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Autumn Ottawa The new federal […]

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1976-09 – 1976-11

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Autumn Ottawa The new federal immigration legislation would not bar homosexuals from entering Canada. In October 1975 the Special Joint Committee of the Senate and the House of Commons on Immigration Policy submitted a final report to Parliament advising the federal government to delete from the Immigration Act the provision that prohibited foreign gays from entering Canada either as visitors or as immigrants. The existing Immigration Act, passed in 1952, contained several references to homosexuals and "homosexualism" that were blatantly discriminatory. Gay activists had been pressing for the removal of all references to homosexuality from the act. (See also November 9, 1976.)

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November 8 Toronto A benefit dance […]

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Ottawa

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Government of Canada

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Paul Trollope, "Gay Exclusion to Be Dropped from New Immigration Act," Body Politic, no. 29 (1976–77), p. 7.Ken Popert, "Parliamentary Committee Recommends End to Gay Exclusion," Body Politic, no. 22 (1976), pp. 3–4"New Immigration Act a Victory for Gays," Body Politic, no. 30 (1977), pp. 4–5"Immigration: Legislation Promised," NGRC Forum, 1, no. 1 (Spring 1976): 1–2R.D. (Ron Dayman), "Immigration Challenge?" NGRC Forum, 1, no. 2 (Summer 1976): (3)Ron Dayman, "Coalition Will Urge MPs to Put Gays in Human Rights Act," Body Politic, no. 23 (1976), pp. 3–4
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