May 26 Ottawa The Canadian Council […]
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1965-05-26
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May 26 Ottawa The Canadian Council on Religion and the Homosexual, a group of clergy and laypeople, was established to "aid in public education about homosexuality and the plight of the homosexual in society." The group's first executive included Rev. Philip Rowswell (Chairman), Garrfield D. Nichol (pseud., of Gary Nichols; Secretary), and Aurele J. Lebeau (Treasurer). Bruce Somers, first president of ASK, also helped to found the group, which sponsored discussion groups and was active until the autumn of 1966.
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February 8 Ottawa Five gay men and […]April Ottawa Member of Parliament […]All Places
OttawaAll People
Bruce SomersAurele J. LebeauGary NicholsPhilip RowswellAll Organizations
Association for Social Knowledge ASKCanadian Council on Religion and the HomosexualAll Citations
"Tangents: Ottawa, Canada," Tangents 1 (October 1965): 16.]Gary Kinsman, The Regulation of Desire: Sexuality in Canada (Montreal: Black Rose Books, 1987), p. 153;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. 386—87;"Church Council Aims to Aid Homosexuals," Globe and Mail, metro ed., 2 June 1965, p. 9;" Canadian Council on Religion and the Homosexual " vertical file, Canadian Lesbian and Gay Archives, Toronto;Untitled article, ASK Newsletter, May 1967,
