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Neil Richards (1949-2018)
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Neil has been involved with Saskatoon's lesbian and gay communities since the early 1970s. In 1975, Neil and others joined to form the Committee to Defend Doug Wilson. During this struggle, Neil enlisted the support of the University of Saskatchewan's Employees' Union (CUPE Local 1975), which led to a resolution being passed by the Saskatchewan Federation of Labour asking the government to ban discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation. Neil helped organize the 1976 convention of the National Gay Rights Coalition in Saskatoon, which was among the first significant gay rights gatherings in Canada.
In 1982, Neil took a leave of absence from his position in the University of Saskatchewan and worked as a volunteer with the Canadian Lesbian and Gay Archives in Toronto, an institution for which he has collected Saskatchewan material for over 25 years. That same year, Neil co-authored a library selection guide to lesbian and gay fiction, Out on the Shelves, which was published by the Canadian Library Association.
Neil worked on many of the earliest AIDS awareness initiatives in Saskatchewan. In 1990 he founded and organized Visual AIDS, a month long series of exhibitions, lectures, plays and public events. As well, he has staged three large exhibitions about AIDS at the University of Saskatchewan Library, and was the co-ordinator for Saskatchewan's Day Without Art project in 1992.
Neil's work in the community has not gone unrecognized. In 1991 he was honoured with the Dr. Stanley Stead Award by Saskatoon District Health for the Visual AIDS project. He received the first GALA (Gay and Lesbian Achievement) Award in 1993 for long term service to the lesbian and gay communities in Saskatoon. In 1995 he was the first recipient of the President's Service Award, which recognizes outstanding contributions to the learning and working environment at the University of Saskatchewan, and in 1998 he was the recipient of the Doug Wilson Award.
Neil's work has ensured that the history of our communities will not be lost or erased. (2000 Induction Statement)
Militant récipiendaire de plusieurs prix, engagé dans les communautés gaies et lesbiennes de Saskatoon depuis le début des années 1970; récipiendaire du Prix Doug-Wilson en 1998.
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Duncan Campbell (signed Marilyn Cooper, a pseudoym of Mr. Campbell)
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Canadian Lesbian and Gay Archives
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2000
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Medium: mixed media on board
Dimensions: 29 x 36 cm (W x H)
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2000-093
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Marie Robertson (1952- )
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Marie Robertson is an outspoken lipstick lesbian. A community activist since the early 70's, Marie has never been afraid to rock the boat and challenge both those within and outside the LGBT community. For many years, she was one of the few publicly-out lesbians within the gay liberation movement in Canada.
Marie was a founding member of the Hamilton McMaster Homophile Association and the Coalition for Lesbian and Gay Rights in Ontario. Over the years, she's added her strong voice and energy to many organizations - Waterloo Universities' Gay Liberation Movement, Gays of Ottawa, the Toronto Counselling Centre for Gays and Lesbians, the Lesbian Speakers' Bureau of Toronto, the AIDS Committee of Toronto and the Supporting Our Youth project at Central Toronto Youth Services.
In 1994, Marie was awarded the Canadian Lambda Award for Excellence in Human Rights. As one of the supporters for Marie's nomination put it, "As an educator, counsellor, advocate and role-model, her commitment to the lesbian and gay community is unwavering. Perhaps the most note-worthy aspect of this commitment, is the fact that Marie doesn't see it as unusual. It is simply part of her everyday life. Marie does more community outreach on a trip to the grocery store, than many do in a lifetime. She's proud of who she is and she shares that pride and strength with everyone she comes in contact with." (2002 Induction Statement)
Lesbienne BCBG très directe, fondatrice de Hamilton McMaster Homophile Association et de la Coalition ontarienne pour les droits des lesbiennes et des gais; a travaillé avec Waterloo Universities' Gay Liberation Movement, Gays of Ottawa / Gais de l'Outaouais, Toronto Counselling Centre for Gays and Lesbians, Lesbian Speakers' Bureau of Toronto et le Comité du sida de Toronto.
