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Douglas Wilson (activist)

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228:'s gay organization (Gays and Lesbians at the U of S, GLUS) established the Doug Wilson Award, given annually to honour those individuals who have shown leadership and courage in advancing the rights of gays & lesbians at the University of Saskatchewan. The University of Saskatchewan Students' Union (USSU) has presented the award since 2001, after GLUS folded following the establishment of the USSU-run Pride Centre. 157:. The university's dean of the College of Education refused to allow Wilson into the school system to supervise practice teachers because of his public involvement with the gay liberation movement. Wilson was vice-president of the Gay Community Centre Saskatoon and had been trying to start a gay academic union at the university. The 635: 640: 357: 506: 361: 625: 353: 680: 675: 620: 172:. He served as executive director of the Saskatchewan Association on Human Rights from 1978 to 1983. In 1983 Wilson moved to Toronto to work for the 650: 610: 615: 234:, a film about Doug Wilson, was screened in venues across Saskatchewan in March 2009. It was directed by Saskatchewan filmmaker David Geiss. 168:, a small publishing house dedicated to works by Canadian lesbians and gay men. The company's first title was Wilson's own poetry collection 655: 158: 630: 670: 600: 480: 329: 185:
Wilson was the first openly gay candidate to be nominated by a major political party to stand for Parliament, as a candidate of the
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and founding chairperson of the Canadian Network of Organizations for People Living With AIDS. Wilson published his partner
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as an advisor to the Race Relations and Equal Opportunity Office. In 1984 he became one of the founding publishers of
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Wilson spent most of his life fighting for human rights issues, activism and AIDS organizations. In 1977 he founded
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culture and history in Canada, a portrait of Wilson by artist Alfred Ng is held in
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Making a scene : lesbians and community across Canada, 1964-84
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New Democratic Party candidates for the Canadian House of Commons
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failed to protect Wilson and his case was unsuccessful.
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Events in the History of the University of Saskatchewan
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Index

Meadow Lake, Saskatchewan
Toronto
Ontario
AIDS
pneumonia
University of Saskatchewan
Stubblejumper Press
Toronto Board of Education
New Democratic Party
Gay activism
Peter McGehee
Saskatchewan
University of Saskatchewan
Saskatchewan Human Rights Commission
Stubblejumper Press
Toronto Board of Education
Rites: for lesbian and gay liberation
New Democratic Party
Rosedale
1988 election
AIDS
AIDS Action Now!
Peter McGehee
University of Saskatchewan
LGBT
The ArQuives: Canada's LGBTQ2+ Archives
"A case study in the gay prairie experience"
University of Saskatchewan
"Wilson, Douglas (1950–93)"
University of Regina

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