Interview with Michael Hendricks & René Leboeuf, discussing AIDS and La Committee sur la Violance
HIV/AIDS, Marriage Equality, Police Brutality
This video is an excerpt from an interview with Michael Hendricks & René Leboeuf (2004-07-30), discussing topics such as AIDS, ACT-UP, Sex Garage; police violence against gays and lesbians; La Committee sur la Violance; and their case for equal marriage in Quebec.
Nancy Nicol
Clip is original footage for documentary series, From Criminity to Equality, including Stand Together (2002), The Queer Nineties (2009), Politics of the Heart (2005) and The End of Second Class (2006), Produced and Directed by Nancy Nicol. http://www.yorku.ca/nnicol/documentary.html
1990s, 2004-07-30
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Quebec, 2004-07-30, 1990s
Interview with Chris Vogel and Richard North, as they discuss their marriage in 1974
Gay Liberation Movement, Marriage Equality
This video is an excerpt from an interview with Chris Vogel and Richard North (2004-07-20) about gay liberation and their marriage in 1974 in Winnipeg. They discuss predominant views about homosexuality at the time, particularly in relation to Human Rights issues, and their fight to change those views.
Nancy Nicol
Clip is original footage for documentary series, From Criminity to Equality, including Stand Together (2002), The Queer Nineties (2009), Politics of the Heart (2005) and The End of Second Class (2006), Produced and Directed by Nancy Nicol. http://www.yorku.ca/nnicol/documentary.html
2004-07-20, 1970s
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1970s, Winnipeg
Supreme Court hearing on equal marriage, Reference
Marriage Equality, Human Rights,
This video is a excerpt from the Reference period for the Supreme Court hearing on equal marriage on October 6-7, 2004. With speakers from both sides of the case, some state that equal marriage is a human rights issue according to the Charter of Human Right, while others assert that it is not and the institution of marriage should not change in definition.
Speakers include Lauri Arron, Director of Advocacy for Egale Canada Inc.; Derek Roguski; Janet Epp-Buckingham, Director of Law and Policy for the Evangelical Fellowship of Canada; Rev. Dr. Brent Hawkes, Senior Pastor for the Metropolitan Community Church of Toronto (MCCT) and the first pastor to perform same sex marriages in Ontario; R. Douglas Elliott, lawyer for MCCT.
Nancy Nicol
Clip is original footage for documentary series, From Criminity to Equality, including Stand Together (2002), The Queer Nineties (2009), Politics of the Heart (2005) and The End of Second Class (2006), Produced and Directed by Nancy Nicol. http://www.yorku.ca/nnicol/documentary.html
2004-10-06, 2004-10-07
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2004, Ottawa
Canadian Supreme Court ruling on equal marriage, Reference
Equal Rights, Equal Marriage
This clip is an excerpt from Reference period for the Canadian Supreme Court ruling on same sex marriage in Ottawa on December 9, 2004. This commentary discusses how the ruling determined that equal civil marriage for gays and lesbians is a constitutional right, and that religious officials who were morally against it still have religious freedom to refuse to perform ceremonies. Speakers include: Alex Munter, National co-chair for Canadians for Equal Marriage; Martha McCarthy, the lawyer for the Ontario and Quebec couples; R. Douglas Elliott, the lawyer for Metropolitan Community Church of Toronto (MCCT); and Cynthia Peterson of Egale Canada.
Nancy Nicol
Clip is original footage for documentary series, From Criminity to Equality, including Stand Together (2002), The Queer Nineties (2009), Politics of the Heart (2005) and The End of Second Class (2006), Produced and Directed by Nancy Nicol. http://www.yorku.ca/nnicol/documentary.html
2004-12-09
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2004-12-09, Ottawa
Interview with Rev. Dr. Brent Hawkes on the first legal same-sex marriages in Ontario
Marriage Equality
This video is an excerpt of an interview (2004) with Rev. Dr. Brent Hawkes, of the Metropolitan Community Church of Toronto. He discusses his role in performing the first legal same-sex marriages in Canada, which he was able to perform by taking advantage of the publication of banns.
Nancy Nicol
This clip is original footage for documentary series, From Criminity to Equality, including Stand Together (2002), The Queer Nineties (2009), Politics of the Heart (2005) and The End of Second Class (2006), Produced and Directed by Nancy Nicol. http://www.yorku.ca/nnicol/documentary.html
2000-2001, 2004
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2000-2001, Toronto