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Stubblejumper

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Stubblejumperis a compelling docudrama on the life and work of Doug Wilson, an early pioneer in the fight for LGBT rights in Canada. In the fall of 1975, while an Education student at the University of Saskatchewan, Doug Wilson placed an ad in the campus newspaper, seeking to start a gay academic union at the University. The Dean of Education took swift action, prohibiting an 'avowed homosexual' from supervising student teachers. Wilson took his case to the Saskatchewan Human Rights Commission but the University was successful in preventing an investigation.

Wilson's personal human rights battle shaped the future direction of his life, taking him from Saskatchewan to Toronto in the early 1980s with his partner, writer Peter McGehee, by his side. In 1988, Wilson became the first openly gay federal political candidate and the subsequent NDP candidate in the Toronto riding of Rosedale. During the campaign both he and McGehee were diagnosed with AIDS.

Stubblejumper paints a rich portrait of an intensely passionate and caring man whose life was consumed by activism, art, politics and a touching yet tragic love.

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