The socio-legal standing of the LGBTQ+ population throughout Canadian history

The recent decades have witnessed the emergence of the LGBTQ+ Canadians within mainstream discourse. Significant legal reformation that are aimed to address the marginalized experience that have characterized their lives for a long time within Canada. This is accompanied by a greater celebration for the nuanced identities and diversity that the LGBTQ+ population brings to the broader Canadian society. Although, this modern queer phenomenon is a culmination of successful judicial case decisions that improved the legal statues of sexual and gender minorities. These legal victories were due in part by an increased awareness of the public to the vulnerability that the LGBTQ+ population is experiencing as a result of state sanctioned provisions and measures. The Canadian government through its justice system and actors upheld a “heteronormative hegemony” that brought irrevocable harm to the community which reverberates to the present as it shapes the dominant societal discourse regarding sexual and gender minorities. Therefore, the recent progress made by the Canadian state serves as an act of reparation to amend the damage they have enacted within the past. Albeit the measures taken fall short of responding to the shortcomings of the past as there are issues that persist which continue to marginalize and harm the community.