YEARS/ANNÉES 1985/1986

Allard, Serge.

“Effets civils et organisation conventionelle de l’union homosexuelle.”

Les Cahiers de droit [Québec] 26(2) (juin 1985): 451-470.

“Bref tour d’horizon de quelques notions de droit civil

québécois portant sur les effets principaux de l’état de non-

mariage du couple homosexuel et sur le cadre juridique d’une

éventuelle organisation conventionelle efficiente” –Repère résumé.

Baker, Kathleen, and Wedge, Grant.

Submission to the Administration of Justice Committee of the Legislative

Assembly of Ontario Regarding Bill 7, An Act to Amend Certain Ontario

Statutes to Conform to Section 15 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and

Freedoms. Presented on behalf of the Lesbian & Gay Law Caucus of the

University of Toronto. Toronto: University of Toronto, 1986.

(1 v., unpaged)

Bruner, Arnold.

“Sexual Orientation and Equality Rights.” In Equality Rights and the Canadian

Charter of Rights and Freedoms, chapter 10, pp. 457-492. Edited by

Anne F. Bayefsky and Mary Eberts. Toronto: Carswell, 1985.

Canada. Department of Justice.

Toward Equality: The Response to the Report of the Parliamentary Committee

on Equality Rights = Cap sur l’égalité:…. Ottawa, ON: Ministry of

Supply and Services, 1986.

Minimal contents with respect to sexual orientation, but see

the “Sexual Orientation” section, pp. 13-14 (English section)

and “L’orientation sexuelle,” pp. 17-18 (French section). This is

a response to the Equality for All report, listed elsewhere in this

bibliography.

Canada. Parliament. House of Commons. Subcommittee on Equality Rights.

Equality for All: Report of the Parliamentary Committee on Equality Rights =

Egalité pour tous…. J. Patrick Boyer. Ottawa, Ont.: Queen’s Printer, 1985.

(176, 190 p.)

Text in English and French. Broader than subject of bibliography,

but concerns, in part, gays and employment.

Chapman, Terry L.

“Male Homosexuality: Legal Restraints and Social Attitudes in Western

Canada, 1890-1920.” In Law & Justice in a New Land: Essays in

Western Canadian Legal History, pp. 267-292. Edited by Louis A.

Knafla. Toronto: Carswell, 1986.

The Charter of Rights: Emerging Issues: Proceedings of the Conference on the Topics

of Economic Security, Sexual Orientation and Pornography, Held in Winnipeg,

Manitoba on February 15 & 16, 1985. Sponsored by Project Lambda, the

Manitoba Action Committee on the Status of Women, and the University of

Winnipeg Students’ Association. Winnipeg, Man.: Organising Committee for

the Forum on Emerging Issues Conference, 1986.

(55 p.)

Ref.: AMICUS catalogue record no. 7020581

Some text in French.

Coalition for Gay Rights in Ontario.

Discrimination against Lesbians and Gay Men: The Ontario Human Rights

Commission: A Brief to the Members of the Ontario Legislature.

Toronto: The Coalition, 1986.

(57 p.)

Coffey, Mary Anne.

“Of Father Born: A Lesbian Feminist Critique of the Ontario Law Reform

Commission Recommendations on Artificial Insemination.”

Canadian Journal of Women and the Law 1 (1986): 424-433.

Deverell, William.

Fatal Cruise: The Trial of Robert Frisbee. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1991.

(384 p.; ISBN 0771026633)

Account of and background to murder trial of Frisbee, held in

Victoria, B.C. late 1986 and early 1987. Frisbee, a gay American

man, was accused of murder aboard an Alaska cruise ship in

Canadian waters.

Evangelical Fellowship of Canada. Social Action Commission.

Uncharted Waters: An Examination of the Federal Government’s Plan to

Include “Sexual Orientation” in the Human Rights Act of Canada:

A Brief. Willowdale [Toronto], Ont.: Evangelical Fellowship of Canada,

1986.

(8 p.)

Ref.: OCLC catalog record, accession no. 42674730, in which

title word “orientation” is spelled “orinatation.” Item not seen.

Gay Association in Newfoundland.

A Presentation from the Gay Association in Newfoundland to the House of

Commons Committee of [sic] Equality Rights. St. John’s, Nfld.: The

Association, 1985.

(13 leaves)

Ref.: AMICUS catalogue record no. 12352139

Gay Association in Newfoundland.

A Presentation from the Gay Association in Newfoundland to the Minister of

Justice in favour of Including the Term “Sexual Orientation” in the

Newfoundland and Labrador Human Rights Code. St. John’s, Nfld.: The

Association, 1985[?].

(ca. 19 p.)

Ref.: AMICUS catalogue record no. 12335885

Girard, Philip.

“Sexual Orientation as a Human Right in Canada, 1969-1985.”

Dalhousie Law Journal 10 (Oct. 1986): 267-281.

LegalTrac index expansion of title: “Charterwatch reflections on

equality; Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.”

Gross, Wendy.

“Judging the Best Interests of the Child: Child Custody and the Homosexual

Parent.” Canadian Journal of Women and the Law 2 (1986): 505-531.

One index gives vol. 1 instead of vol. 2 in citation.

Jefferson, James E.

“Gay Rights and the Charter.” University of Toronto Faculty of Law Review 43

(Spring 1985): 70-89.

Leopold, Margaret, and King, Wendy.

“Compulsory Heterosexuality, Lesbians, and the Law: The Case for

Constitutional Protection.” Canadian Journal of Women and the Law 1 (1985):

163-186.

McCarthy, Eugene.

“Gathering Homosexual Evidence in Public Washroom Offends s. 8.”

Lawyers Weekly 6(3) (1986): 11.

“MPPs Endorse Homosexual-Rights Bill.” Globe and Mail, December 3, 1986,

pp. A1, A2.

Ontario. See also p. A5 for “How MPPs Cast Their Votes on

Homosexual-Rights Bill.”

Also see related article, “Homosexual-Rights Bill Becomes Law,”

Globe and Mail, December 17, 1986, p. A4.

Nadeau, Robert D.

Brief of the Evangelical Fellowship of Canada on Homosexual Legislation:

An Evangelical Response. [Ontario: The Fellowship, 1986].

(ca. 32 leaves)

Ref.: OCLC catalog record, accession no. 46730301

“Sexual Orientation as a Prohibited Ground of Discrimination: Brief Submitted

to the Standing Committee on Administration of Justice, Ontario Legislative

Assembly, in regard to Bill 7, An Act to Amend Certain Ontario Statutes

to Conform to Section 15 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.”

1986.

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