February 12 Ottawa Peter Maloney […]
When
1972-02-12
Description
February 12 Ottawa Peter Maloney, who ran as the Liberal party candidate opposite Ontario Attorney-General Allan Lawrence in the October 1971 Ontario provincial election, announced that he was gay during a policy seminar at the annual Liberal Party convention. Maloney made the announcement during a confrontation with Otto Lang, Canada's new Attorney-General and formerly Minister of Manpower and Immigration. Maloney protested the discrimination against gays posed by the Canadian Immigration Act.
All Places
OttawaAll People
Otto LangAllan LawrenceP.M. (Peter Maloney)All Organizations
Department of Manpower and ImmigrationLiberal Party of CanadaAll Monograph
Canadian Immigration ActAll Citations
Helen Worthington, "Discrimination Is Very Subtle, Homosexual Says," Toronto Star, four star ed., 26 November 1975, p. F3.J.G. Shepherd, "A New Kind of Politician: Gay, Proud: Toronto's Peter Maloney," Advocate (Los Angeles), no. 96 (1972), p. 6;Alexander Ross, "Peter Maloney Publicly Defies Homosexual Myth," Toronto Star, four star ed., 25 February 1972, p. 25;Peter Maloney, "Maloney: Coming Out in Politics," Body Politic, no. 3 (1972), pp. 7-8;Anthony L. Côté, "Liberals Hear Gay Maloney," Ryersonian (Ryerson Polytechnical Institute, Toronto), 15 February 1972, p. 1;N. John Adams, "Maloney Tells Liberals of His Homosexuality," Globe and Mail, metro ed., 14 February 1972, p. 10;
