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Contents:
- CANADIAN LBIAN AND GAY ARCHIV (CLGA)
- THE TE NORTH LGBT: NEW POLL REVEALS LANDSPE OF GAY CANADA
- THE 10 BEST CANADA GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS CANADA
- CANADA 'POURED THOANDS AND THOANDS' TO 'U MACHE' — A WILDLY UNSUCCSFUL ATTEMPT AT GAYDAR
CANADIAN LBIAN AND GAY ARCHIV (CLGA)
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Evangelil Prottants, most often the vanguard of antigay protts, have been a visible prence Canadian polil life, but they are much ls fluential than their Amerin s, nstutg ls than 10% of the overall populatn (Malloy, 2011).
Individual unns, mostly the public sector, began supportg lbian and gay claims the 1980s, and the next a good part of the overall labor movement was assertively backg the LGBT e and soon takg on issu of genr inty as well as sexual orientatn. This effectively postponed engagement wh the polilly and religly load qutn of marriage—an issue that also had much potential for broang anti-gay mobilizatn and dividg the LGBT movement. The were equently subject to police harassment, and Canada experienced a versn of the McCarthye attack on homosexualy as damagg to societal morals and a threat to natnal secury (Ksman & Gentile, 2011).
Relig reformism llg for change theologil rponse to sexual diversy was spreadg durg this time, exemplified the 1965 formatn of the Canadian Council on Relign and the Homosexual. The character of gay liberatn was not much different om that of the Uned Stat and those parts of Europe where had emerged, though wh a smaller-sle surge of activist energy than major ci elsewhere. But as Tim McCaskell puts , there were, om the outset, “down-to-earth” activists who foced on buildg the polil strength and cultural valy of distguishable gay and lbian nstuenci (McCaskell, 2016, p.
THE TE NORTH LGBT: NEW POLL REVEALS LANDSPE OF GAY CANADA
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Femism was an important analytil amework for most lbians the movement, but also for many men, while others argued that femist advocy was entirely distct om and at tim anthetil to gay liberatn.
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One illtratn of heterogeney, even among those fully rmed by radil approach, was the first prott march on Parliament Hill Ottawa 1971, an early tone of the newly energized movement, anized largely by self-intified adherents to gay liberatn.
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In 1975, the Coaln for Gay Rights Ontar was tablished by activists proudly wearg the liberatnist label, but foced, through much of the group’s mandate, on securg formal rights protectns provcial human rights law (Warner, 2002). Among the groups that bed radil ias and a foc on the rights of a fable gay and lbian mory was Vanuver’s Gay Alliance Toward Equaly, which lnched a formal challenge to the Vanuver Sun’s refal to prt one of s ads soon after s formatn 1971, eventually securg a victory the Supreme Court of Canada (Gay Alliance Toward Equaly v.
The Natnal Gay Rights Coaln (later the Canadian Lbian and Gay Rights Coaln) was tablished 1975, though s half of existence was marked by the srcy of rourc and the recurrence of nflict across genr l, strategy, and polil iology. In addn, Canadian branch of the Amerin-born Metropolan Communy Church, based largely on lbian and gay ngregatns, were tablished Toronto and Montreal 1973, and soon after Vanuver, Edmonton, Calgary, Wnipeg, and Ottawa.
Most of the groups formed the first wave of liberatnist activism had only a short life, and those that endured, like Gays of Ottawa, Gays for Equaly Wnipeg, and Gay Alliance for Equaly Halifax, me to rely on only small handfuls of volunteers (Warner, 2002, pp. In Montreal, lol thori’ termatn to “clean up” the cy produced major police attacks on gay stutns, startg 1975 and culmatg a massive 1977 arrt of almost 150 men at the Txx bar (Tremblay, 2015a). In Toronto, police raid bathho 1978 and 1979, and was at this time that lol evangelil Christians began mobilizg anti-gay sentiment, vg Ana Bryant to speak the cy soon after her succsful mpaign to reverse civil rights protectns Miami.