September 13 Canada A four-page […]
When
1969-09-13
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September 13 Canada A four-page article by William Spencer entitled "Canada's Leading Homosexual Speaks Out" was to appear in the Weekend magazine supplement of thirty-nine Canadian newspapers. The article, a profile of Paul Bédard of Montreal, founder of the Gemini I club and president of International Sex Equality Anonymous (ISEA), was censored by some of the newspapers; fourteen of the newspapers either tore out the article or refused to include the supplement. In the article, Bédard claimed that ISEA had 4,000 members and that it was affiliated with NACHO; both claims were unlikely. The censorship of the article was raised on March 3, 1970, before the Senate committee on mass media.
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April 19 Montréal Gemini I, a social […]August Montréal International Sex […]All Places
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Paul BédardWilliam SpencerAll Organizations
North American Conference of Homophile OrganizationsInternational Sex Equality Anonymous ISEAAll Periodicals
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Canada's Leading Homosexual Speaks OutAll Citations
William Spencer, "Canada's Leading Homosexual Speaks Out," Weekend Magazine, 13 September 1969, pp. 6-8."Papers Object to Story About Homosexuality," Montreal Star, final ed., 13 September 1969, pp. 1-2;"Journalism: Censoring Weekend," Time (Canadian ed.), 19 September 1969, p. 18;Ross Higgins, "Lives, Oral Narratives, Writing the Past," revised version of a paper delivered at the Out of the Archives Conference, Department of History, York University, North York, Ont., 13-15 January 1994, p. 16;"14 Publishers Tore Out Article: Homosexuality," Toronto Telegram, final ed., 4 March 1970, p. 64;Farrell Crook, "Senators Describe Deletion of Weekend Story on Homosexuals as Censorship: 14 Publishers Refused to Distribute Article," Globe and Mail, metro ed., 4 March 1970, p. 4;
