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April Ottawa Member of Parliament Arnold Peters (NDP -Temiskaming) was preparing to introduce a private Members bill calling for the modification of the Canadian Criminal Code to decriminalize homosexual acts between consenting adults in private. The bill never reached the floor of the House of Commons. Peters may have been influenced by the lobbying efforts of Garrfield D. Nichol (pseud, of Gary Nichols) of the Committee on Social Hygiene, Stittsville, Ontario. The Committee on Social Hygiene, pretty much a one-person operation, had been formed in 1963 to investigate the extent of homosexuality in eastern Canada and to quietly lobby for reforms to the Canadian Criminal Code. (see also May 26,1965.)

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May 26 Ottawa The Canadian Council […]

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Gary Nichols Arnold Peters

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Committee on Social Hygiene New Democratic Party

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G.N. (Gary Nichols), C.N. (Cary Nichols) Letter, Mattachine Review 10 (October 1964): 29.Wayne MacDonald, "New Democrats Push 'Hot' Bills," Vancouver Sun, four star ed., 11 April 1964, p. 8 Gary Kinsman (interviewing Bruce Somers), "Organizing in the Sixties: ASK: Canada's First Gay Rights Organization," Rites 3 (October 1986): 10 Gary Kinsman, The Regulation of Desire: Sexuality in Canada (Montréal: Black Rose Books, 1987), p. 155 Gary Kinsman, "Official Discourse as Sexual Regulation: The Social Organization of the Sexual Policing of Gay Men" (Ph. D. dissertation. University of Toronto, 1989), pp. 390—91 " Committee on Social Hygiene " vertical file , Canadian Lesbian and Gay Archives, Toronto

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