July 24 Toronto Journalist Sidney […]

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1964-07-24

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July 24 Toronto Journalist Sidney Katz announced plans for the formation in October of a Homophile Reform Society, to be based in either Toronto or Ottawa. A six-man committee had met to organize the society, whose first objective would be to press for the amendment of Section 149 of the Criminal Code, which concerned "gross indecency." Gary Nichols of the Committee on Social Hygiene may have been a moving force behind the group, which appears to have never been very active.

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Ottawa Toronto

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Gary Nichols Sidney Katz

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Committee on Social Hygiene Homophile Reform Society

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Section 149 of the Criminal Code

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"Where Have All the... Gone?" Two, no. 5 (1965), p. 3."Seek to Form Society to Aid Sex Deviants," Globe and Mail, metro ed., 25 July 1964, p. 4;Gary Kinsman, The Regulation of Desire: Sexuality in Canada (Montréal: Black Rose Books, 1987), p. 155;Gary Kinsman, "Official Discourse as Sexual Regulation: The Social Organization of the Sexual Policing of Gay Men" (Ph.D. dissertation. University of Toronto, 1989), pp. 391-92;Sidney Katz, "Homosexuals Plan Own Organization," Toronto Daily Star, night ed., 25 July 1964, p. 2;

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Section 149 of the Criminal Code

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