Read CNN’s Fast Facts on lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and queer or qutng ton the Uned Stat, and learn more about their stggle for equal rights.
Contents:
- RIGHTS OF LGBTI PERSONS
- GAY RIGHTS
- GAY RIGHTS TIMELE: KEY DAT THE FIGHT FOR EQUALY
- THE AMERIN GAY RIGHTS MOVEMENT: A TIMELE
- GAY RIGHTS IN CANADA
RIGHTS OF LGBTI PERSONS
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 rights timeline *
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.
GAY RIGHTS
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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.
GAY RIGHTS TIMELE: KEY DAT THE FIGHT FOR EQUALY
The gay rights movement the Uned Stat began the 1920s and saw huge progrs the 2000s, wh laws prohibg homosexual activy stck down and a Supreme Court lg legalizg same-sex marriage. * canada gay rights timeline *
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.
But the act, which would also rtrict the fn of "maral stat" to oppose-sex upl, don't pass first June 3, 1993, the Senate pass Bill S-15, another attempt at addg "sexual orientatn" to the Canadian Human Rights Act, but the bill don't make to the Hoe of Commons bee Parliament is dissolved for the 1993 feral 23, 1993In the Mossop se, the Supreme Court of Canada l that the nial of bereavement leave to a gay partner is not discrimatn based on fay stat fed the Canadian Human Rights Act. The Supreme Court also not that if Sectn 15 of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms had been argued, the lg might have been 1995The Supreme Court l on the se volvg Jim Egan and Jack Nb, two gay men who sued Ottawa for the right to claim a spoal pensn unr the Old Age Secury Act.
THE AMERIN GAY RIGHTS MOVEMENT: A TIMELE
The followg timele lists the signifint events of the gay rights movement om 1924 to the prent. * canada gay rights timeline *
However, all ne judg agree that sexual orientatn is a protected ground and that protectn extends to partnerships of lbians and gay 1995An Ontar Court judge fds that the Child and Fay Servic Act of Ontar g Sectn 15 of the Charter by not allowg same-sex upl to brg a jot applitn for adoptn.
The followg day, Runciman reerat the ernment's posn, sayg the marriag will not be legally 10, 2002Ontar Superr Court Jtice Robert McKnon l that a gay stunt has the right to take his boyiend to the prom.
Nearly two dozen homosexual upl applied for marriage licenc Ontar on June 17, 2003Prime Mister Jean Chrétien announc legislatn to make same-sex marriag legal, while at the same time permtg church and other relig groups to "sanctify marriage as they see . S., vote to ask Ottawa to regnize same-sex marriage the same way as heterosexual 9, 2003A gay and lbian group go to trial agast the feral ernment an attempt to force Ottawa to extend survivor benefs to exclud gays and lbians. Gay and lbian partners — pursug Canadian Pensn Plan benefs om their ceased partners — say the feral ernment is discrimatg agast them and have filed a $400-ln class-actn 27, 2003Alliance Lear Stephen Harper Thursday fir MP Larry Spencer as fay issu cric after Spencer said homosexualy should be 19, 2003An Ontar urt l that Ottawa has discrimated agast same-sex upl by nyg benefs to those whose partners died before 1998.
GAY RIGHTS IN CANADA
This adds to the three origal qutns sent to the top urt 19, 2004The Quebec Court of Appeal l that homosexuals have the right to marry, and that the tradnal fn of marriage is discrimatory and unjtified. "No church, no temple, no synagogue, no mosque, no relig official will be asked or forced to perform a marriage that is ntrary to their beliefs, " says Prime Mister Pl 25, 2005Four gay upl New Bnswick file papers wh the provce's Court of Appeal askg to refe marriage to clu same-sex unns. S., the ary's first gay 20, 2005Jason Perro and Col Snow, a same-sex uple om Yellowknife, sue the ernment of the Northwt Terrori over the right to be 23, 2005New Bnswick's Court of Queen's Bench fds the provce's current fn of civil marriage vlat the rights of gay people.
Crimal Law Amendment ActOn December 21st 1968, Jtice Mister Pierre T troduced the Crimal Law Amendment Act, 1968-69, to reform the Crimal Co, on broad-rangg social issu such as homosexualy, abortn and ntraceptn. Toronto bath hoe raidsOn Febary 5th, 1981, more 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.