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[felis_ultharus]

Queer History

I came across Jim Egan again in One of the Boys, talking about his experiences as a gay man in the military in World War II.

This man is everywhere in Canadian queer history. From about 1949 to 1962, he was the Canadian gay liberation movement, writing letters to newspapers and so on long before anyone else, before the lobby groups and legalization.

In 1997, he won the biggest court battle ever for queer people in this country -- making discriminatory laws against us unconstitutional. Because of him, it became illegal to discriminate against us for housing and jobs, for pensions, etc -- and the precedent he set made same-sex marriage possible.

Sadly he never lived to marry his partner of 51 years, Jack Nesbit. He died in 2000.

And Wikipedia has no article on this guy. I was astonished. When I have more time, I'll do more research on his life so I can write a proper one.

Anime

We finished Gankutsuou yesterday. I haven't read The Count of Monte Cristo, which this anime is based on, so I can't say for sure what was in the original. But if it doesn't have a space alien destroyed by the power of true love (in the form of a guy-on-guy kiss), like the anime did, then it ought to have.

Comments

[montrealais.livejournal.com]

There is, however, an article on Egan v. Canada (I wrote it).

[felis-ultharus.livejournal.com]

Thank you. But I still find it frightening that we don't have an article yet on the single biggest name in queer rights in Canada.

When I have more time, I'll dio research. In the meantime, I should come up with some sort of stub. I'd need help to do that, though.