FOUNDATION FOR EQUAL FAMILIES (gay/lesbian rights group; Toronto)
It's going to be a long, bumpy ride [in which author comments on various gay
community issues, including Foundation for Equal Families (gay/lesbian
rights group) announcement of lawsuit against federal government to force
legislative amendments and the attacks that will result from the radical religious
right; how few in community benefit from victories; how many in community
are in penal institutions because they can't deal with their sexual orientation;
true equality "will only come when individuals have access to support that
confirms that they are valuable human beings..."; etc.].
By Gens Hellquist.
P126 (v17n1)(Jan. 27, 1999): 4-5 (61cm.)
No threat to "the family" [in which author mentions suit by Foundation for Equal
Families against federal government to force rewrite of 58 laws that
discriminate against gays; argues that this is not, as some claim, a threat
to the "family," but that pressures on families come from broader issues, such
as need of both parents to work; "both the expansion of human rights to include
gays and the decline of the nuclear family are effects of a larger process";
creating a just society in which gay and lesbian couples are treated like
heterosexual ones is no threat to "family"; etc.]. By Nils Clausson.
P126 (v17n1)(Jan. 27, 1999): 7 (40cm.)
Suing the feds [Foundation for Equal Families "have announced that they will launch
an 'omnibus' lawsuit against the government if they don't act soon";
Foundation wants changes to 58 laws which discriminate against same-gender
couples; details, reactions].
P126 (v17n1)(Jan. 27, 1999): 23 (35cm.)
EGALE postcard campaign [newsnote that, in response to Reform Party's success in
legislating marriage definition to be union of man and woman, EGALE and
Foundation for Equal Families have begun massive postcard campaign
calling on federal government to recognize same-sex couples in all federal
laws].
P130 (v17n5)(July 28, 1999): 25 (16cm.)