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September Toronto Stu Newton formed […]

When

1980-09

Description

September Toronto Stu Newton formed the right-wing lobby group Positive Parents of Ontario (PPO) to help defeat the creation of a proposed liaison committee between the Toronto Board of Education and the local gay community. Over the next months the group distributed fliers targeting school trustees and NDP members of the Toronto Metro Council who had supported the proposal. (See also September 15 and October 19, 1980.)

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October 19 Toronto About 250 to 350 […]

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Toronto

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Stu Newton

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Positive Parents of OntarioMetro Council, Metropolitan Toronto CouncilNew Democratic PartyToronto Board of Education

All Citations

"Gays Pull the Strings Say Positive Parents," Body Politic, no. 70 (1981), p. 16.Leo Casey, "Gay Rights, the Election and the Toronto Board," Mudpie (Toronto), November 1980, p. 13