From fairley@io.org Fri Aug 4 13:54:22 1995 Received: from nudge.io.org (fairley@nudge.io.org [198.133.36.4]) by abacus.oxy.edu (8.6.10/8.6.11) with ESMTP id NAA27564 for ; Fri, 4 Aug 1995 13:53:52 -0700 Received: (from fairley@localhost) by nudge.io.org (8.6.9/8.6.9) id QAA13370; Fri, 4 Aug 1995 16:53:38 -0400 Date: Fri, 4 Aug 1995 16:53:36 -0400 (EDT) From: Paul Fairley To: Ron Buckmire Subject: Re: Paging LEGIT (Canada), SIG (United Kingdom) and LGITF , (Australia) In-Reply-To: <199508040759.AAA18384@abacus.oxy.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Content-Length: 1533 X-Lines: 42 Status: RO Hi! I am familiar with LEGIT -Toronto and will pass you message on. By the way, I am on the Board of Directors of The Campaign for Equal Families - Toronto, a non-profit group fighting to recognition of same-sex relationships. I was wondering if we could be listed on the QRD as well? We were born in the fight for Bill 167, legislaton which would have amended all Ontario laws that defined spouse as opposite-sex only. That bill was defeated last year, but we are currently: o lobbying the federal and provincial governements with a team of 30 individuals from the community o networking with other equality seeking groups to build a common front for equality rights o beginning an effort to catalogue and then lobby private-sector employers to permit lesbians and gays equal access to employment benefits. We're a busy group with almost 50 active volunteers, and many in the community treat us as a resource for information on relationship recognition issues. I've used the QRD myself and know that groups like EGALE are on, so I was wondering if we could work together as well. I'll talk to my Board on Tuesday (8 AUG), so if you could provide me with some general info and stats on the QRD before then, thatwould be a BIG help. I'll hope to hear from you soon. Thanks! =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Paul Fairley | fairley@io.org | Toronto, Ontario, Canada | (416) 926-0401 =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=