Canada's new gay ril opponents — and some supporters — of LGBTQ rights

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

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. "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.

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

“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. Ksman poted to Canada’s first lbian and gay rights monstratn 1971, which protted the limed spe of the 1969 reform.

CANADA HAS THE WORLD'S FIRST OPENLY GAY CURRENCY

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.

WHY CANADA’S ‘GAY DOLLAR’ IS SO IMPORTANT TO ME

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.

WHY STT THOMPSON IS CANADA'S TE GAY NATNAL TREASURE

"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. "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. TorontoThe 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. Historians and advot say new gay rights memorat a mythThe Royal Canadian Mt unveiled a new memorative loonie on Tuday meant to mark what lls a key tone for lbian, gay, transgenr, queer and two-spired people the untry.