Gais de l’Outaouais (GO), qui est devenu ALGO puis ALGBO, le nom reflétant les réalités changeantes de la diversité de la communauté, a connu une histoire de près de 25 ans, entre 1971 et 1995, en tant qu’organisation politique, sociale et de…

Everett George Klippert fut la dernière personne à être emprisonnée pour son homosexualité au Canada. En 1960, il est condamné à quatre ans de prison pour dix-huit chefs d’accusation de « grossière indécence ». Il est de nouveau arrêté en 1965,…

Le 15 février 2006, Diane Holmes, alors conseillère municipale, a organisé une réunion publique adressée à la communauté LGBT afin de recueillir leurs commentaires sur la réfection de la rue Bank. La réunion, à laquelle ont assisté une centaine de…

For the first part of this series on the Lesbian and Feminist movements, click here. Marie Robertson, along with Rose Stanton and others such as Candis Graham, forms a separate organization called Lesbians of Ottawa Now (LOON) in June 1976,…

Ottawa gets it's first Pride event in 1986, when a small group of roughly 50 people gather in Strathcona Park for a picnic. Gabriella Goliger recalls going to the picnic, which had many colourful balloons with lesbian and gay gender symbols drawn on…

The history of the lesbian community in Ottawa begins well before the modern queer liberation and feminist movements that started in the early seventies.Gay women were left with even fewer options to meet each other than gay men who had at least had…

1982 sees the first cases of HIV in Ottawa. On August 24, 1982, over seventy people attend a Gays of Ottawa talk on ‘gay cancers’. In August 1983, Peter Evans comes out as Ottawa’s first AIDS patient. Evans participates briefly in the first AIDS…

On February 15, 2006, then city councillor Diane Holmes hosted a town hall meeting for the LGBT community seeking input from the community regarding the reconstruction of Bank Street. The meeting, with approximately 100 in attendance, makes clear…