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John Wilson has been involved in the Queer Liberation Movement since the 1970s and was at the first gay protest on Parliament Hill, a member of Toronto Gay Action, Gay Alliance Toward Equality, Gays and Lesbians Against the Right Everywhere,…

John Greyson is an artist and filmmaker who teaches film at York University. Greyson has been making films, videos, installations, and artist books that deal with Queer Liberation since the early 1980s. Discusses how the queer movement and…

Jearld Moldenhauer is an activist and artist who participated in the August 1971 march We Demand at Ottawa's Parliament Hill, danced in straight bars, and staged kiss-ins and zaps. Moldenhauer formed Toronto Gay Action, proposed and created The…

Jane Farrow is a queer activist, community developer, storyteller, journalist, filmmaker, and was one of the first out CBC broadcasters. She has been a participant at demonstrations and protests, and an out queer in primarily straight places.…

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…

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…

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…

Frank Folino trained as a political scientist, and is a queer Deaf leader and advocate, and has served as the vice president of the Canadian Association of the Deaf. Folino stresses the importance of rights and their identity at the intersections…