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Jake Peters
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Canadian Lesbian and Gay Archives
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2002
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Medium: black and white photographic print, silver gelatin-toned
Dimensions: 17 x 26 cm (W x H)
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2002-92
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Svend Robinson (1952- )
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Svend Robinson, politician and activist, has been one of the key figures of Canadian political life since his election as a New Democratic Party MP to the House of Commons in 1979. In 1988, he became the first MP to publicly declare that he was gay. No other Member of Parliament has made gay, lesbian and bisexual issues so clearly a part of his Parliamentary agenda. Robinson spearheaded the campaign for inclusion of sexual orientation in the Canadian Human Rights Act; fought to allow gays and lesbians to serve in the military; pressed the government for changes to pension legislation, the Immigration Act and the Criminal Code. He has stated that love is the essential ingredient in a successful MP. He defined love as encompassing "love and respect for the environment, love and respect for those who are dispossessed and powerless, and those who have traditionally been voiceless." (1998 Induction Statement)
Politicien fédéral ouvertement gai; premier député fédéral à dévoiler son homosexualité.
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Maurice Vellekoop
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Canadian Lesbian and Gay Archives
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1998
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Medium: watercolour
Dimensions: 27.5 x 42 cm (W x H)
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155
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Gerry Rogers (1956- )
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Gerry Rogers, is a person who gives from her heart as well as her mind. She has shared her humanistic and activist concerns in her work as well as in her personal life. Gerry is an accomplished filmmaker with many award-winning films to her credit, including My Left Breast. This incredible film has won over 20 awards including two Geminis, Gold at the Hot Docs Festival, two awards at the Toronto Lesbian & Gay Film Festival and two awards at the Dallas Gay & Lesbian Film Festival.
In this film, Gerry has transformed her personal experience of breast cancer into the political by giving breast cancer a face…her face. Gerry's vulnerability is her strength as she lets the viewer see her unmasked. This personal sharing removes much of the shame associated with cancer. Her courage not only inspires all 'survivors' who view the film, but it also helps to make a larger audience aware of the many complex issues surrounding breast cancer.
What is also very important in this film is the love that is shared between Gerry and her partner, Peg, who was the main cameraperson during the film's creation. This love and commitment that is so clearly and powerfully evident to viewers of the film, goes a long way in educating people about same sex relationships.
Gerry took My Left Breast on tour to the United States and was invited to speak on the Rosie O'Donnell show. Back in Canada, she was interviewed in depth by Vicki Gabereau in December of 2000 thus bringing added awareness to Canadians. Gerry's other award winning documentaries include The Vienna Tribunal, To A Safer Place, and Kathleen Shannon. But Gerry's biggest accomplishment, according to the many people who know and love her, is the kindness and caring that she shares with all who come in contact with her. Her life and her art are one. (2003 Induction Statement)
Gerry Rogers est une femme généreuse de cœur et d'esprit. Dans son travail et dans sa vie privée, elle a partagé ses préoccupations humaines et militantes. Gerry est une cinéaste chevronnée qui a plusieurs films primés à son actif, y compris My Left Breast. Ce film incroyable lui a valu vingt prix, dont deux Gémeaux, la palme d'or au Hot Docs Festival, deux prix au Festival des films gais et lesbiens de Toronto et deux prix au Festival des films gais et lesbiens de Dallas.
Avec ce film, Gerry a greffé une facette politique à son expérience personnelle en donnant un visage au cancer du sein : son visage. La force de Gerry réside dans sa vulnérabilité car le masque tombe devant le public. Ce partage personnel a pour effet d'éliminer la honte associée au cancer. Son courage est inspirant pour les " survivantes " qui voient le film, tout en sensibilisant un public plus large au sujet des questions complexes entourant le cancer du sein.
Ce qui est également important dans ce film, c'est l'amour que Gerry partage avec sa partenaire Peg, qui fut la principale préposée à la caméra durant le tournage. Cet amour et cet engagement, si évidents et puissants aux yeux des spectateurs, contribuent à l'éducation au sujet des relations de même sexe.
