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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.

Jack discusses his sexuality, socializing in the gay community, gay bars and bathhouses and their…

Hershel Russell is psychotherapist, a queer community activist, and political organizer. Russell was initially very involved in the lesbian and dyke community, began to identify as trans in the early 1990s, and stresses the importance of being…

Harold Desmarais has been involved in lesbian and gay movements since November 1972 and was the first executive secretary for the Coalition for Gay Rights in Ontario in 1980, when there was a push for an amendment to the Ontario Human Rights Code…

Clip is an excerpt of an interview with Harold Desmarais. Desmarais speaks on the 1981 protest in the Ontario legislature after the defeat of the amendment to include sexual orientation in the Ontario Human Rights act, and the eventual passage of the…

Gilles Marchildon is a francophone activist and was the executive director of Action Positive VIH/SIDA. Marchildon stresses the importance of diversity, and visibility for French queers in the Queer Liberation Movement. Interview conducted on…

Gerald Hannon describes himself as a semi-retired activist and was deeply involved in the Gay Liberation Movement in the 1970s and 1980s. Hannon has been involved in the Queer Liberation Movement as a journalist, photographer, and through…

Clip is an excerpt from an interview with George Hislop on life with his partner, Ron, and the same-sex pension case.

Gary Kinsman is a queer, social justice and anti-capitalist activist, and has done scholarly work around these issues. Kinsman has been involved with the radical and revolutionary left and became involved in the Gay Liberation Movement in the…

An extended interview between Tom Warner and Gary Kinsman, an academic and activist who discusses gay political activism in the 1970s and 1980s in Toronto and the maritimes.

Part 1 covers coming out and his early life, and getting involved with…

Interview with Gale Comin, a lesbian from Calgary who discusses her involvement with Calgary's gay political scene and how it changed over the last decade. She discusses the Imperial Court of the Chinook Arch and the Gay Information Resource Centre,…