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What we got: The details
Stories from The Body Politic and Xtra, 1974 to 1997

Introduction

I began this as a working record for my own use in preparation of What we demanded; What we got, following up on We Demand, from the August 28, 1971 protest on Parliament Hill. It became a rather large document (appx 18,000 words), but it's now broken up into 10 pages, including this one.

What we demanded; What we got tells the same stories in briefer form. But, having compiled all these details I decided to make them available here. The headlines leading off each entry, and the quotations many contain, give a taste of the times -- and the entire record shows just how much time it can take to achieve (or nor achieve) legislative reforms.

This record covers some of the same ground as Victories and defeats: A gay and lesbian chronology 1964 - 1982, which originally appeared in Flaunting It! and is now here online. But it goes well beyond 1982 and focuses on federal law reform -- which for many years took a back seat to municipal and provincial efforts.

Some notes:

Order and dates: Entries are in order by cover dates of The Body Politic and, from 1987, Xtra. Where TBP carried a two-month date (e.g., Dec 77 / Jan 78), only the first month is given. Issues were usually released around the middle of the month preceding the cover date. Those dated Oct 1975 to Aug 1976 covered two months but were dated for the last month (e.g., the Oct 1975 issue was released in Aug 1975).
Comprehensiveness: Not! Some stories are not recorded, especially from 1990 through 1995; for that period I looked only at issues of Xtra (or most of them) carrying news noted in its year- end compendiums. Other sources were also used for What we demanded; What we got, and are noted there. (Another one used here: John Robert Colombo: The Canadian Global Almanac, Macmillan Canada, 1994.)
Abbreviations used:
- TBP: The Body Politic
Changes of government: Many federal minister and other MPs are noted below, their positions and views affected by who was in power at the time. Dates for governing parties and their leaders (the prime minister):
- Oct 1993 to present: Liberal Party
  (Jean Chrétien)

Entries are grouped by subjects, directly related to the ten demands made in We Demand in August 1971, and in the same order.

Each subject is on a separate page; links are below. The number of stories from The Body Politic and Xtra summarized on each page is shown, as well as approximate total word count. Links on each page can bring you back to the top of this introductory page or to the List of pages below. "Previous" and "Next" page links are also provided throughout.

Rick Bébout, June 1997

List of pages

Criminal Code reform (32 stories; 3,000 words)
(Sexual offences; DSO status; age of consent)
Current state of Criminal Code (2,500 words)
Immigration (12 stories; 800 words)
Federal employment rights (2 stories, leads to others; 130 words)
Divorce and child custody (2 stories; 230 words)
Canadian Armed Forces (20 stories; 1,470 words)
RCMP (24 stories; 1,970 words)
Other rights in law (16 stories related to "spousal" rights, other leads; 1,650 words)

Income tax and pensions
Public housing
Education
Adoption
Private sector employment and accommodation
Police harassment
Canadian Bill of Rights, 1960

Federal human rights protection (63 stories; 5,300 words)
(Canadian Human Rights Act, 1977; Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, 1982)

[We Demand] (http://www.clga.ca/Material/Records/docs/wedemand.htm)

[What we demanded; What we got] (http://www.clga.ca/Material/Records/docs/wegot.htm)

[Victories and defeats: A gay and lesbian chronology 1964-1982]
(http://www.clga.ca/Material/Records/docs/flitchro/fcint.htm)

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