GG awards Brewer

Allison Brewer is getting a Governor General’s award to honour her efforts in promoting equality for lesbians, gays, bisexuals and transgendered people.

Among her many activities, Brewer has organized the annual Pride and Friends of Pride picnic in Iqaluit for the last four years.

Brewer’s list of achievements includes over 30 years of volunteerism, freelance journalism, labour and pro-choice activism, and work to promote the equality and rights of girls and women in Nunavut. Brewer was a leading supporter of the Nunavut Human Rights Act that narrowly passed in November 2003.

The award commemorates the legal case that gave women in Canada the right to be considered “persons” (in 1929).