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Rather than challenging men, as they get older, reconnect with ROBIN PERELLE Quebec’s population, still earned only marriage, for example, we demanded their straight family members — espe- eats 64 percent of their anglophone coun- our share of its sanctioned rights and cially if they fi nd themselves middle- @dailyxtra When Pierre Karl terparts’ salaries. responsibilities. aged and alone in a gay community Péladeau pumped his Carving spots in places of power was Nothing wrong with demanding that values youth above all else [“All facebook.com/dailyxtra newly anointed Parti Québécois fi st essential but not enough. Nurturing our due, whether it’s equal access to dailyxtra.com FREE 15,000 AUDITED in the Family,” Xtra #769, April 17]. CIRCULATION More at at More for sovereignty in March, he might as French Canadian culture and breath- education, jobs and decision mak- I’ve had that experience and so have well have been talking about sexual ing new life into its language became ing in Quebec or equal access to job some of my gay acquaintances. When That’s the issue in Canada. That’s liberation. paramount, especially as it became protection and spousal benefi ts in I came out, there were tensions with “what’s stopping” us — not shaming. Not that Péladeau has given any clear that francophones submerged in straight society. But is it enough? my straight family and I distanced Americans have FDA approval, CDC indication that he supports sexual English-speaking Canada outside Que- What happens when a cultural move- myself from them. As a young gay man, guidance and access, and they’re now liberation. But like sexual liberation, bec were rapidly losing their language. ment wins signifi cant gains without I plunged into the visible gay commu- in the privileged position of calling sovereignty is both the end game and Lévesque soon parted with the transforming the overall structure nity and made many gay friends for the each other names. I wish that were our potentially the greatest liability of a Liberals and launched the Parti that surrounds it? fi rst time. Several years later, most of problem! We don’t even have Health cultural movement that has earned Québécois, committed both to The latest incarnation of the Parti those gay friends have drifted away Canada approval or access yet. That’s enormous gains without managing strengthening Québécois language, Québécois shows what can happen (people change as they get older), and what you should be investigating and to ultimately dislodge the governing culture and independence within the when a movement that has made I now see the leftwing Toronto queer reporting on, not cutting and pasting social system. province and, ultimately, to creating a huge gains loses direction. How do establishment as a hostile, negative from news reports in the United States When the Parti Québécois stepped separate state no longer outnumbered you keep nurturing the culture you force. My beneficiaries are now my as if all you have to do to get PrEP in onto the political scene in 1968, it by anglophones in the rest of Canada. were created to protect once you’ve straight family members (who now this country is “call your doctor.” It’s was the product of profound social In the years since, the party has strengthened it enough to survive in accept me) and their children. not that easy here. Find out why not. upheaval. The Quiet Revolution made enormous gains within the a world where it’s still, nonetheless, a DAVID C Stop interviewing Americans and put was barely eight years old but had province: Québécois culture is strong minority? TORONTO, ON some Canadian public health offi cial’s already transformed a conservative, and pervasive; francophones are now Do you try to squash others to fur- feet to the fi re. Catholic Church–driven, anglophone- better educated and have access to ther strengthen your own position? PrEP IVAN dominated province into a more the highest-paying jobs; music, fi lms Do you keep pushing for transfor- I’m glad that Xtra is reporting on PrEP, TORONTO, ON modern, more egalitarian state with and even the most vacuous home- mational change in a world now pre- but this article defl ects attention from access to education and healthcare grown TV shows celebrate and refl ect pared to recognize your existence and the real issue in Canada [“If PrEP LGBT Youth Line and a reemerging sense of pride in be- Québécois realities. even, occasionally, to shift some of its is a Party Drug, Then Cue the DJ,” What a great service to have in place, as ing French Canadian. Yet as a direct result of these sig- norms to acknowledge your own? dailyxtra.com, April 29].