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January–February Ottawa Don Cherry […]
When
1981-01 – 1981-02
Description
January–February Ottawa Don Cherry (not the hockey pundit), the retiring president of the Central Canada Exhibition Association, referred to gays as "dicky lickers" during a public meeting of the association's board. Cherry was discussing his unsuccessful attempt to bring Anita Bryant to Ottawa in 1979, saying that it would have been appropriate then because "that was the year the dicky lickers were having their convention," a reference to the gay conference held in Ottawa that year. The incoming president of the association apologized for the remark.
