January 22 Montréal Stuart Russell […]
When
1977-01-22
Description
January 22 Montréal Stuart Russell resigned from the LSA, Canada's largest Trotskyist organization, due to its "inadequate and un-Marxist" position on homosexuality. Russell claimed that the organization had been procrastinating for more than five years on taking a definitive position on homosexual oppression and liberation. At the time of his resignation, Russell was the treasurer of the ADGQ.
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October 21 Ottawa Andrew MacKey, who […]All Places
MontrealAll People
Stuart RussellAll Organizations
The Comité homosexuel anti-repression/Gay Coalition against Repression CHAR GCAR, Association pour les droits des gai(e)s du Québec ADGQ, L’association pour les droits de la communauté gaie du Québec ADGQLeague for Socialist ActionAll Citations
Merv Walker, "LSA Line 'Inadequate', Gay Activist Resigns," Body Politic, no. 31 (1977), pp. 6–7.Stuart Russell, "Gay Liberation in Canada: A Socialist Perspective" (review), Body Politic, no. 37 (1977), pp. 17, 19Duncan McLean, "Inside the LSA" (letter), Body Politic, no. 32 (1977), p. 3
