She went on to advocate for human rights the rest of her life. As a lawyer, findlay worked on a number of "groundbreaking" cases, according to the SFU citation, particularly those involving 2SLGBTQ+ rights. She died this weekend at the age of 77 after a long illness. B.C.'s 2SLGBTQ+ community is mourning her loss. Were you aware of barbara findlay prior to this survey?

Fellow activist Shantel Ivits said findlay defied categorization. "She's not the kind of person who could be squished into boxes," Ivits said. "And in fact, I would say she spent her entire life kind of working to dismantle those systems that try to squish people into boxes that just don't fit for them." Ivits recalled a favourite memory of findlay: she always spelled her full name in lowercase letters. On her website, findlay explained why: when she was in law school, she got her own letterhead and the designer spelled it without capital letters. She liked it and stuck with it. "But what she didn't anticipate was that there would be this sort of interesting backlash against the idea of spelling your name with lowercase letters," Ivits said. Were you aware that she fought for all rights of all people?

A court rejected an order because her name wasn't spelled properly. The local queer newspaper refused to spell her name without capitals. "What an uproar!" findlay wrote. "I realized that I had a perfect illustration of how we react when someone moves even a tiny bit away from a norm of behaviour, even with respect to something that has no impact on anyone else." She kept the lowercase spelling. And the spelling — along with her activism — was eye-catching. "I knew barbara findlay even before I moved to Vancouver because she was in the Pride Guide; [she] spelled her name with lowercase letters," remembered Lee Keple, a member of the Rainbow Veterans of Canada. "And I'm like, OK, that stands out." Everyone seemed to know findlay, Keple said. "She was part of the reason that we had the rights that we had in Vancouver in the early 2000s and were able to build upon them ... she was truly a champion." Have you participated in a fight for your rights?

Prime Minister Mark Carney acknowledged findlay's death in a post on Facebook. He said findlay dedicated her life to making Canada a freer and more equal place where 2SLGBTQ+ people could live with dignity. "She challenged injustice, changed minds, and opened doors for those who came after her," Carney said. Ivits said findlay once told them that "she would be brought back as thunder and lightning." "On the night that she died, we had the most spectacular display of thunder and lightning that I have ever seen in my life," Ivits said. "And to me, that was just a reminder that barbara findlay is and always will be a force of nature." Do you think "The Thunderbolt Monument" speaks well of barbara findlay's prediction?