Learn about the Davie Street Village and the fight for LGBTQ and gay rights across Canada.
Contents:
- LGBTQ / GAY HISTORY CANADA
- ONE OF N.L.'S FIRST MARRIED GAY UPL LOOK BACK WH PRI
- GAY RIGHTS
- RIGHTS OF LGBTI PERSONS
LGBTQ / GAY HISTORY CANADA
* canada gay history *
Police crackdowns agast gay bars Montreal's Stanley Street gay village, wily perceived as mayor Jean Drape's attempts to "clean up" the cy advance of the 1976 Summer Olympics, lead to rts.
ONE OF N.L.'S FIRST MARRIED GAY UPL LOOK BACK WH PRI
Homosexual Canadians enjoy much more eedom and societal acceptance than they did 1965, when a Northwt Terrori man was thrown prison after admtg he was gay. tak a look at some of the chang that have occurred sce then. * canada gay history *
June: Kenh Zeller is murred Toronto's High Park, a hate crime which spurs the Toronto District School Board, Zeller's employer, to implement one of Canada's first programs to bat anti-gay discrimatn and vlence.
May 17: Gay MLA Lorne Mayenurt is reelected Vanuver-Burrard the Brish Columbia provcial electn, and gay ndidate Nicholas Simons is elected to his first term Powell River-Sunshe Coast.
September 29: At an all-ndidat bate staged for a high school stunt dience Sudbury durg the 2008 feral electn, pennt ndidate David Popcu rponds to a qutn about same-sex marriage by statg that "homosexuals should be executed". January 10: In a lg by the Canadian Broadst Standards Council, the Dire Stras song "Money for Nothg" is effectively banned om Canadian rad airplay after a gay rint of St.
GAY RIGHTS
April 2: The gay owners of a rtrant Morris, Manoba announce that they are closg the tablishment, jt three months after openg , due to homophobic persecutn by some rints of the town. Canada passed a bill that crimalized homosexualy May of 1969 before the Stonewall Rts took place the USA, yet the nversatn about the begngs of Pri often rema US-centric.
RIGHTS OF LGBTI PERSONS
That year, the Supreme Court of Canada upheld a lg that labelled Everett Klippert a "dangero sexual offenr" and threw him prison for admtg he was gay and that he had sex wh other, homosexual Canadians enjoy much more eedom and societal acceptance. In 1967, Klippert is sent to prison fely as a "dangero sex offenr, " a sentence that was backed up by the Supreme Court of Canada that same 22, 1967Jtice Mister Pierre T propos amendments to the Crimal Co which, among other thgs, would relax the laws agast 1969, amendments that Prime Mister Pierre T had proposed when he was jtice mister to the Crimal Co to crimalize homosexualy are passed. "1969T's amendments pass to the Crimal Co, crimalizg homosexualy 20, 1971Everett Klippert is 16, 1977Quebec clus sexual orientatn s Human Rights Co, makg the first provce Canada to pass a gay civil rights law.
All the proposed bills are 5, 1981More than 300 men are arrted followg police raids at four gay bath ho Toronto, the largt mass arrt sce the War Measur Act was voked durg the October Crisis. The ernment ws on appeal 1996 and the cisn is November 1997, the se go to the Supreme Court of Canada and on April 2, 1998, the high urt unanimoly l that the excln of homosexuals om Alberta's Individual Rights Protectn Act is a vlatn of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
November 1992The feral urt lifts the untry's ban on homosexuals the ary, allowg gays and lbians to serve the armed 9, 1992As promised, Jtice Mister Kim Campbell troduc Bill C-108, which would add "sexual orientatn" to the Canadian Human Rights Act.