Description
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.
Source
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