11 10 3176 https://digitalexhibitions.arquives.ca/files/original/451604d5741ff5c874390f0bc96afeae.jpg af65279e5da11cc0e710b5f92b58990a Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Jovette Marchessault (1938-2012) Description An account of the resource Writer, playwright, sculptor and visual artist Jovette Marchessault is a self-educated daughter of a working-class Quebecois family. Jovette began her career as a sculptor, attracting international attention with her multimedia Earth Mothers series, exhibited in 25 solo exhibitions in North America and Europe. She followed this triumph with two novels; Like a Child of the Earth and Mother of the Gross (trans. Yvonne Klein). The publication in 1980 of Lesbian Triptych, her trio of radical works, caused a backlash in Quebec that threatened to jeopardize her literary reputation. Her many brilliant theatre plays include The Saga of the Wet Hens, which has been performed across Canada, and The Night Cow, which has been performed throughout North America. Jovette is currently completing a new play called Madame Blavetsky, Spirite. (1998 Induction Statement) Écrivaine, dramaturge, sculpteure et artiste visuelle. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Robert Laliberté Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Canadian Lesbian and Gay Archives Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1998 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Medium: black and white photographic print Dimensions: 15.5 x 23 cm (W x H) Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 148 https://digitalexhibitions.arquives.ca/files/original/3c2fe96ff746e6467838d49deb5b8a6b.jpg 28b9cbb03c7b2b465b047bb5001c4843 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Tim McCaskell (1951 - ) Description An account of the resource Tim McCaskell, who worked in Toronto schools doing anti-racism and anti-homophobia work with students for almost twenty years, is a long-time AIDS activist. In 1988, he was a founding member of AIDS Action Now (AAN), a group formed to raise the public's awareness of AIDS issues through highly public actions and campaigns. In a 1996 letter to AAN supporters, McCaskell explained why continued action was essential. He said: "We need to tell the government that Canadians are concerned about AIDS. We need to remind them that this epidemic is not over. We need to tell them that now, as new treatments become available and there is once again hope for a vaccine, it would be criminal to abandon our efforts and unnecessarily lose more lives to this scourge." (1998 Induction Statement) Membre du collectif qui publia Body Politic, membre du Comité pour le droit à la vie privée, fondateur de Simon Nkoli Anti-Apartheid Committee, cofondateur de AIDS ACTION NOW; il a travaillé dans les écoles secondaire de Toronto pendant une vingtaine d'années afin de combattre le racisme et l'homophobie dans le système scolaire. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Steven Dwayne Bryk Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Canadian Lesbian and Gay Archives Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1998 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Medium: digital image/print Dimensions: 18.5 x 28 cm (W x H) Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 152 https://digitalexhibitions.arquives.ca/files/original/a77c6876b729c2cd2133588c3f46204c.jpg db17db0154a9798bfae888ce0ae48ecf Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Mary Meigs (1917-2002) Description An account of the resource Mary Meigs was born in Philadelphia in 1917 and grew up in Washington, D.C. She obtained a B.A. from Bryn Mawr College in 1939, where she became an instructor in English and creative writing. As a writer, she is best known for The Medusa Head (which chronicled a stormy, three-way lesbian relationship involving herself, her long-time lover Marie Claire Blais, and an unidentified woman), Lily Briscoe: A Self Portrait and In the Company of Strangers, for which she won the QSPELL Award. In the Company of Strangers recounts her experience as a cast member in the National Film Board's production of the same-titled film; it is also a perceptive meditation on time and relationships written by someone who has known both. A visual artist as well as a writer, Ms. Meigs studied painting at the Art Students' League from 1945-47 and has had one-woman shows in Boston, New York, Paris and Montreal. She lived in Montreal, surrounded by the art which she has created and her garden, another of her passions. (2002 Induction Statement) Auteure de The Medusa Head, Lily Briscoe: A Self Portrait et de In the Company of Strangers; artiste qui s'est produite en solo à Boston, New York, Paris et Montréal. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Mary Meigs, self-portrait Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Canadian Lesbian and Gay Archives Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2002 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Medium: oil on canvas Dimensions: 43 x 63 cm (W x H) Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 091 https://digitalexhibitions.arquives.ca/files/original/f0f3ec797f53c8fb8a08b59035582a03.jpg 5c6d65b63fc3d4df2b5c9df2b4162bee Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Billy Merasty (1960- ) Description An account of the resource Manitoba-born actor and writer Billy Merasty comes from a distinguished line of First Nations artists. His uncles, the late ballet dancer Renee Highway and the writer Tomson Highway provided gay-positive role models for the young Two-Spirited man growing up in a homophobic small town in northern Manitoba. Merasty's involvement with Toronto's Native Earth Performing Arts Incorporated provided him with an artistic context in which he was accepted as a gay artist by other Aboriginal people. He is currently in the TV series Liberty Street and wrote the well-received play, Fireweed. Reflecting on his life, Merasty said, "I've always been open. Although a lot of people have told me not to be so gay if I want to be an actor, that it will limit me. I know that it has, but I'm not limiting myself, it's other people who limit me" (ICON February 1995). (1998 Induction Statement) Comédien et auteur. