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Nancy Nicol is a documentary filmmaker who has dedicated her career to tracing the history of the LGBT movement in Canada and around the world. She is passionately committed to using film and video as part of the movement for social change, while…

"Cities are the gravity of change. Their intense pull creates a critical mass of human imagination and action. Cities are global and local. Queer folk find both intimacy and anonymity in urban space. Gay ghetto's provide sex, love, family, identity…

Pat Murphy was born in Toronto, the daughter of Marion Roxby and Alphonsus Murphy, sister of Janet, James and Daniel Murphy. Pat was Vice-President of the Community Homophile Association of Toronto (CHAT), where she worked in all aspects of the…

As the first openly gay elected representative from the National Capital Region, Councillor Alex Munter has been a strong and articulate voice for fairness in Ottawa. Munter has won a reputation as a fighter for a fair and inclusive city, and is an…

Shani Mootoo is a visual artist, video-maker and writer who has skillfully found expression in a multitude of media. Her first published work, Out on Main Street, a collection of short stories and her luscious, imaginative first novel, Cereus Blooms…

Jearld Moldenhauer has been a key player in the creation of the gay movement in Canada. Over the years, he has participated in a multitude of activist organizations, such as the Body Politic, Community Homophile Association of Toronto, Toronto Gay…

I'm a UofT Homecoming Queen, Chair & Co-founder of North America's first LGBTQ Scouting group (I was a Chief Scout in my day), Co-chair of the lesbian gay bi youth line, sometimes activist with various community/provincial/national groups & other…

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…