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Interview with Mona Forrest, director of the women’s centre in Toronto. She discusses her campaign for municipal election in Montreal’s district 40, her political commitments, and her work at rape crisis centres. Common themes include the differences…

An interview by Michael Lynch with an anonymous man, age 41, who was arrested during the bathhouse raids.

Tape one (56 mins) covers his early life in Hamilton, coming out and family life, marriage to a woman, life in Hamilton, and gay life in…

Alan Li is a physician, community organizer, activist, artist, and became connected to the gay community and gay liberation movement through Gay Asians of Toronto in 1981. Li was involved with the formation of the Coalition Against Homophobia,…

Alec Butler is an intersex two-spirit artist, activist, playwright, and elder. Butler describes being born queer, involvement in and history of the queer liberation movement in terms of their involvement and what they’ve learned. Interview…

Tom Warner interviews Allison Brewer about her life since coming out in Fredericton in 1979. She discusses the social scene, house parties, and dances in the 1980s, the activities of Fredericton Lesbians and Gays (FLAG), the impact of the AIDS…

Amy Gottlieb has been an activist within the Queer Liberation Movement from the mid-1970s onward and was also involved in lesbian and feminist organizing. Gottlieb speaks about revolutionary socialist organizing, and Queer Liberation as borrowing…

Andrea Zanin is a queer and BDSM academic, activist, and writer. She’s done work in Unholy Harvest = trans, disAbility, race, sex-positive inclusive issues. To Zanin, the Movement is loose and challenges different points of normalcy from…

Anna Willats is an academic and activist who identifies as queer first, and as a woman second. Willats understands that her work with police accountability, violence against women and children, anti-poverty, anti-racism, and immigration is…

Ashleigh Ingle is a queer anarchist. Ingles’ early activist work began with anarchist groups in Toronto, many of whom were queer, and picked up with the controversy over Queers Against Israeli Apartheid at Pride. Ingle urges that we create and…

This video is an excerpt from an interview with Barbara Thornborrow (2001), the first person to go public with case of anti-gay discrimination in the Canadian military. She discusses her treatment in the military and her subsequent legal case on…