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Considered Canada's first prominent LGBTQ rights activist, he challenged the Government of Canada to receive spousal benefits for his partner, ensuring sexual orientation is protected
Who is Jim Egan?
Canada decriminalizes homosexual acts between consenting adults in May of this year
What is 1969?
This organization voted on May 23, 2019 to remove 'transgender' from being designated a mental disorder and will now use the term 'gender incongruence' to describe people whose gender identity is different from the gender they were assigned at birth
Who is the World Health Organization (W.H.O.)?
Individuals who do not experience romantic attraction toward individuals of any gender, not to be confused with Asexual
What is Aromantic?
This event in June 1969 is heralded as the beginning of the gay liberation movement
What are the Stonewall Riots?
Assistant Professor of Gender and Sexuality Studies in Education at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario. In 2012, they founded They Is My Pronoun, a Q+A-based blog about gender-neutral pronoun usage and user support with over 30,000 unique visitors in 2017 alone. They are also the founder of the No Big Deal Campaign, a national social media initiative that helps people show support for transgender peoples’ right to have their pronouns used.
Who is Dr. Lee Airton?
Bill C-38 became federal law in July of this year, giving same-sex couples the legal right to marry, and making Canada the 4th country in the world to allow same-sex marriage
What is 2005?
On May 17, 1990, the World Health Organization (W.H.O.) voted to remove this term from being designated a mental disorder in the 10th revision of the International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems (ICD-10).
What is homosexuality?
The name given to the first cases of AIDS when it was discovered in the early 1980s
What is GRID (Gay Related Immune Deficiency)?
"We Demand", Canada's first gay public protest occurred here on August 28, 1971
What is Parliament Hill, Ottawa?
This student won his case against the Durham Catholic School Board in May of 2002, to bring his boyfriend to the high school prom
Who is Marc Hall?
Ontario becomes the first province to allow same-sex couples to adopt in May of this year
What is 1995?
The year Ontario begins issuing all health cards without a gender marker, a huge step for non-binary, intersex and transgender people
What is 2016?
This oldest surviving theatre company in Canada, dedicated to the promotion of queer theatrical expression, was launched in 1978 with their first production in 1979
What is Buddies in Bad Times Theatre?
The Toronto bathhouses raids on February 5, 1981, also known as this ______, is considered one of the crucial turning points in Canadian LGBTQ history (now regarded as the Canadian equivalent of the 1969 Stonewall riots)
What is Operation Soap?
This Governor General’s Award-winning playwright, novelist and broadcast journalist, known for her literary works, "Fall on Your Knees" and "The Way The Crow Flies" was named as an Officer of the Order of Canada, in recognition of "her multi-faceted contributions to the arts in Canada and for her advocacy of LGBTQ+ and women's rights" in December 2018
Who is Anne Marie MacDonald?
This type of defence has allowed people charged with murdering a gay person to be released, or have a lessor charge
What is Gay/Trans Panic Defence?
Organization formed in 1976, provided lesbians and feminists with a safe space for community, support, culture, and politics.
What is the Lesbian Organization of Toronto (L.O.O.T.)?
"are you family" and "are you a friend of Dorothy" are examples
What are gay codes?
October 12th is the anniversary of this significant event in 1998
What is the murder of Matthew Shepherd?
Inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame in 2010, becoming the first openly gay player, one of the first women, and only the second black athlete to ever be inducted. Also known as "the Wayne Gretzky of women's hockey", she amongst many other achievements led the Canadian women's hockey team to four world championships (1990, 1992, 1994, and 1997).
Who is Angela James?
This Act amended the Canadian Human Rights Act to include sexual orientation among the Act’s prohibited grounds of discrimination and was passed on June 20, 1996.
What is Bill C-33?
Canada's first homophile organization formed in Vancouver in April, 1964, pushed for law reforms, organized lectures, discussion groups, and parties
What is the Association for Social Knowledge (A.S.K.)?
This term was coined on July 27, 1990 at the third annual Native American/First Nations Gay and Lesbian Conference in Winnipeg, allowing Indigenous LGBTQ+ folks to reject other English terms that impose the Western views of gender and sexuality on their people
What is Two Spirit (niizh manidoowag)?
The date a pride flag was raised on Parliament Hill in Ottawa, for the first time in Canadian History
What is June 1, 2016?