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Metro Community News, Jan 25, 1974 with headline "Near Suicide at City Hall Gives Gays a Second Chance"

MCCT Experience the Power of Positive People!, Metropolitan Community Church of Toronto, Button, 1990s, Artifact Collection, The ArQuives: Canada’s LGBTQ2+ Archives

MCCT proud to be, Metropolitan Community Church of Toronto, Button, 1990s, Artifact Collection, The ArQuives: Canada’s LGBTQ2+ Archives

Free To Be, Metropolitan Community Churches, 2000s, Artifact Collection, The ArQuives: Canada’s LGBTQ2+ Archives

Christmas Eve 11pm Service at Roy Thomson Hall, 1991, MCC Toronto fonds, The ArQuives: Canada’s LGBTQ2+ Archives

Caption:
Rev. Brent Hawkes and Rev. Nancy Radclyffe
Choir members behind: Lorraine Knight, David Lockie, Rick Tremaine, Patrick…

Rupert Raj documents his experiences as a transgender man.

According to Rupert Raj (personal communication, Jan. 31, 2024), those were his sentiments at that time—-as a result of internalized transphobia and homophobia, as well as acute massive burnout. However, over the decades he has evolved to move his…