Lois Shawver's Testimony
on the Ban against Gays in the Canadian Military
In 1991 the Canadian military paid Lois Shawver a fee me to submit three essays to help them consider their legal defense for their policy of banning homosexuals from military service. The essays she submitted can be reached through
the links below. You will link first to a page of questions she was asked to answer in each essay and then to the
essay that answered them. These essays were influential in Canada's decision to drop its attempts to support this ban in court the following year.
