So in honour of the country the founder of this project hails from, we are going to go over some queer Canadian history, though I would love to do next weeks article on an amazing queer Canadian I promised my amazing business partner Grace that I would do Oscar Wilde, so my Canadian post will just be some bonus content.
This timeline is from when Canada began as a nation, and because of that it does not include the history of Native American’s attitudes towards queer people. But keep following us and we will cover that as it deserves its own article.
Another thing you may notice is that this timeline is mainly same sex related, and that is purely fo lack of strides made by our country in transgender rights up until more recent years. And I keep we can keep moving forward with that, but it is an unfortunate fact that there was not much progress for transgender people until quite recently.
But here we go, our Timeline of Queer History in Canada, it does not have everything but it had some of the things we thought we could share.
Les Mouches Fantastiques begins, the first Queer themed magazine known to be published in North America. It was an underground magazine that caused great controversy even though only five issues of it were ever published.
Homosexual acts are decriminalized Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau saying “The state has no place in the bedrooms of the nation.“
Quebec makes discrimination based on sexual orientation illegal, and is the first major jurisdiction in the world to do so, in the same year Canada ends its immigration ban on homosexual men.
3,000 people march in the streets in Toronto to protest the arrest of 300 men from a series of bath house raids.
Svend Robinson becomes Canada’s first openly gay Member of Parliament, in the same year The United Church of Canada becomes the first church in Canada to permit the ordination of gay and lesbian ministers
Canada lifts the ban on people who are attracted to the same gender they are legally known as being allowed into the Canadian Forces.
Toronto Board of Directors was the first CAS in the province to pass a policy that permitted same sex couples the opportunity to become foster parents. In the same year, the Board adopted the position that same sex couples should be allowed to adopt.
Parliament changes the Canadian Human Rights Act to explicitly prohibit discrimination based on sexual orientation.
Libby Davies becomes Canada’s first openly lesbian Member of Parliament.
Canada becomes the fourth nation to officially allow same sex marriage nation wide
Ontario Human Rights Tribunal finds that trans folks must be allowed to change the sex designation on government documents, whether they have had transsexual surgery or not, leading to this quote from Barbara Hall: "Transgender people’s rights are human rights.”
Vancouver School Board introduces a official transgender policy that includes training for teachers in gender neutral pronouns, other pronoun changes and many other things.
Over 110 queer couples are married in a mass wedding ceremony in Toronto, the largest queer wedding in history, the officiants included people from a wide spectrum of beliefs including- Christian, Catholic, Pagan, Judaism, Buddhism, Muslim, Sikh, and New Thought.
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