August Québec, Qué. The Québec […]
When
1978-08
Description
August Québec, Qué. The Québec provincial government agreed to co-sponsor a trip to France, through the Office franco-québécois pour la jeunesse (OFQJ)/Franco-Quebec Office for Youth, for twenty lesbians and gays to study France's gay rights movement. This decision received bad press in Québec, questioning the government's budgetary priorities. The trip, which had been planned for November 13 to December 5, 1978, was cancelled. A similar venture, planned for March 1980, was also unsuccessful.
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Office franco-québécois pour la jeunesse (OFQJ)/Franco-Quebec Office for YouthGouvernement du Québec Québec governmentAll Citations
An excellent compilation of clippings and correspondence relating to the affair was published in Le Stagiaire: Office Franco-Québécois Pour la Jeunesse, 8, no. 2 (April 1978): 1–16."Second refus de l'OFQJ," Le Berdache, no. 8 (March 1980), p. 8.Stuart Russell, "Quebec Government to Finance Gay Youth Study Trip," Body Politic, no. 43 (1978), p. 6"Quebecers to Study French Gay Rights," Montreal Star, 12 April 1978, p. A18"French Reject Quebec Bid for Homosexuality Seminar," Montreal Gazette, final ed., 12 February 1980, p. 5Claude Courouve, "The French Correction" (letter), Body Politic, no. 48 (1978), p. 4Pierre Champagne, "Rien pour les fifis," Soleil (Québec, Qué.), 19 September 1978, p. A18Elizabeth Bolton, "PQ Government Blasted for Gay Study Trip," Body Politic, no. 47 (1978), p. 11Elizabeth Bolton, "French Government Vetoes Gay Study Trip, Group Plans to Protest," Body Politic, no. 46 (1978), p. 4
