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Jearld Moldenhauer is an activist and artist who participated in the August 1971 march We Demand at Ottawa's Parliament Hill, danced in straight bars, and staged kiss-ins and zaps. Moldenhauer formed Toronto Gay Action, proposed and created The…

John Greyson is an artist and filmmaker who teaches film at York University. Greyson has been making films, videos, installations, and artist books that deal with Queer Liberation since the early 1980s. Discusses how the queer movement and…

John Wilson has been involved in the Queer Liberation Movement since the 1970s and was at the first gay protest on Parliament Hill, a member of Toronto Gay Action, Gay Alliance Toward Equality, Gays and Lesbians Against the Right Everywhere,…

Ken Popert was the editor and publisher of Pink Triangle Press and identifies as a sexual libertarian. Popert cites internal anger and sectarianism as a threat to the movement and emphasizes the need for leadership and planning in any organized…

Kristin Wong-Tam is a Toronto city councillor, a cultural activist, and an art dealer. Wong-Tam credits queer youth with pushing issues that had not previously been raised, and also cites the importance of seniors who continue to be active in the…

Lali Mohamad is a community builder, particularly with African, Black, and Caribbean communities. Mohamad has been influenced by Black lesbians like Audrey Lord, Barbara Smith, and Pat Parker, and this has pushed him to consider the…

Loree Erickson is an artist, academic, activist, and community organizer who works primarily on disability and sexuality issues. Erickson's focus is on what she calls ‘queer crip porn’ - pornography made by and for other queer disabled folks -…

Marcel Grimard is a francophone queer. He critiques what have been termed respectable gays and their desire for normalizing conformity found within heteronormative couplings. Grimard cites the importance of intergenerationality within the Queer…

Marie Robertson is a therapist, community developer, and senior LGBT activist. Robertson critiques the desire for marriage equality with the desire to assimilate, and instead encourages young people to recognize the gains achieved by previous…

Miriam Smith is a professor of social sciences at York University. Trained as a political scientist, for the past twenty years Smith's scholarship centres on LGBT politics and documenting the history of the Gay Liberation Movement in Canada.…