October 23 Vancouver Maurice Flood […]
When
1974-10-23
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October 23 Vancouver Maurice Flood, chairperson of GATE (Vancouver), attempted to advertise the group's publication Gay Tide in the classified advertising section of the Vancouver Sun. The ad read: "Subs, to GAY TIDE, gay lib paper. $1.00 for 6 issues. 2146 Yew St., Vancouver." The Sun refused to publish the ad. When it failed to reconsider. Flood filed a complaint against the Sun with the B.C. Human Rights Commission on November 15. On November 16, twenty gays picketed the Sun's Pacific Press Building, 2250 Granville Street, in protest. This was the beginning of one of the most famous Canadian legal cases involving gay rights: Gay Alliance toward Equality vs. The Vancouver Sun. (see also November 20,1974, and February 28,1975.)
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February 28 Vancouver The first […]November 20 Vancouver Maurice Flood, […]All Places
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" Vancouver Sun " vertical file , Canadian Lesbian and Gay Archives, Toronto."Sun Picket," Gay Tide 2 (March 1975): 11;Jeff Richstone and J. Stuart Russell, "Comment: Shutting the Gate: Gay Civil Rights in the Supreme Court of Canada," McGill Law Journal 27 (1981): 92-117;"Paper Refuses Ad, Rights Code Invoked," Body Politic, no. 16 (1974), p. 7;"Newspaper Rejects Gay Ad, Human Rights Notified," Vancouver Province, four star final ed., 18 November 1974, p. 10;" 'Gay' Protest Cites Sun," Vancouver Sun, four star ed., 18 November 1974, p. 10;Gay Alliance toward Equality (GATE) (Vancouver) papers, 82-005 and 88-040, Canadian Lesbian and Gay Archives, Toronto;
