SOSC 1910 Lecture Notes - Moodle, Reference Question, Heterosexism
29 Jan 2013
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Essay due feb. 29th topic approved by next week. Outlines a group of activist who worked to change quebec"s civil code to adopting laws on gays and lesbians marriage. At the end of the day their cause prevails. Quebec was the first province to make sexual orientation legal in the law. These events led to lesbians and gays against violence. There was violence against older gay men. Act up awareness of hiv infection the gay couple was involved in this. Round table was developed to deal with murders, violence and all types of discrimination. 2 lesbian couples talking about how they had issues with sperm situation. They said that they knew that there would b discrimination for they"re children but wither way there would be. Their gay relationship was a plus not a minus. They tried to get their marriage license and changed it from husband and wife to husband and husband which was illegal in the criminal code.
