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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.…

Marie Robertson is an outspoken lipstick lesbian. A community activist since the early 70's, Marie has never been afraid to rock the boat and challenge both those within and outside the LGBT community. For many years, she was one of the few…

Neil has been involved with Saskatoon's lesbian and gay communities since the early 1970s. In 1975, Neil and others joined to form the Committee to Defend Doug Wilson. During this struggle, Neil enlisted the support of the University of…

Born in 1952, Rupert Raj is a Eurasian counsellor/psychotherapist, clinical researcher, educator, lecturer, writer, editor, activist and Gender Specialist. He is a trailblazing activist who has been paving the way to improve life chances for trans…

Born in Ottawa in 1954 and raised in Oakville, Kyle attended Brock University, the University of Birmingham and the University of Toronto for his post-secondary education. He holds a Masters degree in Medieval History and a Masters of Library…

Ken Popert has been working for the Pink Triangle Press since the mid- 1970s. The Press published The Body Politic, a news magazine that sowed the seeds of homosexual rebellion in Canada and set the stage for the uprising that occurred in the wake of…

Lesbian, songwriter and musician, anti-diva. All that was in the future when Carole Pope moved from Manchester, England to Canada with her parents when she was a toddler. She has kept moving ever since. The peripatetic nature of her upbringing and…

Carmen is a Franco-Ontarien feminist, who, for almost three decades, has purposefully bridged different social movements in Canada and internationally. She states: "I have always strongly believed that all oppressions are linked and that therefore…

Following careers as an educator and a lawyer, Keith Norton served in the Ontario Legislature from 1975 to 1985. From 1977 to 1985 he held Cabinet posts in Community and Social Services, Environment, Health and Education, Colleges and Universities.…

In 1972 Chris Vogel and Rich North met at the University of Manitoba and together joined Gays for Equality (GFE). They tried to become legally married in 1974, however the church ceremony was disallowed by the Manitoba courts.

In the mid-1970's…