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enewsletter
December 24 2011
Dear Indies Community,
I hope this holiday season is filled with great joy and celebration for all of you. I am very thankful for 2011 - it has been quite a wonderful year - filled with lots of great art and opportunities.
As we have seen a great deal of LGBT teenage bullying and suicide, I do want to encourage anyone who is involved with GSAs or youth work or simply concerned with the well-being of LGBT youth to consider donating this following series to a local school, library or community center. This series is a great educational tool to help youth and adults alike. Please take a moment to read on.
Thank you all and wishing you the very best for 2012,
Gurbeen - Director, NATI
From Criminality to Equality (4 disk DVD series on lesbian and gay movement history in Canada)
RATED NNNNN "Must Have" Critic's pick NOW Magazine
 "Individually, these films by Nancy Nicol are brilliant social documentaries, dramatically structured, thoroughly researched and rich in detailed interviews and footage of key players and events. Together, they make a first-rate history of the 40-year fight for gay rights in Canada and, not incidentally, provide many useful lessons in social organizing". Andrew Dowler, Now Magazine, June 25-July 1, 2009.
For info or to purchase on-line go to: nightattheindies.com/merchandise
Letter Of Endorsement
From Criminality to Equality is a collection of four feature films that provide an in-depth history of the lesbian and gay movement in Canada from the decriminalization of homosexuality in 1969 to 2009. The films include: Stand Together (124 minutes), the Queer Nineties (90 minutes), Politics of the Heart (68 minutes) and The End of Second Class (90 minutes). Included in the series are a study guide and interview with the director, Nancy Nicol. These award-winning films have screened internationally to audience acclaim. The DVDs are professionally authored and pressed from the digibeta masters.
Ten years in the making, this series makes an important contribution to the growing scholarship on lesbian and gay history and politics. Nicol has crafted a work of national scope, assembling rarely seen visual documentation and moving interviews with grassroots activists, community leaders, legal experts, and litigants in key cases from across Canada. The work illuminates a process of history-in-the-making across a timeline during which the status of lesbians and gay men in Canada evolved from criminality to recognition of human and civil rights, relationship recognition and parenting rights for same-sex couples, and same-sex marriage. On August 28, 1971, marking the second anniversary of the decriminalization of homosexual acts in Canada, the first demonstration by lesbians and gay men in Canadian history read a list of ten demands on the steps of the parliament in Ottawa, calling for social and human rights. Forty years on, those demands have been largely achieved.
From Criminality to Equality brings to life a transformative social movement, from the first gay liberation groups to the building up of a diverse social movement; from the first human rights cases in the 1970s, the impact of the passage of the Charter of Rights in 1983 to the passage of same-sex marriage legislation in 2005. The films provide an important resource for educators, public libraries and non-profit community groups; of particular relevance to studies in history, social sciences, human rights, sexuality studies, women’s studies, social justice and law and society.
We the undersigned, wish to highly recommend the addition of From Criminality to Equality to your collection.
James Chamberlain, educator and activist, litigant in case against the Surrey School Board ban of books about same gender families, GALE-BC member, anti-homophobia/transphobia program coordinator, B.C. Teachers' Federation.
Douglas Elliott, (Roy Elliott O'Connor LLP) lawyer for the Foundation for Equal Families in M. v H., lawyer for MCCT in same-sex marriage case and lawyer for same-sex survivors in CPP case, Hislop v Canada.
barbara findlay, Q.C., lawyer focusing on LGBT issues including getting lesbian co-moms on their child's birth certificate, lawyer for BC same-sex marriage litigants, December 9 Coalition, founding member of AWARE Alliance of Woman Against Racism Etc; lawyer for Kimberly Nixon; member of Canadian Bar Association and Law Society of BC's equality committees.
Susan Gapka, Founding member and Chair of the Trans Health Lobby Group, a committee of the Rainbow Health Network.
Mona Greenbaum, founder of the Lesbian Mothers Association of Quebec, director, LGBT Family Coalition / Coalition des familles homoparentales.
Fred Hahn, Secretary-Treasurer Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE), Ontario Division.
Gareth Henry, former director of the Jamaica Forum for Lesbians, All-Sexuals and Gays (J-FLAG), International Grand Marshal, Toronto Pride 2008, currently Program Supervisor, Community Services, 519 Church Street Community Centre, Toronto.
Dr. Alan Li, Founder of Hong Kong 10% Club, the first registered gay organization in Hong Kong, past chair of Gay Asians Toronto, Asian Community AIDS Services, co-chair of Committee for Accessible AIDS Treatment.
Susan Ursel, (Green & Chercover) human rights lawyer, Lobby Chair of the Campaign for Equal Families (1994) and a founding director of the Foundation for Equal Families.
Tom Warner, founding member of the Coalition for Lesbian and Gay Rights in Ontario, co-chair of the Campaign for Equal Families (1994), Ontario Human Rights Commissioner (1993-96), author of "Never Going Back: A History of Queer Activism in Canada".
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