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    Aiyyana Maracle

    Aiyyana Maracle, multidisciplinary Haudenosaunee artist, performer, storyteller and educator (born 25 November 1950 on Six Nations of the Grand River, ON; died there, 24 April 2016). An Indigenous transgender woman, Maracle created art that focused on the decolonization of gender. Her work received critical acclaim and was widely inspirational. She is believed to have been the first Indigenous woman to have received the John Hirsch Prize. This is a prestigious national award for emerging directors in Canadian theatre.

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    Clémence DesRochers

    Clémence DesRochers, actress, humorist, singer and author (b at Sherbrooke, Qué 24 Nov 1934). Daughter of the poet Alfred DESROCHERS, she is the most famous female monologist of her generation in Québec.

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    Clémence DesRochers

    Clémence DesRochers. Monologuist, comedian, singer-songwriter, actress, broadcaster, artist, b Sherbrooke, Que, 23 Nov 1933; honorary doctorate (Sherbrooke) 1994.

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    Doug Wilson

    Douglas Wilson, poet, teacher, advocate for gay and lesbian rights (born 11 October 1950 in Meadow Lake, SK; died 26 September 1992 in Toronto, ON). Doug Wilson became the first gay public figure in Saskatchewan in 1975, after his attempt to start a gay association at the University of Saskatchewan resulted in Wilson being suspended from his role as a student supervisor. His case was the first concerning gay rights to be heard by the Saskatchewan Human Rights Commission (SHRC). Wilson later became president of the Gay Community Centre of Saskatoon and executive director of the Saskatchewan Association on Human Rights. He also co-founded the Saskatchewan Gay Coalition and founded the publishing company Stubblejumper Press. In 1988, he became one of the first openly gay men in Canada to run for federal office.

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    Edward A. Lacey

    Edward Allan Lacey, academic, poet, teacher, translator (born 7 July 1937 in Linsday, ON; died 1995 in Toronto, ON). Edward A. Lacey was part of a trend in the 1960s towards more openly gay writing in Canada. He studied French and German at the University of Toronto and received his MA in linguistics at the University of Texas at Austin. He is credited with writing the first openly gay book of poetry in Canada: The Forms of Loss (1965), a collection of 26 poems that was financed by Dennis Lee and Margaret Atwood.

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    Elsa Gidlow

    Elsa Alice Gidlow, poet, journalist, philosopher, humanitarian (born 29 December 1898 in Hull, United Kingdom; died 8 June 1986 in Mill Valley, California). Elsa Gidlow was a key LGBTQ2 figure in the first half of the 20th century. She co-published Les Mouches fantastiques (1918–20), the first queer magazine in North America. She also wrote what is believed to be the first collection of openly lesbian love poetry published in North America: On A Grey Thread (1923). Her 1986 autobiography was the first memoir by an openly lesbian writer. She was also a co-founder of Druid Heights, a utopian community outside of San Francisco.

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    Gender Identity

    The term “gender identity” refers to an individual’s sense of their own gender, or the gender they feel is most in keeping with how they see themselves.

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    George Hislop

    George Hislop, entrepreneur, advocate for gay and lesbian rights (born 3 June 1927 in Toronto ON; died 8 October 2005 in Toronto, ON). One of the most visible spokespersons for queer people throughout the 1980s, George Hislop was known as the “unofficial mayor of the Toronto gay community.” In 1971, he helped establish the Community Homophile Association of Toronto (CHAT). It became a major advocate for gays and lesbians as they struggled against police harassment and other forms of homophobia. In 1980, he ran for a seat on Toronto City Council — one of the first openly gay individuals to run for office. In 2001, Hislop became the lead plaintiff in a class action lawsuit against the federal government. It pressed for equal recognition of federal pension benefits for gay couples. The plaintiffs won in 2007, shortly after Hislop’s death.

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    Homosexuality

    Homosexuality can be characterized as sexual attraction or "sexual orientation" towards others of one's own sex. Homosexuals may be male ("gay") or female ("lesbian"). Like heterosexual behaviour, homosexual behaviour ranges from anonymous sex, promiscuity and prostitution to romantic affairs and lifelong faithful relationships.

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  • Macleans

    Impending Same-Sex Marriage Legislation

    IT'S NOT THE kind of crowd given to chants, placards, or burning brands. Greying, neatly pressed, well-mannered, they line up patiently at the open microphone.

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    Jamie Lee Hamilton

    Jamie Lee Hamilton, community activist, politician (born 20 September 1955 in Vancouver, BC; died 23 December 2019 in Vancouver, BC). Hamilton spent much of her career working as an advocate for sex workers, the transgender community, and missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls. She holds the distinction of being the first transgender person in Canada to run for political office. (See also Queer Culture.)

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    Jearld Moldenhauer

    Jearld Moldenhauer, activist, administrator, bookseller, photographer (born 9 August 1946 in Niagara Falls, New York). Jearld Moldenhauer is one of Canada’s most influential gay rights advocates and organizers. After founding one of the first gay rights groups at a US college in 1968, he spearheaded the first post-Stonewall gay organization in Canada and the first at a Canadian university. An architect of the gay liberation movement, Moldenhauer founded and ran Glad Day Bookshop (the oldest queer bookstore in the world) and was a key figure in the creation of the Body Politic, Toronto Gay Action, the Gay Alliance Toward Equality and the Canadian Gay Liberation Movement Archives (now called the ArQuives). In February 1972, Moldenhauer became the first gay rights advocate to formally address a political party conference in Canada. As a photographer, he was also a key documenter of the early gay rights movement in Canada.

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    Jim Egan

    James Leo (Jim) Egan, gay activist, writer, politician, environmental activist (born 14 September 1921 in Toronto, ON; died 9 March 2000 in Courtenay, BC). Egan was the first person to publish long articles written from a gay point of view in Canada. He was also one of the first openly gay politicians to serve in Canada. Egan is best remembered for a court challenge he and his partner, Jack Nesbit, launched against the spousal allowance benefit under the Old Age Security Act in 1988. In the subsequent Egan v. Canada decision (1995), the Supreme Court read in that sexual orientation is a protected ground of discrimination in the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms — a monumental finding in support of LGBTQ2 rights in Canada.

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    Jim Watson

    James Alexander Watson, Ottawa city councillor 1991–97, Member of Provincial Parliament 2003–10, mayor of Ottawa 1997–2000 and 2010–22, journalist, broadcaster (born 30 July 1961 in Montreal, QC). Jim Watson has been in and out of politics since he was first elected as an Ottawa city councillor in 1991. He has also served as a member of the Ontario parliament (MPP) and as a minister in the Liberal Cabinet. He came out as gay in 2019 and served four terms as mayor of Ottawa. He was both the youngest and the longest-serving mayor in the city’s history.

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    Kathleen Wynne

    Kathleen O’Day Wynne, 25th premier of Ontario 2013–18, member of provincial parliament 2003–present, school trustee, community activist, mediator, teacher (born 21 May 1953 in Toronto, ON). The skills of a mediator, coupled with a strong sense of will, propelled Kathleen Wynne’s political career, making her Ontario’s first woman premier and Canada’s first openly gay head of government.

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