CRIM 332 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: George Klippert, Indictable Offence, Lgbt Social Movements
8 Apr 2017
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Homosexual identity: emerges in the 1940s, advanced by the medical profession, homosexuality regulated as a mental health problem (category in the dsm) Hiv epidemic: appeared as a disease of the gay male population, also found through contaminated blood, this is how the gay community got the world"s attention. Post-charter legal cases (select cases: 1995 egan v. canada, 2 gay men who sued ottawa for the right to claim spousal pension (pension benefits available to married heterosexual couples). Should these men be entitled to equal pension benefits: they lost, 1999 m v. h, 2 toronto women who lived together over 12 years. After they broke up, m sued h for spousal support. But spouse defined as married or man & women unmarried who has lived together for over 3 years: definition of spouse = unconstitutional. Ordered for the law to be changed to ensure equal treatment of same sex spouses. Sunday, 2 people objected but he read them on the third.
