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Portrait of Marsha P. Johnson by Emilia Dagger, commissioned by SWAP Hamilton in 2022.

Oral History with Martine Stonehouse, one of 7 activists involved in fighting Ontario's delisting of gender confirming surgeries from the province's public health plan in 1998. Conducted in Spring/Summer 2016 as part of the LGBTQ Oral History Digital…

Toronto has long been a place that people of colour move to in order to join queer of colour communities. Yet the city’s rich history of activism by queer and trans Black, Indigenous, and racialized people (QTBIPOC) remains largely unwritten and…

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Introduction: Marvellous Grounds - Jin Haritaworn and Ghaida Moussa, with Syrus Marcus Ware
Part One Counter-Archives
1Organizing on the Corner: Trans Women of Colour and Sex Worker Activism in Toronto in the 1980s and 1990s -…

Mary Meigs was born in Philadelphia in 1917 and grew up in Washington, D.C. She obtained a B.A. from Bryn Mawr College in 1939, where she became an instructor in English and creative writing. As a writer, she is best known for The Medusa Head (which…

Mary-Woo Sims has worked to further lesbian and gay and same-sex spousal rights for many years. She was co-chair of the Campaign for Equal Families, and took great joy in witnessing the determination and cohesion of the lesbian and gay community…

A scan of a matchbook with The Rose Cafe name, phone number, and address

Photo of Maureen FitzGerald and Lynne Fernie taken at launch of Lesbians Making History Digital Collection, held at the Canadian Lesbian and Gay Archives, June 7, 2015.

Maureen Fitzgerald Holding Lesbians Making History Banner at 1993 Pride March

Photo of original collective member Maureen FitzGerald taken at launch of Lesbians Making History Digital Collection, held at the Canadian Lesbian and Gay Archives, June 7, 2015.