January 14 Winnipeg David Dueck, a […]

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1981-01-14

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January 14 Winnipeg David Dueck, a mathematics and film studies instructor at the University of Winnipeg, ordered student Greg Synenko to leave a film studies class in order to "protect" a guest lecturer. Dueck said he did not want Synenko in the class because he was openly gay and this might make the class think that the guest lecturer was also homosexual. Synenko was the head of the newly formed University of Winnipeg's Gay Students' Association. Ironically, the guest lecturer was filmmaker David Demchuk, who was openly gay, and had been invited to speak to the class by Synenko. The incident was widely publicized in Canadian campus newspapers. Dueck resigned from his teaching position in February 1981.

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University of Winnipeg Winnipeg

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David Demchuk Greg Synenko David Dueck

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Robert Trow, "Teacher Is Turfed from Collegiate for Putting Gay Pupil Out of Class," Body Politic, no. 71 (1981), p. 13."Gay Told to Leave," Sheaf (Univ. of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon), 5 February 1981, p. 1 "Gay? Out of My Classroom," Gateway (Univ. of Alberta, Edmonton), 22 January 1981 "Gay Lib Revives at U. of W.!" Out & About (Winnipeg), February 1981, p. 4 "Gay Forced to Leave Class," Varsity (Univ. of Toronto), 28 January 1981, p. 5 "Anti-gay Prof Quits," Gateway (Univ. of Alberta, Edmonton), 5 February 1981

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David Demchuk

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