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Andrew McPhail Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Canadian Lesbian and Gay Archives Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1998 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Medium: pencil on mylar Dimensions: 27.5 x 42 cm (W x H) Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 151 https://digitalexhibitions.arquives.ca/files/original/1d28b8242e60c346a19089472db203db.jpg c1ee4dd03da25654b00a08357044b824 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Robin Metcalfe (1954- ) Description An account of the resource Robin Metcalfe is a Halifax-based curator, writer, poet and longtime gay and lesbian rights activist. From 1987 to 1992, he was involved in Lesbian and Gay Rights Nova Scotia, which successfully lobbied the Nova Scotia government for the explicit recognition of sexual orientation as a prohibited grounds for discrimination in the Nova Scotia Human Rights Act, the first provincial jurisdiction to do so. Robin Metcalfe gives our communities a somber challenge when he states: "We are cursed with short memories. We think that the relative freedoms we now take for granted have been long with us. They have not. The ice age was only a short time ago. If the political weather becomes a few degrees cooler, it may come back. Some of us have places to run to, back to the church, to our collars, to our closet. Some of us have no place to retreat to. We can only stand and fight" (Outrage, May 1985). (1998 Induction Statement) Conservateur d'art, auteur, poète et militant de longue date pour les droits des gais et des lesbiennes. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Storme Arden Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Canadian Lesbian and Gay Archives Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1998 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Medium: oil on canvas Dimensions: 28 x 40.5 cm (W x H) Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 087 https://digitalexhibitions.arquives.ca/files/original/4306e1d22d87ffc0b85dda4f24f1f4d5.jpg bfa49d9af27433f78b812be0d365d810 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Peter Millard (1932-2001) Description An account of the resource Peter Millard was an academic, an art writer, a collector and a champion of human rights. Born in Clevendon, Wales, Peter received his higher education at McGill and Oxford before accepting an appointment in the Department of English at the University of Saskatchewan in Saskatoon in 1962. He specialized in the literature and culture of the 18th century and was the author of many articles, papers and two books. Possessing "elegant manners, exquisite taste, and good politics", he was a man of diverse interests, an avid art collector and a fierce defender of the less fortunate and unfairly wronged. He studied and wrote widely about the visual arts, was a mentor to artists, a patron of the arts in Saskatoon, and a major donor to Prairie art galleries. He served his university in many ways, including chair of the Faculty Association, the Department of English, and the Art Committee, and don of residence. In all his positions, he exuded a rare combination of graciousness, wisdom, kindness and utter fearlessness. At his memorial it was noted his influence "was decisive in the cause of human rights across Canada". In the early 1970s he embraced the emerging gay community in Saskatoon, helped found the Gay Community Centre in the city, then the Gay Academic Union at the university, and taught its first course in gay and lesbian literature. He was a leader in most of the early battles to advance equal rights for gays and lesbians in the province, and president in 1980-1981 of the Saskatchewan Association on Human Rights. At the time of his death he was co-chair of the board of Saskatoon's Gay and Lesbian Health Services, an organization he had long supported. Peter Millard died in Saskatoon on 8 December 2001 after a short battle with a rare form of leukemia. (2003 Induction Statement) Universitaire, écrivain sur les arts, collectionneur, champion des droits de la personne en Saskatchewan, cofondateur du Centre communautaire gai de Saskatoon et de Gay Academic Union à l'Université de la Saskatchewan. