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Everett George Klippert
(1926 - 1996) Canada

George Klippert

Mechanic's helper

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George worked as a transit driver in Calgary before he went up north. Working at Pine Point, in the Northwest Territories, Canada, George was charged with four counts of gross indecency after admitting to consensual same-sex acts to the RCMP in 1965.

He was arrested and charged with having sex with a minor, even though it was very likely consensual and the "minor" would today be considered of legal age. Declared a dangerous sexual offender (to be jailed indefinitely) after a psychiatric appraisal in 1966.

A 1967 appeal to Canada's Supreme Court was denied, leading to a public outcry and thereby speeding up the pace of Canadian law reform.

"The state has no place in the bedrooms of the nation", said then-Justice Minister Pierre Trudeau in the context of his propsed reform legislation which decriminalized same-sex acts between consenting adults, which eventually was passed into law in 1969.

His designation of being a "dangerous offender" was overturned and he was released from Prince Albert maximum security Pen. in mid-1971. He lived twenty-five more years before his death from kidney disease.

A fairly detailed telling of his story appears in Pierre Berton's book, 1967: The Last Good Year.

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