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Biographies and highlights for IFGE Guest-of-Honor Christine Jorgensen, Sister Mary Elizabeth, and Dr. John Money.

1982 interviews with members of Toronto's Lesbian Phone Line about their coming out experiences and subsequent reflections.

The three women discuss their early life, coming out, early crushes and relationships, family issues, and socializing and…

In this oral history interview, Bill Atkinson, a 67 years old gay man, describes the traumatic experience of being cashiered from the navy during a period of gay witch-hunts beginning in the late 1950s. Bill describes his life before, during and…

This video is an excerpt from an interview with Tom Warner (2001-11-03) as he discusses the civil rights strategy of including sexual orientation into Human Rights legislation in the 1970s. He also talks about founding the Coalition for Gay Rights in…

Tom Warner is an activist, educator, agitator, historian, author, teacher, and mentor. Warner sees Queer Liberation as challenging and changing attitudes about sexuality and gender and acknowledges that it is informed by the Civil Rights Movement…

Clip is of an excerpt from an interview with activist Tim McCaskell, who covered the Toronto Bath Raids (dubbed "Operation Soap" by the Toronto Metropolitan Police) for the Body Politic in 1981. He describes the raid on The Club Baths.

Tim McCaskell is a self-described gay dinosaur. He was a member of the Body Politic Collective, the Public Action Committee after the Toronto bathhouse raids in the 1980s and was a founding member of AIDS Action Now. McCaskell has also been…

Syrus Marcus Ware is an artist and activist. Ware is involved with Blackness Yes! that puts on Blockorama every year, which looks at Queer and Trans Liberation from a Black queer perspective and remains a place of resistance at Pride Toronto. In…

Susan Gapka is a community activist, community organizer, and founded the Trans Lobby Group (TLG). The TLG was formed to educate people, gain political agency for trans people, and develop partnerships between trans and other groups.…

Sky Gilbert is a queer artist, and as a result became a spokesperson. Gilbert is also a playwright, novelist, and poet. Gilbert argues that Gay Liberation is a thing of the past due to lack of support and urges an ongoing queer sensibility.…