Today the Royal Canadian Mint released the “Fight for the Right to Love” Equality Coin into circulation which marks 50 years since the process of decriminalizing homosexual acts was initiated in Canada. ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜
Everett George Klippert was the last person in Canada to be arrested, charged, prosecuted, convicted, and imprisoned under the crime of ‘gross indecency’ (a law used to criminalize sexual activity between men).
He remained in prison until July 21, 1971.
In total, spending over 10 years in prison just for loving…
Today 70 UN member states still criminalize same-sex relations between two consenting adults and in 26 of those countries, the penalty varies from 10 years in prison to life.
This coin is an honour to all those who have unjustly struggled to love.
Love is Love
Mr. Fab
