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Contents:

• CANADA'S NEW GAY RIL OPPONENTS — AND SOME SUPPORTERS — OF LGBTQ RIGHTS
• NEW GAY RIGHTS DIVIS LGBT MUNY — AND OUTRAG SOCIAL NSERVATIV
• FIRST GAY DOLLAR CIRCULATN, OM CANADA MT, THE GAY LOONIE
• CANADA HAS THE WORLD'S FIRST OPENLY GAY CURRENCY
• CANADA: THE FIRST NATION WITH OPENLY GAY CURRENCY.
• CANADA: THE FIRST NATIGN WITH OPENLY GAY CURRENCY
• CANADA: THE FIRST NATIGN WITH OPENLY GAY CURRENCY
• WHY STT THOMPSON IS CANADA'S TE GAY NATNAL TREASURE
• OPENLY GAY CURRENCY
• MATCHUP OF TWO OPENLY GAY SKIPS AT BRIER A W FOR CLIVY SPORTS
• MORE WOMEN AND OPENLY GAY LEARS CANADIAN POLICS: ARE BARRIERS G DOWN?
• FIRST OPENLY GAY MAN TO LEGALLY ADOPT CANADA HOP NEW MEMOIR WILL BOOST ADOPTNS
• MANOBA'S FIRST OPENLY GAY PC NDIDATE HOP TO SPIRE YOUTH
• BEG FIRST OPENLY GAY PREMIER CANADA 'EXCG,' KATHLEEN WYNNE SAYS

CANADA'S NEW GAY RIL OPPONENTS — AND SOME SUPPORTERS — OF LGBTQ RIGHTS

The Royal Canadian Mt released a memorative one-dollar (monly lled the “loonie”) Tuday to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the partial crimalizatn of homosexualy the untry. “Markg 50 years sce a landmark cisn that began a procs of legal reforms to regnize the rights of LGBTQ2 Canadians is a powerful way to regnize Canada's profound belief equaly and cln, " she ntued, addg "2" to LGBTQ for "two spir, " an digeno ncept that isn’t pletely translatable to the Wtern lexin of genr and sexual 1969, Canada’s Parliament passed legislatn that partially crimalized homosexual activy, specifilly activy nducted private between two dividuals 21 and olr.

"It is an opportuny to reflect on a landmark event our untry's history, and a remr of the progrs still to be ma as we work toward cln and equaly for all LGBTQ2 Canadians, ” he Kennedy, executive director of Egale Canada, a lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, queer and two-spir advocy group, told NBC News that the marks “a particular tone regnn of LGBTQ2 people Canada, ” and lled “hugely signifint and somethg that we should be proud of. “There are 70 untri that crimalize homosexualy, and I’m sure the activists those untri would love to have basic regnn of their existence. “This is a moral issue, this is a s issue terms of homosexual practic.

”“Grown adults have a right to do whatever they like the privacy of their own bedroom, but there is no bs for the ernment puttg this on money, ” he Ksman, a longtime gay activist, is also displeased by the Equaly — but for a very different reason. Ksman is part of the “Anti-69” work, a group of activists and scholars who have e together to unter the ernment’s posn that 1969 marks the crimalizatn of homosexualy Canada. This change, he explaed, “did not affect any of the other offens that uld be ed agast people engagg homosexual sex.

NEW GAY RIGHTS DIVIS LGBT MUNY — AND OUTRAG SOCIAL NSERVATIV

Ksman poted to Canada’s first lbian and gay rights monstratn 1971, which protted the limed spe of the 1969 reform. Ksman also said that large-sle police raids on gay bars and bathho ntued throughout the ‘70s and ‘80s major ci across today, Ksman said, LGBTQ people rema crimalized many ways. ”Bill Morne, Canada’s fance mister and a member of Parliament for the area nsired Toronto’s “gay village, ” acknowledged the fight for LGBTQ equaly is not over.

”“I don’t thk any ernment puts their hand up to take on LGBTI issu, ” Kennedy said, referrg to lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and tersex dividuals. A new dollar signed to memorate 50 years of homosexual rights has sparked a dual backlash — om both members of Canada's LGBT muny and om a social nservative loonie, lnched April 23 at an vatn-only event Toronto, featur a stylized pictn of two overlappg human fac wh a large circle, the dat 1969 and 2019, and the word "equaly" English and French.

"OpnCanada is releasg a memoratg a myth: that homosexualy was crimalized 1969T accepts award for LGBT advocy, says more work to be doneIn 1967, after troducg the package of Crimal Co reforms that would pass a heated Hoe of Commons vote two years later, then jtice mister Pierre T famoly stated that "there's no place for the state the bedrooms of the natn. Crimalizatn ntued post-1969But Hooper sisted that legal persecutn of homosexual acts persisted through certa provisns the Co — such as gross cency — and poted to the urban police raids of gay bath ho that ntued to the 1980s.

FIRST GAY DOLLAR CIRCULATN, OM CANADA MT, THE GAY LOONIE

The event will feature speakers argug that Canada did not crimalize homosexualy 1969 and that LGBT Canadians still faced official persecutn the s that followed: the crimalizatn of non-disclosure of HIV-posive stat, a ban on blood donatns om gay Canadians and opprsive policg loonie to memorate end of laws agast homosexualy'Our llective shame': T livers historic apology to LGBT CanadiansNot every LGBT activist agre.

Liberal MP Rob Oliphant, who intifi as gay, said the 's crics are missg the pot.

"Only someone who has e of age after 1969 uld possibly fail to regnize the huge signifince of the crimalizatn of homosexualy, " he told CBC News. It passed a bill to expunge historil crimal rerds for gross cency, buggery and anal terurse RCMP fd ncept 'disturbg'David Cooke of the social nservative group Cizen Go Canada, meanwhile, acc the Mt of tryg to "policize" Canada's age orr to promote what he lls the prime mister's "gay agenda.

