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Farzana Doctor is a social worker, author, and activist whose work seeks to challenge the status quo and forward intersectionality through anti-oppressive practices. In this interview, Doctor discusses challenges to Pride, free speech, human…

El-Farouk Khaki is the founder of Salaam, was the grand marshal in Pride Toronto, and has sat on numerous boards and committees. Khaki identifies as a queer, brown, Muslim immigrant, as well as a Canadian lawyer and advocate. He discusses the…

Ed Jackson was a member of The Body Politic collective and one of the founders of the AIDS Committee of Toronto (ACT). For Jackson, the Queer Liberation Movement wasn't solely about equality, but also about how people define gender roles and…

Denis LeBlanc was queer and had been out since he was 20 at the University of Waterloo. LeBlanc was involved with Gays of Ottawa and credits it as having an impact on local, provincial, and national debates that were happening within the Queer…

Charlie Hill is a past curator of Canadian art at the National Gallery of Canada. While at the University of Toronto, he was the first president of the University of Toronto Homophile Association in 1969, and credits activists Jearld Moldenhauer…

Brendan Healy is a theatre director and a past artistic director of Buddies in Bad Times Theatre. Healy discusses how Queer Liberation informs his artistry, and the importance of intergenerationality to Liberation. Healy urges us to think more…

Bear Bergman is a writer, storyteller, activist, performer, gender-jammer, and self-describes as an over-educated contrarian involved with LGBTQ. Bergman has been in activism since 1990, from the age of 16, and was the founder of one of the first…

Ashleigh Ingle is a queer anarchist. Ingles’ early activist work began with anarchist groups in Toronto, many of whom were queer, and picked up with the controversy over Queers Against Israeli Apartheid at Pride. Ingle urges that we create and…

Anna Willats is an academic and activist who identifies as queer first, and as a woman second. Willats understands that her work with police accountability, violence against women and children, anti-poverty, anti-racism, and immigration is…

Andrea Zanin is a queer and BDSM academic, activist, and writer. She’s done work in Unholy Harvest = trans, disAbility, race, sex-positive inclusive issues. To Zanin, the Movement is loose and challenges different points of normalcy from…