Gerry a présenté My Left Breast en tournée américaine et a été invitée à l'émission Rosie O'Donnell. De retour au Canada, elle eut une entrevue en profondeur avec Vicki Gabereau en décembre 2000, augmentant ainsi le rayonnement canadien. Les autres films primés de Gerry incluent The Vienna Tribunal, To A Safer Place et Kathleen Shammon. Au dire de ceux et celles qui la connaissent et qui l'aiment, la plus grande contribution de Gerry demeure la bonté et le soin qu'elle partage avec quiconque entre en contact avec elle. Sa vie et son art ne font qu'un. (2003 Déclaration d'Induction)
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Claire Priddle
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Canadian Lesbian and Gay Archives
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2003
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Medium: acrylic on canvas
Dimensions: 41 x 25 cm (W x H)
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138
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Jane Rule (1931-2007)
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A torch-bearer for several generations of lesbian writers and activists, Jane Rule has written 12 critically acclaimed books and created a legacy of active engagement in the pursuit of lesbian and gay rights. Her beautifully crafted, pioneering first novel, Desert of the Heart (1964), was written before the formation of a gay liberation movement.
Jane Rule, who has seen her own book, The Young in One Anothers Arms, seized by customs officials, is an outspoken opponent of censorship. Among many causes, she has supported The Body Politic and Little Sisters bookstore in their battles with censors. Her life and work have been honoured in an inspiring and moving film by Lynne Fernie and Aerlyn Weissman, Fiction and Other Truths: A Film About Jane Rule. (1998 Induction Statement)
Jane Rule died at her home on Galiano Island, B.C., November 28, 2007. She was 76.
Militante, auteure de 12 livres primés par la critique, y compris son premier roman pionnier, Desert of the Heart (1964), écrit avant le début du mouvement de libération homosexuelle.
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Catherine Grant
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Canadian Lesbian and Gay Archives
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1998
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Medium: acrylic on canvas
Dimensions: 20 x 25 cm (W x H)
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156
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Craig Russell (1948-1990)
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Craig Russell, Canadian female impersonator, stage actor and entertainer, writer and movie star, was born in Toronto. At 13, Mr. Russell formed the Mae West International Fan Club and by 15, he made the first of several trips to California to work for West while perfecting his impersonations of her. A high school dropout, he worked as a professional hairdresser while performing his female impersonations at gay clubs in Toronto. Others in his repertoire included Miss Peggy Lee, Judy Garland, Carol Channing and Barbra Streisand.
He performed in both North American and European circuits gathering many fans. The loosely, autobiographical film, Outrageous, in 1977 provided Russell a vehicle for his impersonations making him an international star and winning a Silver Bear Award for Best Actor at the Berlin Film Festival in 1978. In the 1970s and 1980s, Russell toured extensively and returned to Toronto in 1982 to film Too Outrageous!
Craig Russell lived a tumultuous life complicated with mental illness, alcoholism and AIDS; but, his stage and screen persona served as a role model to female impersonators and drag queens around the world. (2001 Induction Statement)
Travesti, comédien, artiste de la scène, écrivain, vedette de cinéma et fondateur (à 13 ans) du Mae West International Fan Club
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James Huctwith
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Canadian Lesbian and Gay Archives
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2001
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Medium: oil on canvas
Dimensions: 27 x 35 cm (W x H)
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087
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Kyle Scanlon (1971-2012)
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A native of Hamilton, Kyle Scanlon was a member of the queer students’ organization at McMaster University. A move to Toronto led Kyle into the Lesbian Gay Bi Youth Line, where he became the first openly transsexual man to be the Executive Director of a queer agency in Canada. Kyle was led to his current position at the 519 Community Centre, where he serves as the Centre’s Trans Programmes Co-coordinator. Finding emergency housing, securing funding for the programmes he oversees, providing a supportive ear and a safe space for distressed clients, and engaging in the process with Toronto’s homeless shelters to implement trans-positive policies are all in a day’s work. With the program’s’ weekly drop-in centre, Kyle also ensures his clients can look forward to a hot, nourishing meal, can access a housing worker and a legal clinic.
