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18 Cards in this Set
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What year did the Criminal Code Reforms happen?
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1969
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Who was the minister of justice at the time of the reforms?
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Pierre Trudeau
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What is Trudeaus' most famous response?
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"Theres no place for the state in the bedrooms of the nation"
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The Pill in Canada
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- birth control - activism started on university campuses
- 1964 - available in Canada - 1982 - illegal - doctor would only prescribe for "menstrual irregularity" |
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"The University of Toronto Women's Liberation Movement"
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1969
- write in demanding the pill |
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"The Birth Control Handbook"
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1968
McGill University - peer education about birth control |
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What caused Trudeau to make birth control legal (and when)?
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1968/69
Feminist movements |
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Trudeau's partial legalization of abortion
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- women had to go before the "therapeutic abortion committee"
- decision of 3 (usually male) doctors - had to agree the pregnancy endangered the women's physical or emotional health - 1/30 women accepted |
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"The Abortion Caravan"
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- first big national women's protest
- happened after "On to Ottawa Trek" (unemployment) - Arrived in Ottawa - Mother's Day 1970 - shut down the House of Commons - read off their list of demands (30 women) |
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What year did the first gay group start at University of Toronto?
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1969
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"We Demand" protests
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Vancouver and Ottawa
1971 - pointed out that the act did not legalize homosexuality in Canada - only partially decriminalized - could only happen between two people, in private, over the age of consent |
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"Instersectionality" in Action
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linked Vietnam war to sexuality
- liberating yourself |
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"A Program for Gay Liberation"
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1971
- eventually win the support of the majority of straights because they are also oppressed by the distortion of sexual relations seen as "normal" |
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Michael Lynch
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July 1979
- gay activist - wrote in "The Body Politic" - 2 months after Harvey Milk assassination |
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Largest mass arrest in Canadian History
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Feb 6, 1981
- shut down and raided gay bath houses - next day gay men arranged a protest with 4,000 people - "enough is enough" |
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When was gay marriage legalized in Canada?
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2005
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"Friendship as a Way of Life"
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- Foucault's first volume of sexuality
1976 |
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"Straight Swinger's club"
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modeled on gay bath houses
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