Opn: Canada’s new ‘gay ’ is e for celebratn - The Globe and Mail

Contents:

• CANADA'S NEW GAY RIL OPPONENTS — AND SOME SUPPORTERS — OF LGBTQ RIGHTS
• NEW GAY RIGHTS DIVIS LGBT MUNY — AND OUTRAG SOCIAL NSERVATIV
• CANADA RELEAS 'GAY CO' TO CELEBRATE LGBTQ2 ANNIVERSARY, CHRISTIANS CALL IT 'AN AFONT TO OUR GOD'
• FIRST GAY DOLLAR CIRCULATN, OM CANADA MT, THE GAY LOONIE
• NEW GAY RIGHTS DIVIS CANADIANS
• WHY CANADA’S ‘GAY DOLLAR’ IS SO IMPORTANT TO ME
• CANADA’S NEW ‘GAY ’ IS E FOR CELEBRATN
• CANADA'S LGBTQ GLOSS OVER RADIL STGGL: WHEN DID GAY LIBERATN E TO MEAN EQUALY?

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. “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. ”“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.

NEW GAY RIGHTS DIVIS LGBT MUNY — AND OUTRAG SOCIAL NSERVATIV

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. 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.

CANADA RELEAS 'GAY CO' TO CELEBRATE LGBTQ2 ANNIVERSARY, CHRISTIANS CALL IT 'AN AFONT TO OUR GOD'

”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.

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

”“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.

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. (Royal Canadian Mt)The Royal Canadian Mt unveiled a memorative loonie Tuday to mark what lled a key tone for lbian, gay, transgenr, queer and two-spired people, wh the ernment sayg the symbolized progrs while highlightg the work that still needs to be done to advance equaly.

NEW GAY RIGHTS DIVIS CANADIANS

Feral Fance Mister Bill Morne was amongst a number of dignari who gathered Toronto to unveil the new one-dollar that pays tribute to Parliament's passg of legislatn that "iated the crimalizatn of homosexualy Canada" , which is now circulatn, b the words "Equaly-Egale" wh the work of Vanuver-based artist Joe Average. Brent Hawk, a pastor and gay rights activist who spoke at the unveilg, said while the legal chang 1969 were not perfect, they are worthy of celebratn. 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. 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.

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

"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.

CANADA’S NEW ‘GAY ’ IS E FOR CELEBRATN

In 1969, Canada's Parliament passed legislatn to partially stop the crimalizatn of homosexual activy, protectg private activy between two dividuals 21 and olr. New $1 #Equaly markg 50 years sce Canada took the first step towards crimalizg homosexualy is unveiled by @Bill_Morne @MarLemay1 @R_Boissonnlt #RightToLove — Royal Canadian Mt (@CanadianMt) April 23, 2019.

Though the untry has been progrsive LGBTQ rights, some gay activists say the untry hasn't gone far enough.

PolicsNew loonie to memorate end of laws agast homosexualyThe feral bet this month approved a new sign for the loonie to memorate the elimatn of laws agast homosexualy 1969. In 2017, his son Jt T issued an official apology for the jtic done to LGBT people Canada, and promised Canadian Mt ref to provi background or image of new , to 'maximize impact' of 2019 lnchA new $1 will memorate the removal of crimal sanctns agast homosexualy 1969.

CANADA'S LGBTQ GLOSS OVER RADIL STGGL: WHEN DID GAY LIBERATN E TO MEAN EQUALY?

(Mark Blch/Canadian Prs)The Royal Canadian Mt is releasg a new $1 sign next year, memoratg the 50th anniversary of the crimalizatn of homosexualy sexual activy between nsentg adults was crimalized 1969, two years after then-jtice mister Pierre T troduced amendments to the Crimal Co, famoly clarg "there's no place for the state the bedrooms of the natn. - Cameron Aken, Canadian Centre for Genr and Sexual Diversy, says the so-lled crimalizatn of homosexualy 1969 was only 's approval follows new legislatn that me to force last June, as part of Jt T's 2017 apology to LGBT Canadians for past acts of discrimatn by the Expungement of Historilly Unjt Convictns Act allows people who were nvicted of same-sex activy between nsentg adults to apply for the stctn or permanent removal of those crimal rerds, affectg an timated 9, 000 official apology also me wh a budget of $145 ln, which clus $110 ln for pensatn for LGBT former civil servants whose reers were siled or termated bee of their sexualy, and $15 ln for historil renciliatn, tn and memorializatn spokman Alex Reev said two LGBT groups were nsulted durg the planng for the : the Toronto-based advocy group Egale Canada and the Canadian Centre for Genr and Sexual Diversy (CCGSD), based image of Vla Dmond on the new $10 banknote.

(Shaa Luck/CBC)A spokman for the latter group, which has been volved tn mpaigns about historic discrimatn, took issue wh Ottawa's claim that homosexualy was crimalized 1969, sayg was only partial. The Royal Canadian Mt partnered wh Vanuver-based artist Joe Average to sign the new gay loonie… On April 23, the Royal Canadian Mt marked 50 years of progrs the journey to equal rights for LGBTQ2 Canadians wh the release of the $1 “Equaly” circulatn . ” The Royal Canadian Mt partnered wh renowned Canadian artist Joe Average to sign the new gay loonie.

The reverse clus the words “EQUALITY” and “ÉGALITÉ” on two curved bands, as well as the double dat “1969” and “2019” to mark 50 years sce the procs of crimalizg homosexual acts was iated Canada. The sign has e unr cricism by LGBTQ advot who say that impli that equaly has been achieved Canada, cg HIV disclosure laws, the gay blood ban, and policg of queer people of lor and transgenr people.