After hours, he can be found working as a member of Toronto’s LGBT Police Consultative Committee, with the Sherbourne Health Centre, where he works to improve access to medical services for the trans, two-spirited, and intersexed communities, or in an advisory role to a number of research projects related to trans issues. He was a key player in the Youth Migration Project, a large-scale research study undertaken to evaluate issues in HIV vulnerability in youth who have migrated to Toronto, the AIDS Committee of Toronto’s Trans Needs Assessment, and Fred Victor Centre’s document “Where We Are All Welcome”, highlighting the unique issues of homeless trans people trying to access space in hostels and shelters. Additionally, Kyle has supported many other community organizations in their quest to become trans-positive/trans-accessible, including the Children’s Aid Society of Toronto, The Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, the Planned Parenthood Federation of Canada, and the Law Society of Upper Canada, to name only a few.
His publications have appeared in such diverse media outlets as local newspapers, feminist essay collections, health advocacy websites, and academic journals. Kyle has been invited to speak at conferences across North America, and was recognized for his extensive community involvement with the 2001 Grassroots Trans Community Activist of the Year from SOY. (2005 Induction Statement)
Natif de Hamilton, Kyle Scanlon a été membre de l’organisme gai de l’Université McMaster. Arrivé à Toronto, il s’engage dans Lesbian Gay Bi Youth Line, où il devient le premier homme ouvertement transsexuel à occuper le poste de directeur général d’une agence gaie au Canada. Kyle est aujourd’hui coordonnateur des programmes Trans au Centre communautaire The 519. Il lui incombe de trouver du logement d’urgence et du financement pour ses programmes, d’écouter les clients en détresse et de leur procurer un espace sécuritaire, et de sensibiliser les centres pour sans-abri de Toronto au bien-fondé des politiques Trans. Grâce au centre d’accueil hebdomadaire, Kyle veille à ce que ses clients jouissent d’un repas chaud nutritif et aient accès à une clinique juridique ainsi qu’à un travailleur social spécialisé en logement.
Après le boulot, Kyle œuvre auprès du comité consultatif LGBT de la Sûreté de Toronto, agit comme consultant pour divers projets de recherche reliés à la trans-sexualité et travaille avec le Centre de santé Sherbourne où il veille à ce que les services médicaux soient accessibles aux communautés bi-spirituelles, transsexuelles et inter-sexuelles. Il a joué un rôle clé dans le projet Youth Migration (une imposante recherche évaluant les questions du VIH auprès des jeunes vulnérables qui immigrent à Toronto), dans l’évaluation des besoins des transsexuels effectuée par le Comité du sida de Toronto et dans la rédaction, pour le Centre Fred-Victor, du document « Where We Are All Welcome » sur les besoins uniques des transsexuels en ce qui a trait à l’accès aux auberges et aux centres d’accueil. De plus, Kyle a appuyé plusieurs organismes communautaires dans leur désir de devenir plus ouverts et accessibles aux transsexuels, y compris la Société d’aide à l’enfance de Toronto, le Centre de toxicomanie et de santé mentale, la Fédération pour le planning des naissances du Canada et le Barreau du Haut-Canada.
Ses publications ont paru dans des médias aussi variés que les journaux locaux, les collections d’essais féministes, les sites Internet de revendication en matière de santé et les ouvrages académiques. Kyle a été invité à prononcer des conférences partout en Amérique du Nord. En reconnaissance de son engagement communautaire, SOY lui a décerné le 2001 Grassroots Trans Community Activist of the Year Award. (2005 Déclaration d’induction)
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Laura Spaldin
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Canadian Lesbian and Gay Archives
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2005
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Medium: archival quality black and white photographic print
Dimensions: 25 x 36 cm (W x H)
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088
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Lesbians Making History Collections
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The Lesbians Making History (LMH) collective came together in the mid-1980s and was inspired by oral history projects of gay lives coming out of Buffalo, Boston and San Francisco. The collective interviewed 9 women about their experiences as ‘out’ lesbians in the 1950s, 60s, and 70s.
