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Bear Bergman is a writer, storyteller, activist, performer, gender-jammer, and self-describes as an over-educated contrarian involved with LGBTQ. Bergman has been in activism since 1990, from the age of 16, and was the founder of one of the first…

Oral history interview with a gay man, Bob, completed as part of the Foolscap project.

Bob discusses growing up Jewish and gay in Toronto from pre-World War II onwards. He begins the interview by recounting his entrance into the Toronto gay scene…

Brendan Healy is a theatre director and a past artistic director of Buddies in Bad Times Theatre. Healy discusses how Queer Liberation informs his artistry, and the importance of intergenerationality to Liberation. Healy urges us to think more…

Charlie Hill is a past curator of Canadian art at the National Gallery of Canada. While at the University of Toronto, he was the first president of the University of Toronto Homophile Association in 1969, and credits activists Jearld Moldenhauer…

Tom Warner interviews lesbian activist Chris Bearchell about her experiences in the early days of LOOT (Lesbian Organization of Toronto), writing for the Body Politic, and her experiences with leftist groups. Themes include feminism, pornography, and…

This video is an excerpt from an interview with Chris Vogel and Richard North (2004-07-20) about gay liberation and their marriage in 1974 in Winnipeg. They discuss predominant views about homosexuality at the time, particularly in relation to Human…

Tom Warner interviews Clarissa Lagartera about her gay identity and coming out, activism as a young person, campaign for president of the students' association at the University of Winnipeg, performing as a drag king, the lack of lesbian community in…

Oral history interview with a gay man, David, completed as part of the Foolscap project.

David, a 60 year old gay man at the time of the interview, discusses his long-term relationships and friendships in Toronto after World War II. He came out in…

In this oral history interview, Del Newbigging, 50 years old, discusses his experience with psychiatric therapy, marriage counselling, and sex therapy, as well as his constant thought of committing suicide before coming to terms with his sexuality…

Denis LeBlanc was queer and had been out since he was 20 at the University of Waterloo. LeBlanc was involved with Gays of Ottawa and credits it as having an impact on local, provincial, and national debates that were happening within the Queer…