June 30 Moncton, N.B. Fearing a […]
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1981-06-30
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June 30 Moncton, N.B. Fearing a large influx of gays and lesbians into the city for a planned gay picnic on July 1 and the public backlash this might produce, Moncton City Council passed a by-law amendment forbidding organized groups of more than forty people from assembling in Centennial Park. The picnic had been planned by Don Cormier and others, and was to be the first public event for gay people in Moncton. At that time, Moncton was a conservative community with no gay organization. Despite the new by-law, one hundred gay men and lesbians held a picnic in Centennial Park on July 1 in the presence of a large number of policemen. (See also August 1981.)
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" We Were Used..." (editorial), Moncton Times, 3 July 1981.Robert Trow, "Moncton Passes Special Bylaw but Fails to Halt Picnic in Park," Body Politic, no. 76 (1981), p. 10"Special Legislation Would Prevent Picnic: Moncton Council," Moncton Transcript, 30 June 1981"Picnic Slated," Moncton Transcript, 27 June 1981"Picnic in the Park Uneventful," Moncton Transcript, 2 July 1981, pp. 1–2"Moncton Passes Anti-gay Bylaw," Saskatoon Star-Phoenix, 30 June 1981, p. A11Robin Metcalfe, "The Great Moncton Picnic," Making Waves (Halifax), no. 3 (1982), p. 9"Maritime Briefs," Have You Heard? (April 1981), p. (7)Philip Mail, "Councillor Predicts Trouble Unless Picnic Is Called Off," Moncton Transcript, 29 June 1981"Few Gays, Lots of Police at Picnic," Bedford-Sackville Daily News, 2 July 1981, p. 8"Aimed against Gays, Bylaw is 'Biased,'" Globe and Mail, metro ed., 1 July 1981, p. 9