Collective members included:
Rachel Epstein
Maureen FitzGerald
Amy Gottlieb
Didi Khayatt
Mary Louise Noble
Lorie Rotenberg
Some of the women interviewed also appeared in Aerlyn Weissman and Lynne Fernie’s NFB-funded documentary Forbidden Love: The Unashamed Stories of Lesbian Lives. The 1992 film was out of print for many years until 2014, when the National Film Board released it in digital format.
Although the organizers of Lesbians Making History were committed to keeping the project a community-based initiative, and not one rooted in academic pursuit, they allowed Elise Chenier, now a professor at Simon Fraser University, to use the transcripts of the interviews for her MA thesis. Chenier’s work on lesbian bar culture in the 1950s and 60s is widely taught in Canadian universities. Interview material was also used by Cameron Duder and by Gary Kinsman and Patrizia Gentile.
In 2014 the original audio tapes were given to the CLGA via the LGBTQ Digital Oral History Collaboratory, a multi-institutional research project led by University of Toronto professor Elspeth Brown and funded by a 5-year SSRHC Insight grant.
Embedded at the Canadian Lesbian and Gay Archives (CLGA), Collaboratory members digitized LMH materials and created new verbatim transcriptions. Original LHM collective members assisted with editing transcripts, identifying key words and writing abstracts for each oral history interview.
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Lesbians Making History Collective
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1985-1987, 2000
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1950s to 1970s, 1985-1987
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Maureen Fitzgerald; LGBTQ Oral History Digital Collaboratory (Elspeth Brown, PI)
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Oral History with Betty Burrows & Shirley Shea, 1987
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Betty was born on a farm just outside in Sydney, Australia and Shirley was born in Sudbury in 1924. The two meet in Toronto in the 1960s, where they were apart of the lesbian bar scene that gravitated around The Continental. At the time of the interview in 1985, both Shirley and Betty are retired. The interview covers their early lives in Australia and Sudbury, Ontario; their coming-out experiences and various men and women they have dated; Betty’s travels around the world and Shirley’s work for CBC; their first encounter; and life in the lesbian bar scene in Toronto.
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Lesbians Making History Collective
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1987
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Lesbians Making History Collective
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oral history
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1950s to 1970s, 1987
bars
coming out
lesbian
lesbian relationships
oral history
Sudbury
The Continental
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https://digitalexhibitions.arquives.ca/files/original/1214a1fc0de00f7849fccc8d9471e2d0.pdf
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Lesbians Making History Collections
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The Lesbians Making History (LMH) collective came together in the mid-1980s and was inspired by oral history projects of gay lives coming out of Buffalo, Boston and San Francisco. The collective interviewed 9 women about their experiences as ‘out’ lesbians in the 1950s, 60s, and 70s.
Collective members included:
Rachel Epstein
Maureen FitzGerald
Amy Gottlieb
Didi Khayatt
Mary Louise Noble
Lorie Rotenberg
Some of the women interviewed also appeared in Aerlyn Weissman and Lynne Fernie’s NFB-funded documentary Forbidden Love: The Unashamed Stories of Lesbian Lives. The 1992 film was out of print for many years until 2014, when the National Film Board released it in digital format.
Although the organizers of Lesbians Making History were committed to keeping the project a community-based initiative, and not one rooted in academic pursuit, they allowed Elise Chenier, now a professor at Simon Fraser University, to use the transcripts of the interviews for her MA thesis. Chenier’s work on lesbian bar culture in the 1950s and 60s is widely taught in Canadian universities. Interview material was also used by Cameron Duder and by Gary Kinsman and Patrizia Gentile.
In 2014 the original audio tapes were given to the CLGA via the LGBTQ Digital Oral History Collaboratory, a multi-institutional research project led by University of Toronto professor Elspeth Brown and funded by a 5-year SSRHC Insight grant.
