02-14-2019, 08:14 PM
(This post was last modified: 02-14-2019, 08:18 PM by Unsapien.
Edit Reason: I tried to add a link to the article in the Ottawa Citizen newspaper but the link doesn't seem to want to work
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A.G.T. (another gay thread)
A.G.T. (another gay thread)
I was about to post about the recent (and first) Winterpride festival that was held in Ottawa this past week, celebrating "50 years since the partial decriminalization of homosexuality in Canada" where the first prime minister Trudeau famously said "The state has no business in the bedrooms of the nation"
But then I found this...
About the myth of the 1969 criminal code reforms...
The theme is a celebration of the 50th anniversary “of the partial decriminalization of homosexual acts in Canada.” as “a watershed moment” for LGBTQ2 rights even though, two years later in August 1971, the first cross-country demonstration for lesbian and gay rights on Parliament Hill was explicitly directed against the limitations of this reform.
No such decriminalizaton, partial or otherwise, took place in 1969. No offences were repealed. Instead, the government of Pierre Elliott Trudeau added an “exception clause” for the offences of gross indecency and buggery. They would no longer be crimes if they were committed in a narrow private realm between only two adults, aged 21 and over. This was based on a discriminatory age of consent informed by the myth that male adolescents and young men needed extra legal protection from “homosexual advances.” Meanwhile the age of consent for most heterosexual sex was then set at 14.
I think you are still not allowed to give blood in Canada if you are a man that had sex with another man within the past year, because of that stupid myth about some fake "link" between homosexuality and the spread of AIDS.
Still so far to go... even in "liberal" Canada.
But then I found this...
About the myth of the 1969 criminal code reforms...
The theme is a celebration of the 50th anniversary “of the partial decriminalization of homosexual acts in Canada.” as “a watershed moment” for LGBTQ2 rights even though, two years later in August 1971, the first cross-country demonstration for lesbian and gay rights on Parliament Hill was explicitly directed against the limitations of this reform.
No such decriminalizaton, partial or otherwise, took place in 1969. No offences were repealed. Instead, the government of Pierre Elliott Trudeau added an “exception clause” for the offences of gross indecency and buggery. They would no longer be crimes if they were committed in a narrow private realm between only two adults, aged 21 and over. This was based on a discriminatory age of consent informed by the myth that male adolescents and young men needed extra legal protection from “homosexual advances.” Meanwhile the age of consent for most heterosexual sex was then set at 14.
I think you are still not allowed to give blood in Canada if you are a man that had sex with another man within the past year, because of that stupid myth about some fake "link" between homosexuality and the spread of AIDS.
Still so far to go... even in "liberal" Canada.
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