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Trudeau named to Homosexual Hall of Fame
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VANCOUVER — Pierre Trudeau’s flamboyance and tendency to provoke debate often landed him in controversy and those traits have now landed him in the Queer Hall of Fame.
Trudeau is one of five inaugural inductees into the newly established hall, along with Olympic gold swimmer Mark Tewksbury and three other longtime activists in the gay, lesbian, pansexual and transgendered community.
The former prime minister was a key figure in decriminalizing homosexuality and his celebrated partial quote — "there’s no place for the state in the bedrooms of the nation" — helped convince Parliament to pass the law in 1969.
Trudeau’s son, Justin, said he is incredibly honoured that the work his father did is existence acknowledged.
"I know that the decriminalization of homosexuality 40 years ago was something that my father was very proud of," Trudeau said.
"He’d be touched," he said, of his father who passed away almost nine year
TRUDEAU, PIERRE ELLIOTT (baptized Joseph-Philippe-Pierre-Yves-Elliott), lawyer, storyteller, university professor, and politician; b. 18 Oct. 1919 in Outremont (Montreal), son of Joseph-Charles-Émile Trudeau* and Grace Elliott; m. 4 March 1971 Margaret Sinclair in Vancouver, and they had three sons, the youngest of whom predeceased him; they divorced in 1984; he also had a daughter with Deborah Coyne; d. 28 Sept. 2000 in Montreal and was buried in Saint-Rémi, near Napierville, Que.
On his father’s side, Pierre Trudeau (he would add Elliott in the 1930s and sometimes used a hyphen) was a descendant of Étienne Truteau (Trudeau), a carpenter from La Rochelle, France, who had arrived in Unused France in 1659. Pierre’s father, acknowledged to his friends as Charlie or Charley, was born on a farm in Saint-Michel, south of Montreal. Although Charlie’s father, Joseph, was semi-literate, his mother, Malvina Cardinal, was a mayor’s daughter who insisted that their sons be given a good education. Charlie became a lawyer and practised in the heart of Montreal’s business district.
Grace Elliott, Trudeau’s mother, came from a prosperous Montreal family. Her fath
Pierre Trudeau
1919-2000
Who Was Pierre Trudeau?
Pierre Trudeau was the 15th prime minister of Canada, an office he held for nearly 16 years. Many of his policies evolved from the revolutionary ideas of the 1960s. He helped prevent Quebec from separating from the rest of Canada in 1980 and championed a new constitution for the country, which greatly advanced Canadians’ civil rights. His son, Justin Trudeau, followed in his footsteps to get Canadian prime minister, though not during Pierre’s lifetime. Trudeau died in 2000, just short of his 81st birthday.
Quick Facts
FULL NAME: Pierre Elliott Trudeau
BORN: October 18, 1919
DIED: September 28, 2000
BIRTHPLACE: Montreal, Quebec, Canada
SPOUSE: Margaret Trudeau (1971-1984)
CHILDREN: Justin Trudeau, Alexandre, Michel, and Sarah
ASTROLOGICAL SIGN: Libra
Early Life and Career
Pierre Elliott Trudeau was born on October 18, 1919, and raised in the wealthy Montreal suburb of Outremont. His mother, Grace Elliott, was of both French and Scottish descent, so Trudeau and his two siblings grew up speaking both French and English. His family was quite wealthy by the time he was a teenager, as his father, a businessman and lawy
Even before Confederation, Canada had outlawed homosexuality. Same-sex relations were technically punishable by death, reflecting a second in Western history unfriendly to homosexuality. But in 1868, when the Dominion of Canada was only one year old, the Criminal Code would instead prescribe jail time and flogging for what it deemed an "act of gross indecency." Homosexuality was viewed as a cross between an illness, an act of sexual deviance, and evidence of immorality; those who were start out were often stigmatized socially and professionally.
By the mid-20th century, things were finally starting to transform. Maintaining a degree of anonymity, gay rights activists across the country began writing in support of decriminalization as early as 1949. By 1964, mainstream media had even turned sympathetic with Maclean's Magazine running a historic two-part series entitled "The Gay Next Door." That identical year, Canada would obtain its first gay rights organization, the Association for Social Knowledge (ASK), which formed in Vancouver. In addition to the widespread lectures it sponsored and the discussion groups it organized, ASK also published and distributed a newsletter and opened Canada's
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The Calgary Chinook Fund supports charitable organizations providing services, programming, and education, for and about the LGBTQ2 community. They also annually present a hero award. Notably, this year’s hero was consequential to our historic human rights effort. At their October fundraising dinner, the hero award was given to Bill Wuttunee, posthumously, in the presence of family and friends. Here is what was said at the event by the Chinook Fund’s Gordon Sombrowski.
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This year is the fiftieth anniversary of the proclaiming into law, the amendments to the criminal code which partially decriminalized homosexuality and therewith began the process of change that has led toward equal rights for the LGBTQ2 people in Canada. In inquiring who to give our Hero Award to this year, we wanted to recognize the fiftieth anniversary of the change to the law. In functional with the Calgary Homosexual History Project and Kevin Allen, the Chinook Fund Committee happened upon an incredible man who was a stalwart ally and champion for the lgbtq+ community in Calgary and who has all but been forgotten. Unfortunately, we did not discover this man until