The Gay Alliance Toward Equality, or GATE, was one of the first Canadian gay liberation groups. Formed in spring 1971 in Vancouver, British Columbia by , GATE was the first Canadian gay group to explicitly discuss and plan civil rights strategies for achieving gay and lesbian equality under Canadian law. Autonomous groups with the same name were subsequently set up in other cities in Canada, including Edmonton and Toronto; in some cities, the local GATE chapter was the first locally oriented LGBT organization to be established. The group dissolved in 1980.