Nancy Drolet, Canadian hockey player

b. August 2, 1973

Born in Drummondville, Quebe, Nancy Drolet is a Canadian ice hockey player, and was named Sport Federation Canada Junior Athlete of the Year in 1992. Also an accomplished softball player, she was a member of the Canadian National Softball team in 1990 and 1991, and furhtermore played for Team Quebec at the 1991 Canada Winter Games.

She came out publicly in 2002, and in 2009,married her long-time partner Nathalie Allaire in Quebec.

Poll: Australia leads Britain and US in support for equal marriage (PinkBananaWorld.com)

Australia is leading Britain and the US in its support for the implementation of equal gay marriage rights, a poll released today suggests.

An equal right for gay couples to marry had 49 percent support in Australia, 43 percent support in Britain and 42 percent support in the US, the Angus Reid Public Opinion survey found.

The survey also found that in Canada, where gay couples have been allowed to marry since 2005, a higher proportion of the public, 59 percent, were in favour of keeping that right in place.

The poll also found that 59 percent of Canadians, 53 percent of Australians and 49 percent of Britons believe people are born gay. 40 percent of Americans agreed.

Women across the four countries were more likely to back equal rights than men.

-Pink News

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George Herchmer Markland « The Drummer’s Revenge

b. 1790

d. May 17, 1862

George Herchmer Markland was the closest thing to royalty that existed in the Canadian colonies. Born in 1790 at Kingston, in what was still the Province of Quebec before it became Upper Canada, Markland grew up in ease and comfort, and was educated by the Family Compact’s patriarch himself, the Anglican Bishop John Strachan.

At 20, Markland was coming into elite society. The lawyer John Beverley Robinson – the same man who named Alexander Wood “the Inspector General of private Accounts” – said that Markland was, “a good fellow, and very friendly.”

Yet Markland made Robinson uneasy. The lawyer confessed, “I prefer seeing a person his age more manly and not quite so feminine in either speech or action.”

Markland was in training to be an priest, but changed his mind. In 1812, he went to war as an ensign in the Frontenac militia, defending Canada from American invasion. At some point he married, as all men of his class were expected to, but he and Anna Markland never had any children. In 1820, he went into politics. He ran in Kingston, but lost."

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