October 5 Ottawa The GATE […]
When
1978-10-05
Description
October 5 Ottawa The GATE (Vancouver) versus the Vancouver Sun case reached the Supreme Court of Canada. Nine justices of the court heard the case, which stemmed from the Vancouver Sun's refusal to print a classified ad for GATE (Vancouver)'s newspaper Gay Tide in October 1974. This was the first time that a gay civil rights case had been heard by Canada's highest court. While the case was being heard, gays demonstrated outside of the Supreme Court building, and also in Vancouver in front of the Sun building. The Court's decision was deferred. (See also May 22, 1979.)
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May 22 Ottawa The Supreme Court of […]All Places
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"The Verdict: Heads We Win, Tails They Lose" (editorial), Gay Tide, no. 21 (December 1978), p. 2."Turning Back the Tide: Gays Take the Vancouver Sun to the Supreme Court," Georgia Straight, 3–10 November 1978, pp. 10–11"Top Court Hears Gay Tide, Defers Historic Decision," Body Politic, no. 48 (1978), p. 8"Supreme Court to Hear First Gay Rights Case: Decision Will Affect Gay People in Every Province," Body Politic, no. 43 (1978), p. 7"Supreme Court Hears Gay Case over Ad Refusal: Vancouver Sun," Vancouver Sun, four star ed., 5 October 1978, p. A12"Supreme Court Hearing Delayed," Gay Calgary, 2, no. 3 (September 1978): 3"Supreme Court Delays Tide Case," Body Politic, no. 45 (1978), p. 8"Supreme Court Considers Gay Rights: Laskin Reserves Judgement," Gay Tide, no. 21 (December 1978), p. 3"Supreme Court Case," Gay Tide, no. 19 (April 1978), p. 6Bruce May, "Gay Tide," Gay Calgary, 2, no. 4 (December 1978): 4"Law of the Land," After Stonewall, no. 5 (Spring 1978), p. 8Julianne Labreche, "Gay Power's Day in Court," Maclean's, 16 October 1978, pp. 26–27Mike Johnstone, "Gays Reach Supreme Court," Forum (CLGRC, Montréal), 3, no. 4 (Fall 1978): (3)"Homosexual Appeal on High Court Docket," Globe and Mail, metro ed., 22 September 1978, p. 8"Homosexual Ad Appeal High on Court List," Vancouver Sun, four star ed., 22 September 1978, p. A17"High Tide: The Distance from Vancouver's Gay Ghetto to the Supreme Court," Body Politic, no. 43 (1978), p. 7"Gays Picket Supreme Court," GO Info, 5, no. 8 (October 1978): 1"Gay Tide Case," Gay Tide, no. 20 (September 1978), p. 3"Gay Case Reaches Supreme Court," Body Politic, no. 47 (1978), p. 15"GATE Pickets Sun," Gazette (Dalhousie Univ., Halifax), 12 October 1978, p. 8"Court Hears Gay Rights Appeal: Precedent-setting Case," Ottawa Journal, 6 October 1978, p. 13
