May 22 Canada A federal election was […]

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1979-05-22

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May 22 Canada A federal election was held in which Pierre Trudeau's Liberal Party was defeated by the Progressive Conservatives, under the leadership of Joe Clark. In the lead-up to the election, member groups of CLGRC were active in distributing a Gay Rights Charter, which outlined major movement demands in the areas of sexual orientation, the criminal code, and child custody. Many local gay groups also tried to raise gay issues during the election campaign, but without much success. In the British Columbia riding of Burnaby, however, twenty-seven-year-old Svend Robinson was elected for the NDP; a strong voice for LGBT issues from his election, in spring 1988 Robinson became the first sitting Canadian MP to announce his gay sexual orientation.

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