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In 1971, Tom Warner helped found the Gay Students' Alliance at the University of Saskatchewan and the Zodiac Friendship Society, the community organization that later became the Gay Community Centre of Saskatoon. After moving to Toronto, he helped…

Delwin Vriend was fired from his laboratory coordinator job with the Christian King's College in Edmonton in January 1991 after confirming that he was gay. Vriend was unable to complain through the Alberta Human Rights Commission since the Alberta…

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…

"Because disabled people are assumed to be asexual, and lesbian identities are sexual identities, disabled lesbians have been rendered non-existent. Much of the work I have done has derived from an urgent desire to wrestle sole ownership of lesbian…

Barbara Thornborrow came out in 1977, when she was threatened with dismissal from the Canadian Armed Forces, where she was a Private in the photographic department. Following a search of her barracks room, questioning of her roommate and confiscation…

Douglas Stewart is a gay rights activist who has focused much of his energy on working with the Black community, especially as project co-ordinator with the Black Coalition for AIDS Prevention (Black CAP). For Stewart, "Finding language between the…

The mix of spirituality, politics, and social justice are what makes Tim Stevenson such an important trailblazer for the LGBT community on Canada's west coast. Tim was the first openly gay person ordained by a mainstream Christian denomination in…

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…

Writer, editor, political activist and mother of two wonderful daughters, Jamaican born Makeda Silvera is a visionary who has revolutionized Canadian literature. In 1985, she and partner Stephanie Martin co-founded Sister Vision Press, the first and…

Shyam Selvadurai is the author of the brilliant, ground-breaking and internationally acclaimed novel Funny Boy, a story of growing up gay in Sri Lanka amidst the long-standing conflict between the Tamil and Sinhalese communities. "It is difficult to…