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May 6 Ontario The Ontario […]
When
1975-05-06
Description
May 6 Ontario The Ontario Educational Communications Authority (OECA) (Channel 19) broadcast the documentary To Be or Not to Be in its series "The Quiet Furies." Filmed several years earlier in the United States, To Be or Not to Be was seen by some to be homophobic in its depiction of gays as superficial, immature, and living hopeless lives, GATE (Toronto) protested to OECA chairperson Ronald Ide, and demanded that the program be withdrawn and never shown again. Later, members of The Body Politic, GATE (Toronto), and GAY met with the head of adult programming for OECA in an attempt to influence programming on gay subjects.