1964
April (Vancouver): The Association for Social Knowledge, the first homophile organization in Canada, is officially formed.1
1965
September 9: Simon Fraser University opens. Approximately 2,500 students are enrolled for the first semester.2
1966
December 31 (Vancouver): Opening of ASK Community Centre at 1929 Kingsway. It is the first such centre in Canada.3
1967
1968
1969
June 28 (New York City): Patrons and hundreds of street people fight back during a raid on the Stonewall Inn, a gay bar in Greenwich Village. These protests are the symbolic birth of the modern Gay Liberation movement.4
August 26 (Ottawa): Amendments to the Criminal Code, decriminalizing homosexual acts in private between consenting adults twenty-one years of age and older, come into effect (having been passed in May). The bill was introduced by Justice Minister Pierre Trudeau in December of 1967.5
Notes
- Lesbian And Gay Liberation in Canada, p. 7. See the Canadian Lesbian & Gay Archives online for a bit more on ASK and gay happenings in the sixties.
[back] - From the SFU Web site. My previous source for this item, an essay that is no longer online, put the number at exactly 2,403.
[back] - Flaunting It!, p. 226
[back] - More on the Stonewall Riots
[back] - LGLC, pp. 34, 37, 41, 44
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