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Contents:
- GLEN MURRAY BE NORTH AMERI’S FIRST OPENLY GAY MAYOR OF A MAJOR CY (OCTOBER 28, 1998)
- LGBTQ / GAY HISTORY CANADA
- PETE BUTTIGIEG: HOW A YOUNG, GAY MAYOR BEME A DEMOCRATIC STAR
- GAY POLICIANS E OUT OF THE CLOSET AND TO THE BET
- FIVE QUTNS WH THE FIRST OPENLY GAY POLICIAN ELECTED ALBERTA, ALMOST 25 YEARS AGO
- OKLAHOMA TOWN'S FIRST OPENLY GAY MAYOR RIGNS, CG HARASSMENT
- CALLG PRI JERSEYS A DISTRACTN IS SENDG THE WRONG MSAGE, SAYS NHL'S FIRST OPENLY-GAY AGENT
- TWO D.C. GAY BAR CTOMERS STABBED ON SIWALK NEAR DUPONT CIRCLE
- RICHARD A. HEYMAN DI AT 59; ONE OF FIRST OPENLY GAY MAYORS
GLEN MURRAY BE NORTH AMERI’S FIRST OPENLY GAY MAYOR OF A MAJOR CY (OCTOBER 28, 1998)
On October 28, 1998, Glen Murray ma history when he was elected Wnipeg’s 41st mayor, beg the first openly gay mayor of any large cy North Ameri. Murray was re-elected 2002. * first openly gay mayor in canada *
On October 28, 1998, Glen Murray ma history when he was elected Wnipeg’s 41st mayor, beg the first openly gay mayor of any large cy North Ameri. Aug 28, 1971 Canada's first gay rights prott (Ottawa, Vanuver. Feb 29, 1988 - First openly gay member of Canadian Parliament, Svend Robson June 27, 2009 - First Trans March held Toronto.
The RCMP, throughout the late 1950s and the entirety of the 1960s, kept tabs on homosexuals and the patrons of gay bars Ottawa and other ci.
LGBTQ / GAY HISTORY CANADA
Learn about the Davie Street Village and the fight for LGBTQ and gay rights across Canada. * first openly gay mayor in canada *
The force also worked wh the FBI's own surveillance of homosexuals and alerted the FBI when a spected homosexual had crossed the borr to the Uned Stat. Canada se s first gay-posive anizatn, ASK, and first gay magaz: ASK Newsletter ( Vanuver), and Gay (by Gay Publishg Company of Toronto). Gay was the first perdil to e the term 'Gay' the tle and expand quickly, cludg outstrippg the distributn of Amerin publitns unr the name Gay Internatnal.
The were quickly followed by Two (by Gayboy (later Kamp) Publishg Company of Toronto). May 14: Canada crimaliz homosexual acts between nsentg adults wh the passage of the Crimal Law Amendment Act, 1968-69. Augt 28: We Demand, Canada's first gay public prott, occurs Ottawa on Parliament Hill.
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. October: Two gay tablishments Montreal, Mystique and Txx, are raid. May 10: In the Brish Columbia provcial electn, Robert Douglas Cook be Canada's first openly gay polil ndidate.
PETE BUTTIGIEG: HOW A YOUNG, GAY MAYOR BEME A DEMOCRATIC STAR
Is beg gay a polil non-issue now? * first openly gay mayor in canada *
He garners 126 vot Wt Vanuver-Howe Sound as a ndidate of the Gay Alliance Toward Equaly.
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. Febary 29: Svend Robson be Canada's first elected Member of Parliament to e out as gay. Augt 21: Ala Brosse, a straight man Ottawa, is attacked by a gang of teenagers who wrongly assumed he was gay, while walkg home om his job at the Châte Lrier.
Augt 4 - Augt 11: Vanuver hosts the 1990 Gay Gam. Chris Lea ws the learship of the Green Party of Canada, beg the first openly gay lear of a polil party Canada.
GAY POLICIANS E OUT OF THE CLOSET AND TO THE BET
Elected as an Edmonton cy uncillor 1992, Michael Phair was a part of an early wave of openly gay ndidat who broke down old barriers Canadian polics by wng electns * first openly gay mayor in canada *
October 28: Glen Murray is elected mayor of Wnipeg, beg Canada's and North Ameri's first openly gay mayor of a major cy. November 17: In one of Canada's most notor anti-gay hate crim, Vanuver rint Aaron Webster is asslted and killed Stanley Park by four young offenrs. A march and vigil memoratg Webster and prottg anti-gay vlence is held the followg day.
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.
FIVE QUTNS WH THE FIRST OPENLY GAY POLICIAN ELECTED ALBERTA, ALMOST 25 YEARS AGO
Bayne Pettger, NHL's first openly gay hockey player agent, says the league's recent cisn to ban teams om donng Pri jerseys uld alienate the queer muny and disurage their participatn and support the game. * first openly gay mayor in canada *
Mayenurt's victory is not falized until early June, however, due to a reunt battle wh gay challenger Tim Stevenson.
OKLAHOMA TOWN'S FIRST OPENLY GAY MAYOR RIGNS, CG HARASSMENT
* first openly gay mayor in canada *
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. March 19: Craig Stt ws the feral by-electn Toronto—Danforth, beg the sixth openly gay MP the 41st Canadian Parliament.
CALLG PRI JERSEYS A DISTRACTN IS SENDG THE WRONG MSAGE, SAYS NHL'S FIRST OPENLY-GAY AGENT
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.
Everett Gee Klippert is clared a dangero sexual offenr and sentenced to what amounted to life prison, for no other reason than he was homosexual.
TWO D.C. GAY BAR CTOMERS STABBED ON SIWALK NEAR DUPONT CIRCLE
Outrage over that sentence, upheld by the Supreme Court 1967, led to the crimalizatn of homosexual acts two years later. In 2016, Prime Mister Jt T dited he would remend a pardon for Klippert and nsir pardong all men who were charged, nvicted and punished simply bee they were gay. Gay Alliance Toward Equaly (GATE) is Found.
Formed by Mrice Flood Vanuver, GATE is one of the first Canadian Gay liberatn groups. The Body Polic, Canada's first gay publitn.
Canadian Lbian and Gay Archiv is Lnched.
RICHARD A. HEYMAN DI AT 59; ONE OF FIRST OPENLY GAY MAYORS
Pk Triangle Prs found the Canadian Lbian and Gay Archiv 1973, which today is a rpected and historilly important llectn of LGBT material. Known as the Bnswick Four, the se raised awarens about homophobia and harassment Canada. Ban prohibg gay men om immigratg is lifted.