The Royal Canadian Mint unveiled a commemorative loonie Tuesday to mark what it called a key milestone for lesbian, gay, transgender, queer and two-spirited people, with the government saying the coin symbolized progress while highlighting the work that still needs to be done to advance equality.
Federal Finance Minister Bill Morneau was amongst a number of dignitaries who gathered in Toronto to unveil the new one-dollar coin that pays tribute to Parliament's passing of legislation that "initiated the decriminalization of homosexuality in Canada" in 1969.
The coin, which is now in circulation, combines the words "Equality-Egalite" with the work of Vancouver-based artist Joe Average. "For too long, people didn't listen. They didn't extend compassion or empathy or understanding," Morneau said. "Because of that, years ago, people made it a crime to love in Canada. We made being yourself a punishable offence."
York University historian Tom Hooper, who is part of the group, says LGTBTQ people faced continued criminalization over the decades that followed the legal changes.
He said discrimination against LGBTQ people persists today, noting as examples that trans and queer people of colour still face issues with policing and people with HIV remain subject to criminalization.
The mint "could have consulted people who have knowledge of this history but they didn't," Hooper said, adding he hopes the agency will do so in the future.
He acknowledged no campaign can compete with roughly three million coins but said the project is at least fuelling a public conversation about LGBTQ history.
Still, the ceremony carried an emotional significance for many, including Don Valley MP Rob Oliphant:
Parker Allen
Canada is actually a clown world. Stay away from here and save yourselves while you can.
I was thinking of carrying a black sharpie on me to write on any of these I come across. Besides the obvious FAG or AIDS what else could I write to deface and redpill any who receives said coin in circulation?
Can your queer coin self identify as a million dollars?
Colton Anderson
I used to think old stories of witches kidnapping and eating kids were fake. Now I’m not so sure anymore
Hudson Harris
I was also wondering if there is a way to permanently mark the coins with something
Hudson Gray
>when sodomy is a part of "being yourself"
David Richardson
You get a metal stamp set.
Noah Lewis
spooky
Cooper Sanchez
I think it's like the next stage of otherkin, but multiple "genders" can be sharing the body >We identify as Barney the Dinosaur, a black woman, and a yorkshire terrier, all sharing the body of a fat middle aged man
Brandon Powell
"two spirited"? What is this fresh scoop of pc BS?
Bentley Clark
>Homosexual, eunuch, freak, commie, and usurper coins TFW it's worthless in Utah!
I have a dremel and access to vending machines. Same energy you get from a sharpie and le based black woman $10 bill.
Lucas Reyes
Flag checks out. You have to go back.
Thomas Cruz
A black sharpie will run off metal, but so will an acrylic paint marker...
What you boys need to get are dremels, or a cheap engraver for 20 bucks. If you're going to deface currency ( which I don't recommend) the only way to permanently mark metal is to engrave it...
Side note I will be laughing my ass off when hundreds of loonies show up with "hiv-fag" engraved into them.
I'm honestly taken aback that we have coins commemorating ass fucking. But then again why am I surprised.
Tyler Powell
Dremel or sand paper and into the vending machine it goes.
Henry Wright
Remember frens, vandalizing money is a serious offence (if you're also committing the thought crime of not liking blacks or homos while you do it), so don't take pictures and be smart about where you use them.
Shit you guys are gonna make me convert to cash now lol. The possibilities are endless.
Gavin Walker
Saved to my Canada folder!
Juan Howard
>you are in the minority naaaah, even generously non-whites are like 2/5ths of the population, and that number is probably closer to 1/5th. It's enough that it will take a civil war to get you back in the corn fields where you belong, but nothing insurmountable.
Asher Taylor
Nice they've already done half the work. All you really need to do is paint the face green and enlarge the lips and eyes
No one is going to buy them, so the premium will be low. Looks like I found a better alternative for a gold source to smelt for my jewelry shop. (Only if they'll be cheaper than regular maple leafs)
Here's to celebrating sodomy and for drag queens to indoctrinating your children. CELEBRATE NOW BIGOT!
Kayden James
Every single day, I want to post "Please kill me" on Jow Forums.
Jordan Jones
Nuke this fucking shit skin country, these clowns really don't fucking realize that far too few people carry change, and the few that collect the queercoin for "Value" are either bbs or as usual, cucks. Holy shit what happened to us :( I'm sorry boys, true north middle east. On a side note, hopefully nobody actually buys this garbage, now that would be funny.
Transgendered quarter-ed dicks and five year-old pedophile five cent nickel?
Landon Gomez
I don't think they would possibly push it that far, but I've been wrong about the slippery slope. Towns now have gay rainbow crosswalks.
I could see TD going first with rainbow credit cards. They are the faggiest of faggot-loving banks.
Ryan Cruz
I will see how many I can fit underneath my foreskin.
William Wright
I've never bothered checking, but I wouldn't be surprised if banks already offered homo cards. I'm just awaiting the day when you're forced to get a fag card. >Sir, I would like to get a credit card with an alternative design. >We've discontinued those, and by not wanting our LGBT cards, are you suggesting that you are a bigot?
Aaron Sanders
I think at that point I would happily tell the bank to close my account and I'd go with some other CC provider. Fucking canadian tire if I have to.
Ethan Brooks
Stamp fag on them
Luke Allen
A Canadian civil war would be fucking based.
Federalists, vs Québécois separatists & Western Secessionists. If Western forces could gain control of Cold Lake that would give us air superiority over Alberta & Saskatchewan as well as the North West Territories. NDN's could fight the Feds too, also American as well as Chicom fifth columnist elements would also be involved.
The West is yet to rise, shut off the gas and food to the east, watch me freeze and starve.
Eventually we can kick all of the coolies and the Achmeds out. Put Refugees in chains and force them to break rocks.
Are you familiar with the great works of Edmund Ruffin?
