Learn about the Davie Street Village and the fight for LGBTQ and gay rights across Canada.
Contents:
- IN POWERFUL REBE OF HATE, JAGUARS' KEV MAXEN MAK HISTORY G OUT AS GAY
- ONE OF N.L.'S FIRST MARRIED GAY UPL LOOK BACK WH PRI
- LGBTQ / GAY HISTORY CANADA
- MALAYSIA CUTS SHORT MIC FT AFTER BRISH BAND SLAMS ANTI-GAY LAWS, SGER KISS MALE BANDMATE
- GAY CANADA
IN POWERFUL REBE OF HATE, JAGUARS' KEV MAXEN MAK HISTORY G OUT AS GAY
* gay in canada history *
What Kev Maxen has done, g out as gay, makg him what's believed to be the first publicly out male ach major Amerin men’s profsnal sports, is brave enough.
ONE OF N.L.'S FIRST MARRIED GAY UPL LOOK BACK WH PRI
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LGBTQ / GAY HISTORY 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.
MALAYSIA CUTS SHORT MIC FT AFTER BRISH BAND SLAMS ANTI-GAY LAWS, SGER KISS MALE BANDMATE
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. 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.
GAY CANADA
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.