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August Vancouver The Society for […]

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1978-08

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August Vancouver The Society for Political Action for Gay People (SPAG) (later renamed the Society for Political Action by Gays) was formed to lobby and poll political candidates in the Lower Mainland in an effort to track political attitudes towards gays and lesbians and try to effect political change. SPAG (formerly SEARCH Political Action [SPA]) had originally formed under SEARCH but was reconstituted as a separate entity.

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Vancouver

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Society for Education Action Research and Counselling on Homosexuality (SEARCH)Society for Political Action for Gay People/Society for Political Action by Gays

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Society for Political Action by Gays (SPAG) papers , accession 1983–004, Canadian Lesbian and Gay Archives, Toronto."Gay Political Group Forms in Vancouver," SPAG News (Vancouver), 1, no. 1 (October 1978): (1)Margaret Fulford, ed., The Canadian Women's Movement, 1960–1990: A Guide to Archival Resources/Le mouvement canadien des femmes, 1960–1990: guide de ressources archivistiques (Toronto: Canadian Women's Movement Archives/ECW Press, 1992), entry 149