister Kim Campbell rponds to the cisn by announcg the ernment would take the necsary steps to clu sexual orientatn the Canadian Human Rights Act.November 1992The feral urt lifts the untry's ban on homosexuals the ary, allowg gays and lbians to serve the armed forc.Dec. The Supreme Court also not that if Sectn 15 of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms had been argued, the lg might have been different.May 1995The Supreme Court l on the se volvg Jim Egan and Jack Nb, two gay men who sued Ottawa for the right to claim a spoal pensn unr the Old Age Secury Act.