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Quebec LGBTQ activist Laurent McCutcheon dies after long cancer battle
MONTREAL — Laurent McCutcheon, a leading figure in the fight for LGBTQ rights in Quebec, died Thursday after receiving medical assistance in dying, his spouse said on Friday.
McCutcheon had battled cancer since December 2016.
A prominent voice for gay rights for more than 35 years, McCutcheon had recently taken on a role as vice-president of l’Association quebecoise pour le droit de mourir dans la dignite — a group that advocates for the right to medically assisted death.
Born in 1942, McCutcheon, a civil servant, publicly committed himself in the early 1970s to the gay rights cause in Montreal following the 1969 Stonewall riots.