June 27–July 1 Calgary Celebration […]

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1980-06-27 – 1980-07-01

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June 27–July 1 Calgary Celebration '80, the eighth annual conference of CLGRC, was held. Calgary's mayor Ross Alger had earlier refused to proclaim an official civic day in honour of the national conference, and declined to officially open it. Workshops and seminars were held at MacEwen Hall, University of Calgary. Other events included a dance, a buffet, and a rally/picnic held at Prince's Island park. Plans for a march though Calgary's city centre on June 28 were originally abandoned in fear that it would provoke increased violence against gays. But when GIRC applied for a parade permit and was denied by Calgary police, it sponsored Calgary's first gay picket, at Calgary City Hall, which generated much attention in the local media. During the final plenary session, the sixty-seven conference delegates (of whom fewer than ten were women) voted to disband the CLGRC, as it was seen to have outlived its usefulness; this decision was ratified in September 1980 by 70 percent of the CLGRC members. In its place, the Canadian Association of Lesbians and Gay Men (CALGM) was formed as an individual membership organization devoted entirely to federal lobbying for lesbians and gays. CALGM's interim executive included Henry Berg (Calgary), Peter Maloney (Toronto), Claire McDuff-Oliver (Edmonton), and Charlotte Rochon (Saskatoon). In May 2007, an internal Toronto police report leaked to the Globe and Mail revealed that an undercover police officer had followed George Hislop and Peter Maloney from Toronto to the Calgary conference to keep track of their activities.

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March 18 Ottawa Denis LeBlanc of GO […]April 7 Calgary A public forum was […]

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Calgary University of Calgary Toronto

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Claire McDuff-Oliver Ross Alger Henry Berg P.M. (Peter Maloney)Charlotte Rochon George Hislop

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Canadian Association of Lesbians and Gay Men National Gay Rights Coalition Coalition nationale pour les droits des homosexuels NGRC CNDH, Canadian Lesbian and Gay Rights Coalition / Coalition canadienne pour les droits des lesbiennes et des gais (CLGRC / CCDLG)Gay Information and Resources Calgary GIRC Calgary Police Service Toronto Police Service

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The Globe and Mail, The Globe Magazine

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Doug Whitfield, "Critical Mass Missing" (letter), Body Politic, no. 75 (1981), p. 5.Doug Whitfield, "The CALGM Programme" (letter), Body Politic, no. 67 (1980), p. 4 Cathy A. Vail, "Celebration '80, 8th Annual Conference," Calgary Women's Newspaper, July–August 1980, p. 8 Gillian Steward, "Western Hospitality Doesn't Include Gays," Toronto Star, Sunday ed., 29 June 1980, p. A8 Catherine Shapcott, "Mums and Dads Share Paranoia," Calgary Albertan, 29 June 1980, p. 8 Catherine Shapcott, "It's Not Abnormal: Experts," Calgary Albertan, 29 June 1980, p. 9 Catherine Shapcott, "Gay Teachers Living in Fear," Calgary Albertan, 29 June 1980, p. 8 Catherine Shapcott, "Clubs, Church Cater to Gays' Needs," Calgary Albertan, 29 June 1980, p. 9 ADGQ, "Celebration '80: Un éditorial où nous tuons un monstre," Le Berdache, no. 14 (1980), p. 3 Catherine Butlin, "Gay Delegates Plan to Picket," Calgary Herald, 28 June 1980, p. B2 Catherine Butlin, "Gay Visitors May Stage Rights Parade," Calgary Herald, 26 June 1980, p. B1 Catherine Butlin, "Police Chief Turns Down Gay Parade," Calgary Herald, 27 June 1980, p. B1 "CLGRC Dissolved/CALGM Born," Gay Niagara News, 1, no. 7 (September 1980): 4 "CLGRC: Don't Mourn Shadows... Move On to Better Things," After Stonewall, no. 11 (1980), pp. 10–14 "CLGRC Must Find New Home," Gay Niagara News, 1, no. 4 (April 1980): 5 Alan Cairns, "Police Eavesdropped on Chair of Review Board: Susan Eng Wants to Know Who Was Running Surveillance," Globe and Mail, greater Toronto ed., 18 May 2007, p. A12 "Calgary Police Bar Homosexual Parade," Globe and Mail, metro ed., 30 June 1980, p. 8 "Calgary's Gay Community Hold Their Own Celebration," Vancouver Sun, four star ed., 30 June 1980, p. D12 Canadian Lesbian and Gay Rights Coalition (CLGRC) papers, accessions 1995–106 and 1995–107, Canadian Lesbian and Gay Archives, Toronto Russ Congdon, "Gay Business Is Still Business" (letter), Body Politic, no. 68 (1980), p. 4 John Cooper, "Gay Conference Was Major Turning Point," Briarpatch, October 1980, p. 2 Chris Davis, "Violence Feared, Groups Cancel March," Body Politic, no. 63 (1980), p. 13 Eric Dawson, "Bob Harris Strives to Prove Homosexuals No 'Threat' to Society: Profile," Calgary Herald, 4 February 1980, p. A7 "Delegates Bury National Coalition As Movement Ponders New Tactics," Body Politic, no. 65 (1980), pp. 8–9 "Don't Mourn—Reorganize" (editorial), Body Politic, no. 65 (1980), p. 7 "GIRC to Host National Conference," Gay Calgary, no. 12 (1979), p. 1 Fred Haeseker, "Gay Film Festival Set for Plaza" (column), Calgary Herald, 27 June 1980, p. D12 Gerald Hannon, "Calgary: Growing Pains in Boomtown," Body Politic, no. 66 (1980), pp. 19–25 Gerald Hannon, "Can the Operation Be Successful if the Patient Is Already Dead?: A Preview of the National Conference," Body Politic, no. 64 (1980), p. 12 "The Hard First Step" (editorial), Body Politic, no. 65 (1980), p. 7 Robert Harris, "Alger," Gay Horizons, no. 16 (1980), p. 3 Robert Harris, "Celebration '80," Gay Horizons, no. 15 (1980), pp. 1, 10 Robert Harris, "Replying to Jack Tennant: News Analysis," Gay Horizons, no. 16 (1980), p. 5 Heather Hill, "Gays Protest Parade Ban," Calgary Albertan, 29 June 1980, p. 1 "Homosexual Rights Advocacy" (editorial), Calgary Herald, 27 June 1980, p. A6 Bill Houghton, "Calgary Conference," VGCC News, 1, no. 7 (August 1980): 9–10 Bill Houghton, "National Conference in Calgary," VGCC News, 1, no. 6 (July 1980): 11–12 Nancy Millar, "Churchgoers in Quandary As They Contemplate Gay Rights" (column), Calgary Herald, 28 June 1980, p. B17 Jim Monk, "Conference Blues," Body Politic, no. 73 (1981), p. 18 "National Gay Conference," SPAG News (Vancouver), August 1980, p. 5 "Never a Gay Day Says Calgary Mayor," Body Politic, no. 63 (1980), p. 16 Portia Priegert, "Gays Picket City Hall to Protest Parade Ban," Calgary Herald, 30 June 1980, p. B2

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Ross Alger

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