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In the late fall of 1991 and the winter of 1992, Blain's health began to decline due to complications from AIDS; he missed several city council meetings, including the passage of the city's 1992 budget. He died of AIDS-related complications on May 5, 1992, at age 41. Just days before his death, the
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with over 50 per cent of the vote in his ward. He called his 1990 victory a special moment for the city's gay community, because it illustrated that voters who had opposed him in 1986 because of his sexual orientation were beginning to consider it a non-issue.
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for people living with HIV and AIDS in the city, and lobbied for the city to provide spousal benefits to same-sex partners of city employees. He also spoke out in favour of greater tolerance of LGBT people after the 1989 murder of
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from 1986 to 1992. He called himself the first openly gay politician elected to public office in Quebec, although he was later confirmed to have been preceded by at least one other figure —
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city passed the same-sex spousal benefits policy he had long campaigned for. A memorial church service was held in his honour at the city's Église Sainte-Brigide-de-Kildare on May 8.
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party in the Saint-Jacques district, which included the city's
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