Remaining Vigilant - barbara findlay KC and Douglas Elliott
Episode description
Trail-blazing penny droppers. Julia welcomes two iconic figures from within the CBA and the legal profession: barbara findlay KC and Douglas Elliott. Gay lawyers from when there were no gay lawyers. They co-founded SOGIC, now SAGDA, and are partly responsible for many of the rights the 2SLGBTQIA+ community has achieved over the last forty years. To quote barbara: "what was gained in a generation could easily be lost in a generation". And Douglas wrote: "we are experiencing a terrible backlash right now where the very concept of human rights is under attack and ‘DEI” is under sustained attack." Following their lead, we are Remaining Vigilant.
Cases discussed in this episode:
2003 BCSC 1936 (CanLII) | Vancouver Rape Relief Society v. Nixon et al. | CanLII
1995 CanLII 98 (SCC) | Egan v. Canada | CanLII
1998 CanLII 816 (SCC) | Vriend v. Alberta | CanLII
1999 CanLII 686 (SCC) | M. v. H. | CanLII
2004 SCC 79 (CanLII) | Reference re Same-Sex Marriage | CanLII
2007 SCC 10 (CanLII) | Canada (Attorney General) v. Hislop | CanLII