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DESCRIPTION:This presentation by Constance Backhouse\,\nDistinguished Unive
 rsity Professor\, Faculty of Law\, University of\nOttawa.\nABSTRACT\nIn 19
 55\, Willimae Moore was charged with indecently\nassaulting a woman with w
 hom she worked in the typing pool\nof a government office in Yellowknife\,
  the capital of the Northwest\nTerritories.\nWillimae Moore's prosecution 
 appears to have been the first\nlesbian criminal trial in Canada. The sexu
 al overture\, an attempted\nkiss\, was almost laughably trifling in compar
 ison with the sexual\nacts of men typically accused of indecently assaulti
 ng women.\nHowever\, the apprehensions of the Cold War era played out in\n
 unusual ways in the sexually-charged environment of the far\nnorth.\nZealo
 usly prosecuted\, the case resulted in a conviction at\ntrial\, but divide
 d the appellate court\, which wrestled with the\nconcepts of coercion and 
 consent as they affected sexual assault\nvictims\, and how rules shaped fo
 r male assailants and female\nvictims should be applied in same-sex situat
 ions.\nAstonished legal authorities struggled with the definitions of\n'ho
 mosexuality' and 'lesbianism\,' as they sifted through the\nremarkable tes
 timony of the alleged victim\, the accused\, and\nWillimae Moore's illustr
 ious traveling companion\, Beatrice\nGonzales. The third woman in the tria
 ngle\, Beatrice Gonazles\norchestrated Willimae Moore's defence and jouste
 d with government\nmanagers\, the RCMP\, and lawyers as she insisted upon 
 the innocence\nof her friend.\nThe case provides an excellent venue for ex
 amining ways in which\nfemale sexuality was negotiated in the workplace\, 
 the plight of\nlesbians in Cold War culture\, and the role of the state in
 \nenforcing female heterosexual conformity through criminal law.\nCo-Hoste
 d by  the Patricia Allen Memorial Lecture\; the\nAnnie MacDonald Langstaff
  Workshop Series\; and the Sexual Assault\nLaw Seminar.\n \n
DTSTART:20101001T163000Z
DTEND:20101001T180000Z
LOCATION:Chancellor Day Hall\, CA\, QC\, Montreal\, H3A 1W9\, 3644 rue Peel
SUMMARY: Annie Macdonald Langstaff Workshop:  Canada’s First Same-Sex “Lesb
 ian” Sexual Assault Prosecution
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