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June 20 Ottawa Private Barbara […]
When
1977-06-20
Description
June 20 Ottawa Private Barbara Thornborrow was given official notice of her honourable discharge from the Canadian Armed Forces, effective June 24, 1977, for being a "sexual deviate" who was "not advantageously employable." Thornborrow had been confronted about her lesbianism in May 1977, after which she went public in numerous interviews and news stories on radio and television stations and in newspapers across Canada. She appealed her expulsion to the Chief of Defence Staff in Ottawa, but was unsuccessful.
