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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…

John was born in Maxville, Ontario but was a Torontonian since his boyhood days. John’s contribution to our gay and lesbian heritage spanned four decades and encompassed many roles. He was a pioneering activist, a tireless organizer, an inspiring…

Gay activist, twenty year volunteer with Gays of Ottawa; co-author of Gays and the Law, founding member of the Coalition for Lesbian & Gay Rights in Ontario and the Canadian Lesbian & Gay Rights Coalition, recipient of the John Damien Award in 1992,…

Singer, composer and actor, k.d. lang is a lesbian icon whose influence reaches far beyond Canada's borders. Born in Consort, Alberta, lang was the first mainstream celebrity in North America to come out as a lesbian, against the advice of many who…