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
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.
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. 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.