Embedded at the Canadian Lesbian and Gay Archives (CLGA), Collaboratory members digitized LMH materials and created new verbatim transcriptions. Original LHM collective members assisted with editing transcripts, identifying key words and writing abstracts for each oral history interview.
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Lesbians Making History Collective
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1985-1987, 2000
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1950s to 1970s, 1985-1987
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Maureen Fitzgerald; LGBTQ Oral History Digital Collaboratory (Elspeth Brown, PI)
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Oral History with Eve Zaremba, 1986
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Eve Zaremba was born in Poland in 1930. The Second World War displaced her family to Scotland and England, where she was sent to a boarding school in Reading until the age of 15. Zaremba leaves school in 1945 and moves with her family to Southern Ontario. When she comes to Toronto in 1954, Zaremba becomes an advertising and marketing executive, and later becomes an important figure in the Women’s Movement. The interview concerns Eve’s coming out process from the 1960s, charting her lesbian relationships through the Women’s Movement in Toronto. At the time of the interview, Zaremba had became a noted writer. Her best-known works are The Privilege of Sex and The Helen Karemos Detective Series.
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Lesbians Making History Collective
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1986
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Lesbians Making History Collective
LGBTQ Digital Oral History Collaboratory
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oral history
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1950s to 1970s, 1986
coming out
feminism
lesbian
lesbian writers
oral history
women's movement
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Lesbians Making History Collections
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The Lesbians Making History (LMH) collective came together in the mid-1980s and was inspired by oral history projects of gay lives coming out of Buffalo, Boston and San Francisco. The collective interviewed 9 women about their experiences as ‘out’ lesbians in the 1950s, 60s, and 70s.
Collective members included:
Rachel Epstein
Maureen FitzGerald
Amy Gottlieb
Didi Khayatt
Mary Louise Noble
Lorie Rotenberg
Some of the women interviewed also appeared in Aerlyn Weissman and Lynne Fernie’s NFB-funded documentary Forbidden Love: The Unashamed Stories of Lesbian Lives. The 1992 film was out of print for many years until 2014, when the National Film Board released it in digital format.
Although the organizers of Lesbians Making History were committed to keeping the project a community-based initiative, and not one rooted in academic pursuit, they allowed Elise Chenier, now a professor at Simon Fraser University, to use the transcripts of the interviews for her MA thesis. Chenier’s work on lesbian bar culture in the 1950s and 60s is widely taught in Canadian universities. Interview material was also used by Cameron Duder and by Gary Kinsman and Patrizia Gentile.
In 2014 the original audio tapes were given to the CLGA via the LGBTQ Digital Oral History Collaboratory, a multi-institutional research project led by University of Toronto professor Elspeth Brown and funded by a 5-year SSRHC Insight grant.
Embedded at the Canadian Lesbian and Gay Archives (CLGA), Collaboratory members digitized LMH materials and created new verbatim transcriptions. Original LHM collective members assisted with editing transcripts, identifying key words and writing abstracts for each oral history interview.
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Lesbians Making History Collective
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1985-1987, 2000
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1950s to 1970s, 1985-1987
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CLGA holds non-exclusive rights
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Maureen Fitzgerald; LGBTQ Oral History Digital Collaboratory (Elspeth Brown, PI)
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Oral History with Jeanne Healy, 1985
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Jeanne is an activist and retired bookkeeper and secretary. She was born in 1924, the youngest and only girl of five siblings and grew up and lived for a major part of her life in Toronto. At the time of the interview she was back living with her ex-lover, Lois Stewart and Lois’s husband. The interview covers Jeanne’s lesbian relationships from 1948 up to the time of the interview. She discusses the bar scene in Toronto and Detroit as well as house parties and friendships with other lesbians in Toronto. Topics discussed include dealing with homophobia from the 40’s to the present as well as thoughts on the intersection of class, gender and sex.
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Lesbians Making History Collective
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1985
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Lesbians Making History Collective
LGBTQ Digital Oral History Collaboratory
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The CLGA does not own the copyright
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oral history
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1950s to 1970s, 1985
1940s
bars
class
homophobia
lesbian
oral history