May 10 Vancouver Robert Cook, a […]
When
1979-05-10
Description
May 10 Vancouver Robert Cook, a member of GATE (Vancouver), ran as a protest candidate in the West Vancouver–Howe Sound riding during the British Columbia provincial election, held May 10, 1979. Cook ran, unsuccessfully, against the incumbent Allan Williams, the Social Credit party's minister of labour, in an attempt to raise human rights issues relating to sexual orientation. Other out gay candidates surfaced during the campaign, including Keith Eady and Doug Henderson, both of whom ran unsuccessfully in the riding of Vancouver-Centre.
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VancouverAll People
Doug HendersonKeith EadyAllan WilliamsBob CookAll Organizations
Social Credit party of CanadaGay Alliance toward Equality GATE VancouverAll Citations
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