In May 2010 Egale Canada launched MyGSA. ca, a website focused on GSAs and their role in making Canadian schools safer and more LGBTQ inclusive.

Egale has over 3, 300 members including people in every province and territory of Canada.

Founded in 1986, Egale Canada was incorporated as a federal not-for-profit organization in 1995, with a focus on education, advocacy, litigation and expert consultation.

) Egale Canada's partner organization, Egale Canada Human Rights Trust ( ECHRT ), was founded in 1995 as a charity dedicated to advancing LGBT human rights through education, research and community engagement.

Egale intervened to support efforts to have LGBT pride officially proclaimed in many cities ; supported community initiatives in response to the Calgary bathhouse raids ; decried the heavy-handed censorship practices of Canada Customs and helped Little Sisters Bookstore win their court case.

In 2007 Egale commissioned a survey of 3700 high school students from across Canada in order to gain data on the situation of LGBT students in Canadian schools and gain insight into the level of homophobia and transphobia in schools.

In 2009, Egale Canada presented Jaime Watt, a political strategist in the government of former Premier of Ontario Mike Harris, with its inaugural Leadership Award in honour of his role in supporting the provincial law that granted common-law marriage rights to same-sex couples.

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Canadians for Equal Marriage is a Canadian public interest group representing Egale Canada, PFLAG Canada, the Canadian Federation of Students, the Canadian Labour Congress, the Canadian Psychological Association, the Canadian Association of University Teachers, and the Canadian Association of Social Workers, among others to promote the legalisation of same-sex marriage in Canada.

A prominent member of Egale Canada, she was one of its two representatives to the United Nations Conference on Women in 1995.

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to simply " Egale " ( égale being the French word for " equal ".

Egale successfully lobbied for the introduction and passage of Bill C-23, which amended 68 federal statutes to provide same-sex couples with the same legal status as that of opposite-sex married couples.

Egale has also supported freedom of speech for people with anti-gay points of view, including Albertan pastor Stephen Boissoin, who was found guilty by the Alberta Human Rights Commission of exposing gays to hatred.

Egale successfully lobbied the federal government to add “ sexual orientation ” to the Canadian Human Rights Act to protect lesbians, gays and bisexuals from discrimination ; lent support to many provincial and territorial efforts to have equal rights enshrined in legislation across the country ; lobbied the Government to introduce more severe penalties for those convicted of gay-bashing and other hate crimes ; supported the addition of “ sexual orientation ” to the grounds covered by hate propaganda legislation ; intervened in the Nixon case to support the rights of transgendered people.

Egale blamed the Conservative government for allegedly failing to help gay immigrants from countries that have anti-gay laws, such as Iran, Malaysia, Jordan, Mexico and Nicaragua.

The former executive director of Canada's national LGBT lobby group Egale, Gilles Marchildon, worked at Swerve for over four years and served as editor for three years.

Part of the ruling was financial compensation paid to Egale as requested by the complaintant Darren Lund ( who is not homosexual ), but Egale refused to accept the money.

asserted that Egale was devoting so much time and effort to advocacy around same-sex marriage that it was missing the boat on other important issues.

In 2007, responding to the suicide of an LGBT youth because of homophobic bullying, Egale created the Report Homophobic Violence, Period ( RHVP ) program in conjunction with the Toronto Police Service.

Egale has also supported a number of legal challenges involving the rights of youth in the education system, especially the case of Marc Hall who wanted to bring a same-sex date to his prom ; fought against the ban by the Surrey School Board of books depicting same-sex families.

Responding to data discovered in the report which indicates that schools with a Gay-straight alliance are seen and felt as being more supportive Egale created the mygsa. ca website.

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