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Peter Millard was an academic, an art writer, a collector and a champion of human rights. Born in Clevendon, Wales, Peter received his higher education at McGill and Oxford before accepting an appointment in the Department of English at the…

Robin Metcalfe is a Halifax-based curator, writer, poet and longtime gay and lesbian rights activist. From 1987 to 1992, he was involved in Lesbian and Gay Rights Nova Scotia, which successfully lobbied the Nova Scotia government for the explicit…

Manitoba-born actor and writer Billy Merasty comes from a distinguished line of First Nations artists. His uncles, the late ballet dancer Renee Highway and the writer Tomson Highway provided gay-positive role models for the young Two-Spirited man…

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…

Tim McCaskell, who worked in Toronto schools doing anti-racism and anti-homophobia work with students for almost twenty years, is a long-time AIDS activist. In 1988, he was a founding member of AIDS Action Now (AAN), a group formed to raise the…

Writer, playwright, sculptor and visual artist Jovette Marchessault is a self-educated daughter of a working-class Quebecois family. Jovette began her career as a sculptor, attracting international attention with her multimedia Earth Mothers series,…

Ann-Marie MacDonald is a writer and actor. Her work for the theatre includes the play Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet) and the script and lyrics for the musical comedy, Anything That Moves. She plays the comic role of Frances in the recent…

Dr. Michael Lynch, Canadian-American university professor, activist, writer, scholar, father and centerfold model for both Honcho and Mandate magazines, was struck down by AIDS. He taught modern poetry, fiction and writing at St. Michael's College in…

Dr. Alan Li, an immigrant from Hong Kong, is a Toronto-based physician, community organizer and human rights activist. Since the early 1980s, he has been the driving force behind Gay Asians Toronto. He co-founded Hong Kong 10%,Club, the first…

Bev Lepischak was born in 1953 on a small farm in rural Manitoba, where she learned that hard work and careful nurturing could make things grow under even the harshest conditions. Bev studied Social Work at the University of Manitoba and worked in…