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Lionel Trudel Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Canadian Lesbian and Gay Archives Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2003 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Medium: black and white photograph Dimensions: 26 x 36.5 cm (W x H) Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 055 https://digitalexhibitions.arquives.ca/files/original/4ea7789aa56f312946f2237ed3c0983a.jpg b3c6c3e8ed5f5cedcf45d3368ad84f86 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Bonte Minnema (1976- ) Description An account of the resource I'm a UofT Homecoming Queen, Chair & Co-founder of North America's first LGBTQ Scouting group (I was a Chief Scout in my day), Co-chair of the lesbian gay bi youth line, sometimes activist with various community/provincial/national groups & other times - just a happy go lovely gay boy... I'm a campy queeny uncompromising celebrational fairy. Effeminate homosexual women's studies student who believes power is distinctly fem. Its fun watching people (usually het) squirm when they try to figure out my gender. I tell them not to bother, haven't figured it out either. I'm really sick & tired of flamer bashing & gender typing... & being told I'm a stereotype. How many fem fag's organize urban campouts, know how to fix tractors & teach a social justice based Sunday school? Okay, so its probably not a stretch for superfags. That's what my Dutch cousins call me -Super Homo- like Popeye, I eat my spinach. Rural communities pride themselves on being 'all the same.' I might be able to fix tractors (amongst other butch farm chores) but I take pride in being different, it often exposes peoples' hypocrisies. Being all the same, particularly in a rural context, is really racist- so I'm still in exile. That's a mixed blessing, I can be who I am & I participate in lots of great social justice, anti-racist, queer-positive, woman-positive activism... and visit the country (with a car full of like-minded folk) every once in awhile.... I have to remember they have the right to be wrong, I just hope they know how that makes me & others feel. That will lead to change. "The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in times of great moral crisis, maintain their neutrality" Dante (1265-1321) (Bonte Minnema, Toronto, 2000 Induction Statement) Cofondateur de la première troupe gaie et lesbienne des Scouts du Canada. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Lise Beaudry Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Canadian Lesbian and Gay Archives Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2000 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Medium: colour photographic print Dimensions: 31 x 31 cm (W x H) Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 096 https://digitalexhibitions.arquives.ca/files/original/2fa904f5fe180b23f3412764ed2f0c9e.jpeg cbe54bd4f1d5e08e17b8afe7133e795e Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Jearld Moldenhauer (1946- ) Description An account of the resource Jearld Moldenhauer has been a key player in the creation of the gay movement in Canada. Over the years, he has participated in a multitude of activist organizations, such as the Body Politic, Community Homophile Association of Toronto, Toronto Gay Action, Gay Alliance Toward Equality, as well as being a founding member of the University of Toronto Homophile Association. From selling books and magazines out of his backpack to establishing the Glad Day Bookshop in 1970, Moldenhauer has fought for the accessibility of gay literature and has been a proud advocate for the freedom of speech. (2011 Induction Statement) Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Bruce Jones Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Canadian Lesbian and Gay Archives Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2011 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Medium: acrylic on rag paper Dimensions: 36.5 x 49.5 cm (W x H) Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 2011-108 https://digitalexhibitions.arquives.ca/files/original/c99792cee03da456f8d06817a17f3f44.jpg 62f4869ef9462a35a518454b2023d084 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Shani Mootoo (1957- ) Description An account of the resource Shani Mootoo is a visual artist, video-maker and writer who has skillfully found expression in a multitude of media. Her first published work, Out on Main Street, a collection of short stories and her luscious, imaginative first novel, Cereus Blooms at Night, were both received with enthusiastic acclaim. Exhibitions of her photo-based and painted images have travelled internationally. A Trinidadian-Canadian born in Ireland, Shani Mootoo complicates the interweavings of ethnic, gender and sexual identities in her work. Currently living in Vancouver, she is a contributing editor for CBC Radio's "This Morning" and is writing her second novel. (1998 Induction Statement) Artiste et écrivain. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Susan Stewart Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Canadian Lesbian and Gay Archives Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1998 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Medium: black and white photograph Dimensions: 21.5 x 29 cm (W x H) https://digitalexhibitions.arquives.ca/files/original/f3fad65f3379816bdd1bb73bf0c7a96f.jpg c17e693c130812d415a365d031564957 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Alex Munter (1968- ) Description An account of the resource As the first openly gay elected representative from the National Capital Region, Councillor Alex Munter has been a strong and articulate voice for fairness in Ottawa. Munter has won a reputation as a fighter for a fair and inclusive city, and is an advocate for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered people, along with all citizens and all communities. With the creation of the new "megacity" of Ottawa, Munter's commitment to social justice will be needed more than ever. (2000 Induction Statement) Conseiller municipal ouvertement gai à Ottawa. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Dave Smith Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Canadian Lesbian and Gay Archives Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2000 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Medium: black and white photographic print Dimensions: 24.5 x 32.5 cm (W x H) Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 069