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The Gay Alliance Toward Equality, or GATE, was one of the first Canadian gay liberation groups.〔Ed Jackson and Stan Persky, ''Flaunting It! 1964-1982: A Decade of Gay Journalism from The Body Politic''. Pink Triangle Press, 1982.〕 Formed in spring 1971 in Vancouver, British Columbia by Maurice Flood, GATE was the first Canadian gay group to explicitly discuss and plan civil rights strategies for achieving gay and lesbian equality under Canadian law. Autonomous groups with the same name were subsequently set up in other cities in Canada, including Edmonton and Toronto.〔 One of the first high-profile cases launched for gay rights in Canada was launched by the Vancouver chapter of GATE in response to the ''Vancouver Sun'' Other prominent activities taken on by the group included picketing various human rights commissions over the lack of human rights protection for sexual orientation under Canadian law,〔 and taking on an advocacy role in the wrongful dismissal suit of John Damien when the Ontario Racing Commission fired him as a racing steward because of his sexuality.〔 The Toronto group led a successful campaign in 1973 to lobby Toronto City Council to adopt a policy forbidding discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation in municipal hiring, making the city the first jurisdiction in Canada to do so.〔"City Bars Job Discrimination", ''The Body Politic'', no. 10, 1973.〕 In its later years, GATE also undertook some activities as a political party. One activist, Robert Douglas Cook, ran as a GATE candidate in the 1979 provincial election in the electoral district of West Vancouver-Howe Sound.〔Karen Fulcher, "We've come a long way, baby!" ''PinkPlayMags'', Autumn 2010.〕 He has been credited by media sources in the past as the first openly gay candidate ever to run for political office in Canadian history,〔 although he was in fact merely the first to run as a candidate of a specifically gay-identified political organization. The group dissolved in 1980.〔 ==See also== *LGBT rights in Canada *List of LGBT rights organisations 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Gay Alliance Toward Equality」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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