November 21 British Columbia Jim […]

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1981-11-21

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November 21 British Columbia Jim Egan was elected as a regional director for Electoral Area B of the Regional District of Comox-Strathcona. Egan was the first openly gay man living in an openly gay relationship (since 1949, with Jack Nesbit) to be elected to public office in Canada. He was re-elected twice and served from 1981 until 1993 when he decided not to stand for re-election. Egan's initial election was not covered in the gay press.

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British Columbia

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Jack Nesbit Jim Egan

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Jim Egan papers , accessions 1988–006, 1996–130, 1999–024, and 2004–122, Canadian Lesbian and Gay Archives, Toronto.Jim Egan, Challenging the Conspiracy of Silence: My Life As a Canadian Gay Activist, ed. Donald W. McLeod (Toronto: Canadian Lesbian and Gay Archives and Homewood Books, 1998)

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Jack Nesbit

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