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LGBTQ / GAY HISTORY CANADA
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. 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).
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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.
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.