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TORONTO PRI: CELEBRATE LGBTQ RIGHTS WH THE GAY CANADIAN INS
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And wh all due rpect to the nobily of that Aaron Ashmore-starrg take on the Oshawa teenager who fought the school board to take his same-sex date to prom, 's rather prsg that stands so alone as a out more CBC Arts stori on LGBTQ+ ins and activistsQueeriProudly prep some tissu: The first LGBTQ Herage Mute, celebratg activist Jim Egan, is hereSo wh the 50th anniversary of the crimalizatn of homosexualy this untry g next year, I feel like 's a very appropriate time for the media-makers and funrs Canada to get some balls rollg on addg a few exampl to the CanCon non of historil queer narrative storytellg. (Lda Dawn Hammond/)The clost equivalent of a "Stonewall" (the 1969 New York Cy rts wily adopted as a startg pots for what was then termed the "gay liberatn movement") Canada is very arguably the 1981 Toronto bathhoe raids, which police vlently scend on four of the cy's bathho and arrted 304 men. Gay activist and polician Gee Hislop (more on him later) was quoted the The Body Polic (more on that later too) as llg the night "the gay equivalent of Crystal Night Nazi Germany — when the Jews found out where they were really at.
CANADA 150: GAY CANADIAN INS
(Canadian Gay and Lbian Archiv)Two years ago, I wrote this piece here at CBC Arts on why every Canadian should know about The Body Polic honour of Nick Green's Dora Award-wng play explorg s history. (Canadian Lbian and Gay Archiv)The story of the Bnswick Four would make for que the movie (perhaps starrg say, Alison Pill, Tatiana Maslany and Ey Hampshire?
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