May 10 Vancouver Robert Cook, a […]

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1979-05-10

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May 10 Vancouver Robert Cook, a member of GATE (Vancouver), ran as a protest candidate in the West Vancouver–Howe Sound riding during the British Columbia provincial election, held May 10, 1979. Cook ran, unsuccessfully, against the incumbent Allan Williams, the Social Credit party's minister of labour, in an attempt to raise human rights issues relating to sexual orientation. Other out gay candidates surfaced during the campaign, including Keith Eady and Doug Henderson, both of whom ran unsuccessfully in the riding of Vancouver-Centre.

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Vancouver

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Doug Henderson Keith Eady Allan Williams Bob Cook

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Social Credit party of Canada Gay Alliance toward Equality GATE Vancouver

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Steve Wadell, "Conservatives 'Come Out' for Gay Rights," Georgia Straight, 10–16 May 1979, pp. 1, 8, 45."Vanc. Enumeration Done," SPAG News (Vancouver), 1, no. 7 (May 1979): 11 "Van Gays Realize Political Punch," SPAG News (Vancouver), 1, no. 8 (June 1979): 8 "Provincial Questionnaire," SPAG News (Vancouver), 1, no. 7 (May 1979): 6–9 "Prov. Candidate Evaluation," SPAG News (Vancouver), 1, no. 7 (May 1979): 1 Ros Oberlyn, "Gay Candidates Don't Faze Tory Leader Vic Stephens," Vancouver Express, 7 May 1979, p. A11 "NDP's for Us, Say Gays," Vancouver Courier, 26 April 1979, p. 24 "May 3rd—What They Said!" SPAG News (Vancouver), 1, no. 7 (May 1979): 9 Geoff Mains, "British Columbia Election Results... Where Now?" SEARCH News, 2, no. 4 (May 1979): 7, 11 "A High Profile Campaign: Election '79," Gay Tide, no. 22 (1979), pp. 6–7 "Gay PCs Lose in Centre," SPAG News (Vancouver), 1, no. 8 (June 1979): 10 "Gay Alliance Fields West Van Candidate," Victoria Colonist, 27 April 1979, p. 22 Peter Calamai, "Homosexuals Planning to Confront Candidates," Ottawa Citizen, final ed., 25 April 1979, p. 12 "B.C.'s First Openly Gay Candidate," SPAG News (Vancouver), 1, no. 7 (May 1979): 4 "B.C. Candidate Scores Points," Body Politic, no. 53 (1979), p. 15

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Allan Williams

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