Impact Of Lgbtq On Society

With the many years that have passed that was just one of the many achievements that the LGBTQ+ society has accomplished back then, the 1970s also had a large impact.

For the next decade, in the 1970s larger strides were accomplished by the LGBTQ+ society. To begin in 1971, the last homosexual to be arrested for acts of indecency was released from prison (Rau 2017). Although it is incredibly outrageous that people were being arrested for any homosexual acts, the release of Klippert was a sign of hope for the future that is yet to come. Since then any arrest of a person that identified as anything other than heterosexual was not arrested for any sexual actions with consent. During the 1970s people in the LGBTQ+ society and even those that supported,

In the year of 1977 Quebec lead the way with having the first jurisdiction to prohibit discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation (Hurley 2005). This law made stated that it is illegal to discriminate gay people from things that heterosexuals have the rights to such as housing, employment, and public accommodations. Quebec was only the first province to abide by this law but by 2001 almost all provinces would have put this ruling into place Although there are many people that were and still are homophobic, the prohibiting of any sexual orientation discrimination is huge so that it is official that people are allowed to be able to identify however they want to identify as. For some people even being able to identify how they want to impacts them greatly. In the same year, the ban on prohibiting gay men from immigrating into Canada was removed (Rau 2017). With Canada allowing a gay immigrant to enter the country, it shows even more of how far Canada has gone from their past. Before people were being arrested and even killed for showing any homosexual affection and in the 1970s they were letting gay immigrants into the country instead of pushing them away. It is amazing to see how much a country has developed in even a short amount of time like ten years. In ten years Canadians have gained the right to be openly

Within the decade, many changes that benefitted the LGBTQ+ society were made by the Supreme Court of Canada. Such as in 1998, they extended spousal benefits to same-sex partners of their employees and for same-sex spouses to be able to be allowed to sign up for pension plan registration (Hurley 2005). People with a different sexual orientation then what is known as the normal are still regular people, so for Canada to allow same-sex spouses to be able to apply for pension and work benefits is a large step in the right direction. During this time not everyone could get a job so if at least one person in the relationship had a job that had benefits then the couple would be covered no matter what their sexual orientation is. In 1995 Bill C-41 was created to not allow people to give out any unnecessary sentences based on a person’s personal characteristics including sexual orientation (Hurley 2005). Following that the parliament added to the Canadian Human Rights Act, adding sexual orientation (Hurley 2005). This meant that all Canadians have the right to choose whatever sexual orientation that they want. For some people, sexual orientation is a just another name to be called but for some, it has more of a meaning than just another name to be called. There had been many changes in laws throughout