February 12 Ottawa Peter Maloney […]

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1972-02-12

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February 12 Ottawa Peter Maloney, who ran as the Liberal party candidate opposite Ontario Attorney-General Allan Lawrence in the October 1971 Ontario provincial election, announced that he was gay during a policy seminar at the annual Liberal Party convention. Maloney made the announcement during a confrontation with Otto Lang, Canada's new Attorney-General and formerly Minister of Manpower and Immigration. Maloney protested the discrimination against gays posed by the Canadian Immigration Act.

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Ottawa

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Otto Lang Allan Lawrence P.M. (Peter Maloney)

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Department of Manpower and Immigration Liberal Party of Canada

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Canadian Immigration Act

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Helen Worthington, "Discrimination Is Very Subtle, Homosexual Says," Toronto Star, four star ed., 26 November 1975, p. F3.J.G. Shepherd, "A New Kind of Politician: Gay, Proud: Toronto's Peter Maloney," Advocate (Los Angeles), no. 96 (1972), p. 6;Alexander Ross, "Peter Maloney Publicly Defies Homosexual Myth," Toronto Star, four star ed., 25 February 1972, p. 25;Peter Maloney, "Maloney: Coming Out in Politics," Body Politic, no. 3 (1972), pp. 7-8;Anthony L. Côté, "Liberals Hear Gay Maloney," Ryersonian (Ryerson Polytechnical Institute, Toronto), 15 February 1972, p. 1;N. John Adams, "Maloney Tells Liberals of His Homosexuality," Globe and Mail, metro ed., 14 February 1972, p. 10;

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Allan Lawrence

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