Canada to apologize for LGBT 'purge'
Source: LGBTQ Nation
By Jeff Taylor · Tuesday, November 28, 2017
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau with trans activist Biko Beauttah at Pride Toronto. Facebook/@bikofans
Canada will apologize for a government policy that purge LGBTQ people from public service and the military.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will deliver the apology in the House of Commons in Ottawa this afternoon.
“The Prime Minister will make a formal apology in the House of Commons to individuals harmed by federal legislation, policies, and practices that led to the oppression of and discrimination against LGBTQ2 people in Canada,” Trudeau’s official itinerary reads.
The policy began in the 1950s, inspired in part by fears that Soviet spies would have more leverage to blackmail LGBTQ people. Homosexual sex was illegal in the country until 1969.
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