November 10 Toronto George Hislop […]

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1980-11-10

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November 10 Toronto George Hislop (with 7,386 votes), the first openly gay candidate to run for municipal office in Canada, was defeated by Gordon Chong (9,640 votes) and Dan Heap (9,344 votes) in his bid to win an aldermanic seat in Ward Six in the Toronto municipal election. Art Eggleton (with 88,953 votes), an alderman who had raised the fear of "gay party politics" during the campaign, defeated John Sewell (86,919 votes), the gay-positive incumbent mayor. The "gay issue" featured prominently in the campaign and brought out much anti-gay literature from groups like the League against Homosexuals, PPO, and Renaissance Canada. (See also November 27, 1980.)

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November 27 Toronto About sixty […]October 19 Toronto About 250 to 350 […]April 9 Toronto George Hislop and […]

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Toronto

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Dan Heap John Sewell Art Eggleton Gordon Chong George Hislop

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Renaissance Canada

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"The Winning Combination," Body Politic, no. 69 (1980–81), p. 12.Ted Welch, "Their Dreams Just Went Up in Votes...," Toronto Sun, 16 November 1980, p. 26 Tom Warner, Never Going Back: A History of Queer Activism in Canada (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2002), pp. 138–40 Pierre Vallières, "Les gais et la politique active: le novembre torontois," Le Berdache, no. 17 (1981), p. 14 "Sun of Sewell" (editorial), Toronto Sun, 19 January 1981, p. 10 "Sun Did Me In: Sewell," Toronto Sun, 16 January 1981, p. 4 Tom Suddon and Paul Leonard, "Scapegoating the NDP," Body Politic, no. 71 (1981), p. 7 John Sewell, "Sewell on Ice: A Private Recollection on Public Life. Issues, Images and Intrigues," Toronto Life, February 1981, pp. 40–43, 68 "Remember George on November 10th," Action: The Right to Privacy Committee Newsletter, November 1980, p. 1 "Losing and Learning" (editorial), Body Politic, no. 69 (1980–81), p. 8 Ross Laver, "Anti-homosexual Vote Blamed for Loss," Globe and Mail, metro ed., 11 November 1980, p. 11 Ed Jackson, "The Hot Little Issue Gets Big: And the Issue Is Us," Body Politic, no. 68 (1980), pp. 14–15 Ed Jackson, "Close, but Not Enough," Body Politic, no. 69 (1980–81), pp. 9–10, 12 "Is This Why George Hislop Lost in Ward 6?" Downtowner (Toronto), 19 November–3 December 1980, pp. 1–2 Cheryl Hawkes, "A Political Homosexual in Toronto the Straight," Maclean's, 10 November 1980, pp. T1–T2 Robin Hardy, "How a Winning Ticket Lost to Conservative Trend in Canadian Elections: 'Toronto the Good' vs. 'San Francisco North,'" Advocate, no. 309 (1981), pp. 13–15 Robert Fulford, "The Politics of Homophobia," Saturday Night, April 1981, pp. 9–10 Doug Fetherling, "Grand Delusion: John Sewell Forgot That the Voters of Toronto Like Their Mayors to be Affable, Colourful and Powerless," Avenue Magazine, 1, no. 1 (May–June 1981): 20–21 "Election '80," Action: The Right to Privacy Committee Newsletter, December 1980, pp. 4–5 Val Edwards, "The Time, the Place, and the Person," Body Politic, no. 68 (1980), pp. 22–25 Virginia Corner, "Police Displayed Anti-homosexual Leaflets: Hislop," Toronto Star, four star ed., 24 October 1980, p. A16 Leo Casey, "Toronto the Bad: The Gays, the NDP and the Civic Election," This Magazine, March 1981, pp. 4–7 Alden Baker, "Sewell Is Defeated by Eggleton: First Loss by Incumbent Since '66," Globe and Mail, metro ed., 11 November 1980, p. 11 "The Anti-gay Vote," 7 News (Toronto), 21 November 1980, p. 1 "Anti-gay Filth" (editorial)," Varsity (Univ. of Toronto), 29 October 1980, p. 4 "And On Your Right …: A House Tour in the Suburbs of Politics," Body Politic, no. 69 (1980–81), p. 11

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