Canada 150 15 Years of Guelph Pride

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Street light banner project chronicles LGBTQ2+ history
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1890

Gross Indecency Laws
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1918

1918 Les Mouche Fantastiques
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1963

1963 - Canada's first queer film
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1964

1964 - Canada's first community based homophile organization, the Association for Social Knowledge, or ASK, is founded in Vancouver
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1967

1967 - Everett Klippert’s indefinite imprisonment for having consensual sex leads Pierre Trudeau to remove the state from “the bedrooms of the nation."
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1971

1971 Renowned for its social outings including dances, the University of Guelph Homophile Association is founded
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1977

1977 Quebec becomes the first province to protect gay rights.
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1978

1978 Parents of Gays (POG) is founded in Toronto
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1979

1979 Svend Robinson, Canada's first openly gay MP, is elected
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1981

1981 Operation Soap, a police raid on four gay bathhouses in Toronto, provokes massive demonstrations, becoming Canada’s "Stonewall."
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1982

1982: The new Canadian Charter of Rights allows for the rights of LGBT persons to be read into the protection of the law.
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1986

1986 The AIDS Committee of Guelph, now known as ARCH, is formed to address the HIV epidemic
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1990

1990 International Gay & Lesbian Indigenous gathering adopts the term Two Spirit
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1991

1991 CUPE forms Pink Triangle Committees to promote political action towards LGBTQ equality
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1992

1992 The Canadian Armed Forces allow lesbians, gays, and bisexuals to serve openly in the military
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1998

1998 Albertan Delvin Vriend wins his case at the Supreme Court after being fired for being gay
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1999

1999 M. v. H. makes non-heterosexual couples equal to heterosexual ones under the law.
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2002

2002 Marc Hall wins lawsuit against Durham Catholic School Board and brings his boyfriend to prom
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2003

2003 Guelph's first Pride event, a picnic, takes place in Riverside Park.
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2005

2005 Guelph's library and resource centre for the LGBTQ+ community, Out on the Shelf, opens
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2005

2005 The Civil Marriage Actlegalises same-sex marriage nationwide
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2013

2013 First trans support group, TIGRS, forms in Guelph and rebrands as Gender Intersect in 2015
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2013

2013 The Rainbow Railroad, an NGO helping LGBT people escape state-sponsored violence is officially founded
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2015

2015 MPP Cheri DiNovo's private member͛s bill bans conversion therapy for LGBTQ2 minors
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2016

2016 Canadian Blood Services’ new policy continues to discriminate against gay men
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2016

2016 The All Families Are Equal Act is made law in Ontario
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2017

2017 Our collective shame Prime Minister Justin Trudeau delivers historic apology for past abuses to LGB Canadians
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2017

2017 The transgender flag is raised at Guelph City Hall for the first time
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2017

From the HAART "cocktail" in 1996, to PEP and PrEP in 2016 and 2017, advances in HIV treatment saves millions of lives worldwide
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