The Amerin Gay Rights Movement: A Timele

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

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. 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.

GAY RIGHTS

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.

GAY RIGHTS TIMELE: KEY DAT THE FIGHT FOR EQUALY

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.

THE AMERIN GAY RIGHTS MOVEMENT: A TIMELE

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. Canada, feral Jtice Mister and Attorney General of Canada, Kim Campbell announced that Canada was liftg s ban on homosexuals the Canadian Forc, allowg them to serve openly and live on-base wh their partners. Polil ndidate lls for executn of all homosexualsDurg an all-ndidat bate held before stunts at Sudbury Sendary School September 2008, pennt ndidate David Popcu was asked for his views on same-sex marriage.

GAY RIGHTS IN CANADA

Pardon for Gee KlippertOn Febary 28, 2016, CBC News reported that Prime Mister Jt T tend to remend that a pardon unr the thory of the Royal Prerogative of Mercy be granted posthumoly to Gee Klippert, the last person Canada to be imprisoned for homosexualy.

A lbian, gay, or bisexual person born 1950 (age 72 2022) survived laws that crimalized their sexualy until the were 19, had their sexualy seen as a mental disorr until they were 29, survived the “u mache” era, which saw public service, RCMP, and ary LGBTQ employe targeted, vtigated, and purged om their jobs until they were 40 (Foy, 2018), would not have their human rights protected unr the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms until they were 45, and would not have legal rights to marry until they were aged 55 (Canadian Broadst Corporatn, 2012). December 3, 1996 - Hawaii’s Judge Chang l that the state do not have a legal right to prive same-sex upl of the right to marry, makg Hawaii the first state to regnize that gay and lbian upl are entled to the same privileg as heterosexual married upl.

Army service World War I, Gerber was spired to create his anizatn by the Scientific-Humanarian Commtee, a “homosexual emancipatn” group ’s small group published a few issu of s newsletter “Friendship and Freedom, ” the untry’s first gay-tert newsletter. Ernment signated Gerber’s Chigo hoe a Natnal Historic Pk TriangleCorbis/Getty ImagHomosexual prisoners at the ncentratn mp at Sachsenhsen, Germany, wearg pk triangl on their uniforms on December 19, gay rights movement stagnated for the next few s, though LGBT dividuals around the world did e to the spotlight a few example, English poet and thor Radclyffe Hall stirred up ntroversy 1928 when she published her lbian-themed novel, The Well of Lonels. Addnally, 1948, his book Sexual Behavr the Human Male, Aled Ksey proposed that male sexual orientatn li on a ntuum between exclively homosexual to exclively Homophile Years In 1950, Harry Hay found the Mattache Foundatn, one of the natn’s first gay rights group.