May 20 Calgary Participants at the […]

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1979-05-20

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May 20 Calgary Participants at the Prairie Gay Rights Conference (May 19–21) heard allegations that Joe Clark was "soft" on homosexuality. This came two days before Clark's Progressive Conservative party won a minority government in the federal election, and Clark became prime minister. Later, GATE (Edmonton) contacted Clark's campaign office in Jasper, Alberta, to ask about Clark's position on sexual orientation. A PC spokesman declared that Clark was not necessarily opposed to the inclusion of sexual orientation in federal human rights legislation but that he had not made this declaration before the election because it might have affected the election result. (See also May 22, 1979.)

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May 22 Canada A federal election was […]

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Jasper Calgary

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Joe Clark

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Gay Alliance toward Equality GATE Edmonton Liberal-Conservative Party, Conservative Party of Canada, Progressive Conservative party of Canada, Conservative Party of Canada

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Doug Young and Bob Harris, "Prairie Lesbians and Gays Meet in Calgary," Communigay (Edmonton), no. 3 (1979), pp. 3–4."'A Western Perspective' 1979 Prairie Conference for Lesbians and Gay Men," Gay Saskatchewan (Saskatoon), 2, no. 4 (April 1979): (7–8)"Prairie Meet Scorns Election Scuttlebutt," Body Politic, no. 54 (1979), p. 15 "Prairie Conference for Lesbians and Gay Men," Gaze, June 1979, p. (5)"1979 Prairie Conference for Lesbians and Gay Men," Gay Saskatchewan (Saskatoon), 2, no. 6 (June 1979): (4–5)

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