February 23 Guelph, Ont. Between […]

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1971-02-23

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February 23 Guelph, Ont. Between forty and fifty men and women attended the inaugural meeting of the University of Guelph Homophile Association (UGHA). Guest speakers at the meeting were Charles Hill of UTHA and Rev. Ritchie McMurray, an Anglican chaplain. The UGHA believed that "morally, socially, physically, psychologically, emotionally, and in every other way the homosexual is not inferior to the heterosexual, and homosexuality is in no way inferior to heterosexuality as a valid way of life." Paul Maurice, editor of the student newspaper the Ontarion, became the group's first chairperson, UGHA had problems organizing in its early days and collapsed in late 1971, but was revived in September 1973 with Heather Ramsay and Rick Stenhouse as prominent members. The revived UGHA sponsored a speaker's bureau, dances, and a newsletter. The group received much publicity in the Ontarion; the paper ran a regular "Gays at Guelph" column starting in autumn 1973. Late in 1975 UGHA was renamed Guelph Gay Equality.

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February 4 Guelph, Ont. Four full […]

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Guelph

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Rick Stenhouse Heather Ramsay Paul Maurice Ritchie McMurray Charlie Hill

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University of Toronto Homophile Association UTHA University of Guelph Homophile Association UGHA, Guelph Gay Equality

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University of Guelph Homophile Association Newsletter, The Gaily Planet The Ontarion

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Gays at Guelph

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"Year No. 1 a Success!" Gaily Planet 1 (October 1974): 1-2."University of Guelph Homophile Association (UGHA)" vertical file, Canadian Lesbian and Gay Archives, Toronto;(Rick Stenhouse), "Gays at Guelph" (letter), Ontarion (Univ. of Guelph), 12 March 1974, p. 15;Paul Shepherd, "Do Guelph Gays Need the UGHA?" Gaily Planet 1 (November 1974): 1;Sergei, Untitled news item, YUHA Newsletter, November 1971, p. 2;Peter Leslie, "Gays at Guelph: Clearing Up Misconceptions about U. of G. Homophile Association" (letter), Ontarion (Univ. of Guelph), 16 July 1974, pp. 10-11;Bryan Dunlop, "Homosexuals Gather: Valid Way of Life," Guelph Daily Mercury, 24 February 1971, p. 17;Jim D. (Dougan), "Gays at Guelph: What Is the UGHA?" Ontarion (Univ. of Guelph), 6 May 1974, p. 17;

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Ritchie McMurray

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