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May 20 Calgary Participants at the […]
When
1979-05-20
Description
May 20 Calgary Participants at the Prairie Gay Rights Conference (May 19–21) heard allegations that Joe Clark was "soft" on homosexuality. This came two days before Clark's Progressive Conservative party won a minority government in the federal election, and Clark became prime minister. Later, GATE (Edmonton) contacted Clark's campaign office in Jasper, Alberta, to ask about Clark's position on sexual orientation. A PC spokesman declared that Clark was not necessarily opposed to the inclusion of sexual orientation in federal human rights legislation but that he had not made this declaration before the election because it might have affected the election result. (See also May 22, 1979.)
