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Roy Mitchell was an arts director at Trinity Square Video in Toronto and is an artist and activist. Mitchell served on the Pride Toronto board of directors, aiming to change Pride from the inside, and notes that community can be destroyed by…

Richard Hudler is a community developer, counsellor, artist, and activist. His work focuses on AIDS, with the HIV/AIDS Community Centre, the Homophile Association of London Ontario, the Canadian Lesbian and Gay Rights Organization, and other…

Richard Fung is an academic, writer, video maker, and has been involved in gay and queer activism for the past thirty years, including founding the group Gay Asians of Toronto in 1979. In 1984, Fung shot Orientations, a film that focused on gay…

This video is an excerpt of an interview (2004) with Rev. Dr. Brent Hawkes, of the Metropolitan Community Church of Toronto. He discusses his role in performing the first legal same-sex marriages in Canada, which he was able to perform by taking…

Part of an oral history project that collected stories from anonymous men who were arrested as found-ins during the 1981 Bathhouse Raids in Toronto.

Phillip, who was the treasurer of the Right to Privacy Committee, discusses his sexuality and…

In this oral history interview, Phil Conron, 53 years old, discusses growing up in Toronto in the 1940s, trying to fit in with other boys in school, and early adolescent sexual experiences with other young men. He discusses his involvement with the…

Clip is an excerpt of an interview with Peter Bochove, co-owner of the Richmond Street Health Emporium. Bochove talks about the 1981 raid, part of "Operation Soap" run by Toronto Police.

Nik Redman is a Black, Caribbean, queer, trans, parent, activist, and DJ. Redman was involved in the Black activist community, then later became involved in Ottawa's queer community, Queer Nation, AIDS rallies, and worked for CKLN Pink Antenna, a…

This video is an excerpt of an interview with Nancy Rosenberg (2004) as she discusses her pension case, CUPE, and discrimination against LGBTQ+ peoples in trying to access legal and medical benefits with relation to their partners.

Morgan Page is a trans feminist performance and video artist, and activist in Canada and the United States. Her activist and artistic work focuses on decriminalizing sex work and HIV, and she helped organize the No More Apologies’ Conference for…