Talk:Timeline of LGBT history in Canada

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Is this notable?
Is the recent election of a provincial politician notable enough to warrant inclusion? The earliest ones in the country are worth listing, but it's 2020 and I really don't see a need to list the first LGBQT politician elected in each provincial and federal riding. Meters (talk) 06:31, 9 February 2020 (UTC)
 * Although I agree that "first to be elected in London, Ontario" is kind of overselling the historical significance of that distinction, there could be a different way to include him (alongside Jill Andrew) in the timeline. Federally, this list has tried to track more than just the first LGBT MP — there are, for example, entries for both the 2011 and 2015 federal elections which track the ongoing status of LGBT representation in Parliament by listing the "newly elected, reelected, defeated or retired" status of all the LGBT people who were in Parliament either before or after that election. And while it hasn't been done consistently at the provincial legislature level, there are some entries in this list which do the same thing for provincial representation as well. So while this list doesn't currently include every LGBT officeholder who has ever been elected to provincial or federal office yet, it does include more than just the very first in many cases.
 * To be fair, there have still really only been 40 out LGBT provincial legislators across all of Canada to date (as well as a further handful who weren't out during their terms in politics but then came out later on, which is not exactly the same thing) — so it's not like the numbers are so high that it has entirely ceased to be worth noting the elections of LGBT people at all anymore, but I would agree that there's a point at which you stop slicing the "it's a historic first!" pie smaller and smaller so you can keep doling out new pieces of that distinction. So there could very reasonably be an entry added for the 2018 provincial election, which names Terence Kernaghan and Jill Andrew as new LGBT MPPs — in fact, there really should be an entry in this list for that election anyway, because the end of Kathleen Wynne's premiership is a very important LGBT milestone to note — but it should just be worded more neutrally and less like a car salesman trying to oversell the actual value of the feature. Bearcat (talk) 12:31, 9 February 2020 (UTC)