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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…

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…

Acknowledgements
Introduction: Marvellous Grounds - Jin Haritaworn and Ghaida Moussa, with Syrus Marcus Ware
Part One Counter-Archives
1Organizing on the Corner: Trans Women of Colour and Sex Worker Activism in Toronto in the 1980s and 1990s -…

Toronto has long been a place that people of colour move to in order to join queer of colour communities. Yet the city’s rich history of activism by queer and trans Black, Indigenous, and racialized people (QTBIPOC) remains largely unwritten and…

Oral History with Martine Stonehouse, one of 7 activists involved in fighting Ontario's delisting of gender confirming surgeries from the province's public health plan in 1998. Conducted in Spring/Summer 2016 as part of the LGBTQ Oral History Digital…

Portrait of Marsha P. Johnson by Emilia Dagger, commissioned by SWAP Hamilton in 2022.

Unknown photographer
Early 2000s
Possibly Toronto, Ontario
Gift of Mirha-Soleil Ross
Courtesy of the Canadian Lesbian and Gay Archives

Two round buttons with black text on pink background, and black text on red background.

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…

Portrait of Margo St. James by Natasha Stavnitzky, commissioned by SWAP Hamilton in 2022.