1. The Disability Rights & LGBT Movement
(Engel, 2001) In Canada however the LGBT movement was making substantial progress as early as the 1970's by employing legal tactics to gain awareness, furthermore, the 1982 Charter of Rights and Freedoms created many more opportunities to raise awareness and around this time is when the movement put Canada in the lead when compared to the United States and Britain in terms of its accomplishments regarding LGBT rights. ... Miriam Smith writes in her LGBT rights study, "influenced by the American civil rights movement, the Canadian movement used the language of equality in a broad way to de...
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