Identity area
Type of entity
Corporate body
Authorized form of name
Society for Political Action for Gay People
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Description area
Dates of existence
1978- 1982
History
The Society for Political Action for Gay People (SPAG), also formerly known as The Society for Political Action for Gays, was an organized gay civil rights group established on October 1978 in Vancouver, British Columbia. Since 1981, SPAG worked with the British Columbia Human Rights Commission to get sexual orientation into the Human Rights Code, lobbied for changes in the Federal Human Rights Act and the Criminal Code. They also worked with other organizations to help build the Vancouver gay community and became registered under the British Columbia Societies Act. SPAG dissolved on December 31st, 1982.