October Lennoxville, Qué. Daron […]

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1979-10

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October Lennoxville, Qué. Daron Westman was instrumental in forming the Gay Students' Alliance at Bishop's University despite threats, harassment, and a physical attack. The group had moved off-campus by January 1982, however, due to ongoing harassment. Westman and others also formed the community-based l'Association gaie de l'Estrie in Sherbrooke by 1980. (See also September 1980 .)

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Sherbrooke Bishop's University Lennoxville

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Daron Westman

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l’Association gaie de l’Estrie Gay Students' Alliance (Bishop's University)

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Paul Trollope, "19-year-old Forms Student Group Despite Harassment and Attack," Body Politic, no. 59 (1979–80), p. 15."Harcèlement physique contre un étudiant gai," Le Berdache, no. 6 (1979–80), p. 16 "Gays Harassed," Carillon (Univ. of Regina), 8 November 1979, p. 5 "Gay Student Roughed Up, Insulted Following Attempt to Form Alliance," Georgian (Concordia Univ., Montréal), 6 November 1979, p. 6 "Gay Group Forced from Bishop's," Georgian (Concordia Univ., Montréal), 22 January 1980, p. 3 "Bishop's Gays Harassed by 'Disciples of Anita Bryant,'" McGill Daily (McGill Univ., Montréal), 31 October 1979, p. 1

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l’Association gaie de l’Estrie

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