LGBTQ / Gay History Canada - Davie Village

Contents:

• LGBTQ / GAY HISTORY CANADA
• RIGHTS OF LGBTI PERSONS
• A BRIEF HISTORY OF LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENR SOCIAL MOVEMENTS

LGBTQ / GAY HISTORY CANADA

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. 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".

RIGHTS OF LGBTI PERSONS

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. 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.

As Miriam Cathere Smh argu Lbian and Gay Rights Canada, an important part of the story of the gradual improvement of LGBTQ* rights Canada is “the nstutnal entrenchment of the bill of rights and the attendant crease the judiciary’s pacy to police equaly issu” (4).

Sylva Larocque, his study of marriage equaly Canada, not that while homophobia is still wispread Canada, “dramatic progrs has been ma regnizg their rights over the last 30 years, and pecially the last ” (12). It requir a personal transformatn based on an unrstandg that gays and lbians are tght by our society var ways, both subtle and blatant, to hate and thereby opprs themselv. Along wh growg numbers of sexual mori around the world, lbian, bisexual, gay, transgenred, transvte, and transsexual people Canada have nclud that they have need to seek the assistance of the legal system orr to dispt the vast systems of official homophobia and heterosexual privilege built to the foundatns of Canadian culture.

A BRIEF HISTORY OF LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENR SOCIAL MOVEMENTS

Askg someone if they will grow out of beg a homosexual impli that fully functng adults are, by flt, heterosexual, and that homosexualy is a flaw or retardatn social and sexual velopment. While many of thk nothg of askg a gay person or thor qutns about the e, orig, and permanence of their homosexualy, flippg the qutns allows to see jt how absurd qutng heterosexualy seems.

Consir how mon is to look for the e of a character’s homosexualy while we, at the same time, never ask if the heterosexualy of a character is ed, if has an orig story, and if is possible that the character will jt grow out of beg a heterosexual. There are, however, still cultural and relig groups who strongly oppose marriage equaly Canada and there is a long way to go before the LGBTQ* muny obtas full equaly wh Canada and there is an end to homophobia.

Stephen Guy-Bray, his discsn Canadian Lerature of Canadian poet and translator Daryl He, not that a “latent homophobia” the Canadian lerary tablishment impacted He’s receptn (75). The tablishment found the referenc to homosexualy He’s works accsible and, as such, argued that a properly Canadian work of poetry would avoid accsible homosexual them.