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'Jim Loves Jack' is a Canadian documentary film, released in 1996."Film fest heads downtown for a moving experience". 'Toronto Star', December 15, 1995. Directed by David Adkin, the film is a documentary about Jim Egan and John Norris "Jack" Nesbit,"Canada's pioneer gay activist subject of new TV documentary". 'Victoria Times-Colonist', January 6, 1996. a same-sex couple who were at the centre of the landmark Supreme Court of Canada case 'Egan v. Canada', which established sexual orientation as a prohibited basis of discrimination under the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. Egan also had a longer history as an activist, having been Canada's first prominent LGBT rights activist in the 1950s and 1960s before retreating into a quieter domestic life with the more publicity-averse Nesbit."Gay community has lost a hero ; James Egan started fighting for equal rights in the 1940s". 'Toronto Star', March 16, 2000.

The film had its theatrical premiere in Toronto on January 19, 1996. It was screened at various documentary and LGBT film festivals, and had television broadcasts on VisionTV and Knowledge Network.

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