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Dublin Core
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Title
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LGBTQ+ Oral Histories
Description
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A selection of oral histories from The ArQuives collections.
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1970-2005
Format
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Cassette tapes, digital video
Language
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English
Contributor
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LGBTQ Oral History Digital Collaboratory (Elspeth Brown, PI)
Canadian Lesbian and Gay Archives
Hyperlink
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Interviewer
The person(s) performing the interview
Brown, Elspeth
Interviewee
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Lee Kam, Lezlie
Location
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Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Original Format
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moving image
Duration
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1 hr 20 minutes (PT 1)
URL
<iframe src="https://player.vimeo.com/video/253802550" frameborder="0" width="640" height="360"></iframe>
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Title
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Oral History with Lezlie Lee Kam, PT 1 (27 April, 2017)
Creator
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Brown, Elspeth;
Lee Kam, Lezlie
Publisher
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Canadian Lesbian and Gay Archives
Date
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1970s-1980s
Contributor
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Lee Kam, Lezlie
Brown, Elspeth
Rights
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CLGA
Format
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mp4
Language
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English
Type
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video
Subject
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dyke; lesbian; black power; Carib; Callaloo; world majority; activism; LOOT; Lesbian Organization of Toronto; Carnaval; Mas; migration; immigration; racism; Caribbean-Canadian; Trinidad; butch fem; lesbian separatism; Michigan Womyn's Music Festival; transphobia; coming out; Catholicism; York University; 1970s
Description
An account of the resource
This is the first of two oral histories with Lezlie Lee Kam, a 55+, gender-mysterious, world majority person and dyke; a Trini; a Carib; Brown; and a Callaloo-a mix of Chinese, Carib, Indian, Portuguese, and Venezuelan. She was born in Trinidad and left for Toronto in 1970. In this interview, Lezlie discusses her childhood in Trinidad with her 3 brothers with her working-class father and her more well-off mom; at age 11, when she was beginning her education in a convent school, her parents separated. Lezlie stayed with her father and 3 brothers, while her mother moved to Toronto in 1968. Lezlie was involved with Mas, as was her dad, who was a band leader; she's continued to be involved with Carnaval since. When Lezlie was 16, she moved to Toronto to be with her mother in Toronto, despite not wanting to leave. Discusses her attraction to girls from a young age, while also at the same time dating boys. Two of her brothers emigrated in 1976; she describes the debates she had with her mother around her mother's expectations that she do gendered labour in the household, while her brothers did nothing.
Lezlie was only one of four non-white kids in high school in 1970: she describes racism, being called a 'monkey' by the boys, and her (humorous) response, her accent, and her efforts to modulate it once in Canada. Lezlie came out, to herself, while she was at York U 1972-1976. She discusses radical student politics at York, and the expectation that all non-whites sit at the 'black table' in solidarity with black power. She learned about Cuba, South American indigenous issues, and Caribbean literature.
Discusses her first relationship with a woman, Sonia, a mixed race Trinidadian who attended Ryerson, and the physical passion that ensued after figuring it all out for the first time; they were together for 3 years, when they were caught kissing, and Sonia's family shipped her back to Trinidad.
Lezlie describes her activism with LOOT, the Lesbian Organization of Toronto (LOOT), in the late 1970s. She worked at the coffee house, on the phones, and wanted to be a person of colour for other lesbians who looked like her. Describes her work at LOOT and encountering butch-fem roles and lesbian separatism in the contemporary scene. Race and racism was not a topic of discussion among the white LOOT activists. Discusses the transphobia she encountered at the Michigan Womyn's Musical Festival, as well as how very few other women of color were there.
Night life, late 1970s: describes the 4 women of colour in the scene, who went to The Studio, a bar where gay men and lesbians mixed. They stood out, and became disco queens; they checked out the Camu (sp?) on Trinity, near Eastern. The Camu was a working class butch-fem bar, with tuxedos and ball gowns, the whole thing; they were the only people of colour. Discusses her own sense of gender then, and more recently. She was never butch or fem herself.
This interview continues in a second interview on June 16, 2017.
butch fem
Callaloo
Carib
Caribbean
Carnaval
coming out
dyke
immigration
lesbian
Lesbian Organization of Toronto
lesbian separatism
LOOT
Mas
Michigan Womyn's Music Festival
migration
oral history
racism
Toronto
transphobia
Trinidad
York University
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Title
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Not a Place on the Map: The Desh Pardesh Project
Subject
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diaspora, artists, South Asian, people of colour, festivals, identity, racism
Description
An account of the resource
Toronto’s Desh Pardesh festival (1988–2001) was a multidisciplinary arts festival that showcased underrepresented and marginalized voices within the South Asian diaspora. These oral history interviews with artists and organizers involved in the festival were created by the South Asian Visual Arts Centre in 2016.
Creator
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South Asian Visual Arts Centre
Date
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2016
Rights
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South Asian Visual Arts Centre
Relation
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CLGA holds additional records related to Desh Pardesh and Khush
Format
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PDF, WAV
Language
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English
Type
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Sound
Identifier
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Add CLGA accession # once donated
Coverage
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1988–2001, Toronto, South Asia
Contributor
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LGBTQ Oral HIstory Digital Collaboratory, SAVAC
Hyperlink
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URL
<iframe src="https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/325282645&color=%23ff5500&inverse=false&auto_play=false&show_user=true" frameborder="no" scrolling="no" width="100%" height="20"></iframe>
Dublin Core
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Title
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Oral History with Leila Sujir (2014)
Subject
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Identity Politics, Desh Pardesh, Oral History, Immigration, India Hearts Beat, Leile Sujir, arts festival, Dreams of a Night Cleaner, Quebec
Description
An account of the resource
Leila Sujir is an artist that first worked at Desh Pardesh in the late 1980s. Her work India Hearts Beat screened in Toronto, and she was invited to discuss it. She felt that Desh was a space of both validation and contention. She argues it gave emerging artists a space to present their work and gave a sense of importance to it, which was difficult in the racialized landscape of 1980s Toronto. Sujir also cites that the cultural context of Desh presented an overarching identity politics that concerned the population of Toronto. She felt that there was contention between groups, there was a competition of oppression and the rise of an “identity minefield”. Sujir also discusses her work Dreams of a Night Cleaner to conceptualize how physicality and space was a major component of her artistic work. She concludes the interview by discussing the erasure of oppression in her home province, Quebec and discusses briefly a new project in the UK.
Creator
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South Asian Visual Arts Centre (SAVAC)
Date
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2014-11-28
Contributor
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Anna Malla
LGBTQ Oral History DIgital Collaboratory (Elspeth Brown, PI)
Rights
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Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License
Format
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PDF, WAV
Language
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English
Type
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Sound, Text
Coverage
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1980s Toronto, 2000s Quebec
Desh Pardesh
diaspora
Dreams of the Night Cleaners
Identity politics
immigration
memory
oral history
racism
Rosemary Brown
SAVAC
South Asian
South Asian Visual Arts Centre
Tony Morrison
Toronto