February 3 Ottawa A Green Paper on […]
When
1975-02-03
Description
February 3 Ottawa A Green Paper on Immigration and Population was tabled in the House of Commons by Manpower and Immigration Minister Robert Andras. It was ambiguous with respect to gay people and did not eliminate homosexuals from a list of prohibited classes of persons (including also alcoholics, drug addicts, and pimps) automatically denied entry to Canada. (see also February 15 and March 1975.)
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March Ottawa The Special Joint […]February 15 Toronto About fifty […]All Places
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"What Green Paper Says (or Doesn't Say) about Gays," Body Politic, no, 17 (1975), p, 5,"Immigration: Report Avoids Gay Issue," Gay Times 1 (May 1975): 8;"Immigration: Green Paper," Gay Tide 2 (March 1975): 5;Philip Girard, "From Subversion to Liberation: Homosexuals and the Immigration Act 1952-1977," Canadian Journal of Law and Society 2 (1987): 1-27;"Gays Say 'End Immigration Bias,' " Gay Rising 1 (March 1975): 3-4;Ron Dayman, "Green Paper Ignores Gays," GO Info 2 (March 1975): 2,4;"Clean Up the Act!" (editorial). Body Politic, no, 17 (1975), p. 2;
