October Canada Gay groups across the […]

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1977-10

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October Canada Gay groups across the country began to circulate a petition calling on federal and provincial governments to add sexual orientation to their human rights legislation. NGRC coordinated the petition, with a goal to collect 50,000 signatures by May 15, 1978. The plan was to present the petition to the House of Commons on June 1, 1978, the first anniversary of the passage in the House of the Canadian Human Rights Act. There was some resistance. MP Jake Epp (PC –Provencher), for example, wrote back to the NGRC that he was opposed to the campaign, and that "what is needed is not the protection of homosexuals but for Canadians who are not deviants." The NGRC responded by asking Progressive Conservative leader Joe Clark to reprimand Epp.

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Canada

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Joe Clark Jake Epp

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Liberal-Conservative Party, Conservative Party of Canada, Progressive Conservative party of Canada, Conservative Party of Canada Government of Canada NGRC/CNDH

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Canadian Human Rights Act

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"Petition 50,000," Metro Community News 4(November 1977): 1."NGRC Launches Petition 50,000," Body Politic, no. 38 (1977), p. 21 Iain Hunter, "'Preaching Hate': Gay Rights Group Urges Reprimand for Tory MP," Ottawa Citizen, 7 September 1977, p. 8 David Garmaise, "Petition 50,000 Launched," NGRC Forum, 2, no. 4 (Fall 1977): (5)Ron Dayman, "Le pétition 5,000 (sic) est lancée," Gai(e)s du Québec: Bulletin, 1, no. 6 (December–January 1977–78): (10)"50,000 Signatures: Petition for Gay Human Rights," GO Info, 4, no. 6 (November 1977) : 2

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Jake Epp

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