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Impact Of June Callwood On Society

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June Callwood is one of the greatest representatives of contemporary Canadian history and being considered that means that person has left an impressive impact affecting the lives of Canadians as we know it. Callwood's social contributions include her help to the homeless, women’s help, and the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer plus (LGBTQ) community. Her political impacts include her influence on the rights of women, her numerous foundings of organizations to support those in need, and providing society with information for change. Her journalistic achievements include her work in women’s rights, organizational change, and her journalistic inputs of founding many unions, leading the way for women writers, and providing society with brilliant, educating works. Without the lasting impression Callwood …show more content…

Nellie’s serves around eighty women per week providing them with a glimpse into a now possible bright future (Herstory). Callwood, progressive ideas, and actions have left a long-lasting impact on proper help to women and their rights even today. In the nineteen-seventies to eighties Auto Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) had become the onset of an epidemic, hurting too many in the gay community (Arato 59). With homosexuality still not being widely accepted, the cause and spread of this death sentence left many isolated and shamed by their loved ones, which left them completely alone (Arato 59). June wanted to create a comfortable place of care for those suffering from HIV/AIDS to die with respect. Callwood wrote books about these struggles to educate citizens such as Jim: A Life with AIDS and A Trial Without End: A Shocking Story of Women and AIDS; a true story of a Canadian man infected with aids, purposely not telling and therefore infecting twenty women. She created the first stand-alone HIV/AIDS hospice in the world called Casey House in 1988 (Arato 59). Casey House said the stigma was so strong, their, “first patient

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