June 27–July 1 Calgary Celebration […]

When

1980-06-27 – 1980-07-01

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June 27–July 1 Calgary Celebration '80, the eighth annual conference of CLGRC, was held. Calgary's mayor Ross Alger had earlier refused to proclaim an official civic day in honour of the national conference, and declined to officially open it. Workshops and seminars were held at MacEwen Hall, University of Calgary. Other events included a dance, a buffet, and a rally/picnic held at Prince's Island park. Plans for a march though Calgary's city centre on June 28 were originally abandoned in fear that it would provoke increased violence against gays. But when GIRC applied for a parade permit and was denied by Calgary police, it sponsored Calgary's first gay picket, at Calgary City Hall, which generated much attention in the local media. During the final plenary session, the sixty-seven conference delegates (of whom fewer than ten were women) voted to disband the CLGRC, as it was seen to have outlived its usefulness; this decision was ratified in September 1980 by 70 percent of the CLGRC members. In its place, the Canadian Association of Lesbians and Gay Men (CALGM) was formed as an individual membership organization devoted entirely to federal lobbying for lesbians and gays. CALGM's interim executive included Henry Berg (Calgary), Peter Maloney (Toronto), Claire McDuff-Oliver (Edmonton), and Charlotte Rochon (Saskatoon). In May 2007, an internal Toronto police report leaked to the Globe and Mail revealed that an undercover police officer had followed George Hislop and Peter Maloney from Toronto to the Calgary conference to keep track of their activities.

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