March 6 Toronto Twelve hundred […]

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1981-03-06

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March 6 Toronto Twelve hundred people attended a Gay Freedom Rally held at St. Lawrence Market North to hear a variety of high-profile speakers, including writer Margaret Atwood, George Hislop, broadcaster Laurier Lapierre, and MP Svend Robinson (NDP–Burnaby), denounce the February 5 bath raids and the failure of the Ontario provincial government to extend human rights protection to lesbians and gays. The event, sponsored by CGRO, included entertainment by folksinger Paul Brown and the quartet the Nylons, as well as a dance.

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St. Lawrence Market Toronto

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Paul Brown Svend Robinson Laurier Lapierre George Hislop Margaret Atwood

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Nylons Coalition for Gay Rights in Ontario CGRO Government of Ontario

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"Rally to Press for 'Gay Rights,'" Toronto Star, four star ed., 4 March 1981, p. A22.Patricia Horsford, "Battle Cry Sounded by Hislop at Rally," Globe and Mail, weekend ed., 7 March 1981, p. 3 "Gay Freedom Rally Wins Support," Body Politic, no. 72 (1981), pp. 15–16 "Gay Freedom Rally" (advertisement), Body Politic, no. 71 (1981), p. 8

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Laurier Lapierre

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