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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…

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…

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…

Miriam Smith is a professor of social sciences at York University. Trained as a political scientist, for the past twenty years Smith's scholarship centres on LGBT politics and documenting the history of the Gay Liberation Movement in Canada.…

Marie Robertson is a therapist, community developer, and senior LGBT activist. Robertson critiques the desire for marriage equality with the desire to assimilate, and instead encourages young people to recognize the gains achieved by previous…

Marcel Grimard is a francophone queer. He critiques what have been termed respectable gays and their desire for normalizing conformity found within heteronormative couplings. Grimard cites the importance of intergenerationality within the Queer…

Loree Erickson is an artist, academic, activist, and community organizer who works primarily on disability and sexuality issues. Erickson's focus is on what she calls ‘queer crip porn’ - pornography made by and for other queer disabled folks -…

Lali Mohamad is a community builder, particularly with African, Black, and Caribbean communities. Mohamad has been influenced by Black lesbians like Audrey Lord, Barbara Smith, and Pat Parker, and this has pushed him to consider the…

Kristin Wong-Tam is a Toronto city councillor, a cultural activist, and an art dealer. Wong-Tam credits queer youth with pushing issues that had not previously been raised, and also cites the importance of seniors who continue to be active in the…

Ken Popert was the editor and publisher of Pink Triangle Press and identifies as a sexual libertarian. Popert cites internal anger and sectarianism as a threat to the movement and emphasizes the need for leadership and planning in any organized…