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Clip depicts bathhouse owner Peter Bochove describing a first hand account of the raid of the Richmond Street Health Emporium in Toronto in 1981, including destructive behaviour by police and the financial and practical ramifications for his…

Clip features professor and activist David Rayside discussing the history of the proposed 1986 amendment to Bill 7, to include protection on the grounds of sexual orientation. Includes involvement of CLGRO (The Coalition for Lesbian and Gay Rights in…

Clip features lawyer Susan Ursal explaining the history of Bill 167, An Act to Amend Ontario Statutes to Provide for the Equal Treatment of Persons in Spousal Relationships, in 1994 and the campaign for equal family rights in the LGBT community,…

Clip depicts a portion of the Gay Freedom Rally, held in Toronto to support of the passing of and amendment to Bill 7 in Ontario, to include protection on the grounds of sexual orientation. Clip features a speech by Margaret Atwood.

Clip features Irina Shipitko and Irina Fedotova-Fet, two Russian women who came to Toronto in October 2009 from their home in Moscow to be married, after their application was denied by the Moscow State Registry Office. The clip includes a press…

Clip shows an address given at the Egale Canada Human Rights Trust's Outlaws & Inlaws Equality Fundraising Gala event on June 22, 2004 at Church at Berkeley, Queen Street East, Toronto. The event featured Mary McCandless, the Forte Men’s Chorus, the…

Clip is a record of a demonstration that took place outside of the Second Cup on Yonge street in the Church-Wellesley village, on October 21st, 1994. The rally was held in response to a violent attack on Ross Mulhearon and Steve Tait in the same…

Interview with lawyer Michael Davenport, discussing Bill 167, the Act to Amend Ontario Statutes to Provide for the Equal Treatment of Persons in Spousal Relationships in Ontario. Davenport was the head of the Coalition for Lesbian and his…

Oral History with Greta Bauer, 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…

Oral History with Anna Travers, 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…