CANADA HAS THE WORLD'S FIRST OPENLY GAY CURRENCY

"He's sayg we as a untry, and we as Canadian cizens, are not only sayg we approve of homosexual behavur and liftyle, but we want to have every cizen have on their age.

"Advancg LGBT, women's equaly key to Canada's enomic growth, Monsef saysSilver Superman s prove to be kryptone to Royal Canadian Mt's bottom leLast week, Cooke and about a dozen others protted outsi the Mt and livered an onle petn opposg the new spokman Alex Reev said the regniz 50 years of progrs for LGBT Canadians sce Parliament iated the crimalizatn of homosexualy, and that the e of the word 'equaly' is meant as "an exprsn of the goal that LGBT Canadians and their alli ntue to pursue.

Canada circulated the first “Gay Dollar”, a new , “memoratg 50 years of progrs regnizg the rights of LGBTQ2 Canadians”. Feral Fance Mister Bill Morne unveiled the new one-dollar that pays tribute to Parliament’s passg of legislatn that “iated the crimalizatn of homosexualy Canada” 1969. In the early days of lonial Canada, homosexly was punishable by ath and this was modified to ten years prison.

CANADA: THE FIRST NATION WITH OPENLY GAY CURRENCY.

In the mid 20th century, Canada further crimalized homosexualy through the vented tegori of “crimal sexual psychopath” and “dangero sexual offenr.

CANADA: THE FIRST NATIGN WITH OPENLY GAY CURRENCY

What is the gay loonie? As an umbrella term may enpass same-sex attractn and a wi variety of genr variance, cludg people who might be scribed Wtern culture as gay, lbian, bisexual, transsexual, transgenr, genr queer, cross-drsers or who have multiple genr inti.

Has gay equaly been achieved Canada?

CANADA: THE FIRST NATIGN WITH OPENLY GAY CURRENCY

Some historians and advot say new gay rights memorat a myth.

WHY STT THOMPSON IS CANADA'S TE GAY NATNAL TREASURE

Meanwhile, the leadg LGBTQ2 rights anizatn Egale Canada prais $1 that marks 1969 ‘turng pot’ for homosexual rights. Canada Has The World's First Openly Gay Currency | - Fom for US and Intl Polics.

Canada Has The World's First Openly Gay Currency (PHOTO). Jt last week, a fourth-grar me up wh a Canadian gay pri that went viral.

OPENLY GAY CURRENCY

When you're the untry that produced Jt Bieber do you really need gay money? Is this gay currency plummetg wh due to oil pric as well?

G-d's Agenda for the Gay Communy?!

… what specifilly would G-d/ HaShem/ YHWH/ The G-d of Abraham be planng to do through the Gay Communy?..... One of the thgs that our Creator wish to do through the Gay Communy..... Queeri is a weekly lumn by CBC Arts producer Peter Knegt that queri LGBTQ art, culture and/or inty through a personal a Canadian gay man, if someone were to ask me to name our untry's tt natnal treasure, I would have to say that — personally — there are three rrect answers to that qutn: Céle Dn, Carly Rae Jepsen and Stt Thompson.

MATCHUP OF TWO OPENLY GAY SKIPS AT BRIER A W FOR CLIVY SPORTS

I highly spect if I took a poll of say, 1000 other gay Canadian men, Ms. Thompson, however, would be very unlikely to do the same — which ankly is a great gaynadian shame, bee he is one of the greatt gay ics of all time, anywhere. — wh Buddy Cole that timate settg would be somethg I uld easily fd a gaggle of fellow gays to e wh me.

MORE WOMEN AND OPENLY GAY LEARS CANADIAN POLICS: ARE BARRIERS G DOWN?

Thompson walked to the bookstore, full Buddy Cole garb, and ma clear we shared a mutual annoyance regardg how gay Torontonians were choosg to spend their eveng. There's no other explanatn for gay men g out to see another gay man! "The gay men who ma that choice were not disappoted.

"I feel sorry for young gay men today, " Cole screamed as he opened his monologue, marti hand. But also, for me, the time that I grew up — the time that I me of age —was a very different time for gay people. You uld not really be an openly gay ic and fely not an openly gay stand-up edian.

Especially for a gay man of my generatn the world today, bee thk of what we suffered through to get here. "As for how the world today treats openly gay ics, though Thompson is sure 's "1000% better, " there's still one major problem: there's still no openly gay male star edy. "There's lot's of famo gay women edy, but not gay men, " he says.

FIRST OPENLY GAY MAN TO LEGALLY ADOPT CANADA HOP NEW MEMOIR WILL BOOST ADOPTNS

I thk the level of self-loathg wh gay men is a lot higher than people thk.

MANOBA'S FIRST OPENLY GAY PC NDIDATE HOP TO SPIRE YOUTH

And as a rult gay men have a very difficult time givg up for other gay men. We're a stage when gay men only seem able to give up for women or drag queens, but not other gay men. Like if a gay man is up there beg funny and he's not drag I thk most gay men feel like, 'Well, I'm as funny as he is.

' Gay men all thk they're hilar and I have to rm you, they're not.

BEG FIRST OPENLY GAY PREMIER CANADA 'EXCG,' KATHLEEN WYNNE SAYS

To me, 's somethg that I found very sad over my reer: how ltle gay men embrace me, and how ltle gay men embrace other gay men edy. We gay men "need to take a hard look at ourselv the mirror.

"Gay men need to look at themselv and go, 'Why n I not let another gay man she? ' You ask any gay male edian and I'm pretty sure 99% of them would agree wh me. Remember, gay men are still let's be hont, the gay media is absolutely guilty too.