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Page from a brochure titled "Survivor's Pension for Same-Sex Common-Law Partners." Page features George Hislop and Ron Shearer's relationship to explain the political climate regarding this topic.

First oral history with Susan Gapka, 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…

Second oral history with Susan Gapka, 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…

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,…

Susan Ursel is a lawyer working in the areas of labour and human rights. She represents trade unions, individuals and other progressive organizations. Her parents were both from Saskatchewan. She credits this Prairie heritage and the strong women of…

Svend Robinson, politician and activist, has been one of the key figures of Canadian political life since his election as a New Democratic Party MP to the House of Commons in 1979. In 1988, he became the first MP to publicly declare that he was gay.…

MP Svend Robinson's address at the 1st annual Salaam Canada / 4th annual Al-Fatiha International Conference.

English version of the flyer for first meeting of The Sex Work Autonomous Committee (SWAC) / Le Comité autonome du travail du sexe (CATS) of Montreal.

Photograph of Jelena Vermilion with a representative of the Hamilton Public Library, having signed a Memorandum of Understanding for the HPL to take on and catalogue SWAP Hamilton’s archival collection of sex work books.

Photograph of button pins created by SWAP Hamilton. These button pins were distributed at the 2022 vigil and march in support of a recent victim of anti-sex worker violence.