The Royal Canadian Mt has unveiled a memorative loonie meant to mark what lls a key tone for lbian, gay, transgenr, queer and two-spired people.
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
- WHY CANADA’S ‘GAY DOLLAR’ IS SO IMPORTANT TO ME
- WHY STT THOMPSON IS CANADA'S TE GAY NATNAL TREASURE
CANADA'S NEW GAY RIL OPPONENTS — AND SOME SUPPORTERS — OF LGBTQ RIGHTS
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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.
NEW GAY RIGHTS DIVIS LGBT MUNY — AND OUTRAG SOCIAL NSERVATIV
“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.
FIRST GAY DOLLAR CIRCULATN, OM CANADA MT, THE GAY LOONIE
"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.
CANADA HAS THE WORLD'S FIRST OPENLY GAY CURRENCY
“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.
WHY CANADA’S ‘GAY DOLLAR’ IS SO IMPORTANT TO ME
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. Ksman poted to Canada’s first lbian and gay rights monstratn 1971, which protted the limed spe of the 1969 reform.
WHY STT THOMPSON IS CANADA'S TE GAY NATNAL TREASURE
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.