June 16 Kelowna, B.C. A proposal by […]

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1966-06-16

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June 16 Kelowna, B.C. A proposal by lawyers Sidney Simons and Douglas Sanders to relax laws concerning homosexual acts between consenting adults was defeated by the criminal justice committee at the annual convention of the British Columbia branch of the Canadian Bar Association. Simons and Sanders, sitting as a sub-committee, had proposed the resolution after studying the Wolfenden Report and conducting a two-year study of Section 49 of the Criminal Code, relating to acts of "gross indecency." The resolution called for the removal of criminal laws prohibiting homosexual acts in private between consenting parties over the age of eighteen. It also urged decriminalizing such acts between parties over the age of fourteen, providing the difference in their ages was not more than two years.

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Kelowna

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Douglas Sanders Sidney Simons

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Canadian Bar Association

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Criminal Code Wolfenden Report

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Gary Kinsman, " Official Discourse as Sexual Regulation: The Social Organization of the Sexual Policing of Gay Men " (Ph.D. dissertation. University of Toronto, 1989), p. 392.Nate Gole, "Lawyers Support Homosexuality Ban: Bar Association Defeats Bid to Follow British Protocol," Vancouver Sun, four star ed., 16 June 1966, p. 24.

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Sidney Simons

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