The ArQuives Digital Exhibitions

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Alan Li is a physician, community organizer, activist, artist, and became connected to the gay community and gay liberation movement through Gay Asians of Toronto in 1981. Li was involved with the formation of the Coalition Against Homophobia,…

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Alec Butler is an intersex two-spirit artist, activist, playwright, and elder. Butler describes being born queer, involvement in and history of the queer liberation movement in terms of their involvement and what they’ve learned. Interview…

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Amy Gottlieb has been an activist within the Queer Liberation Movement from the mid-1970s onward and was also involved in lesbian and feminist organizing. Gottlieb speaks about revolutionary socialist organizing, and Queer Liberation as borrowing…

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Andrea Zanin is a queer and BDSM academic, activist, and writer. She’s done work in Unholy Harvest = trans, disAbility, race, sex-positive inclusive issues. To Zanin, the Movement is loose and challenges different points of normalcy from…

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Anna Willats is an academic and activist who identifies as queer first, and as a woman second. Willats understands that her work with police accountability, violence against women and children, anti-poverty, anti-racism, and immigration is…

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Ashleigh Ingle is a queer anarchist. Ingles’ early activist work began with anarchist groups in Toronto, many of whom were queer, and picked up with the controversy over Queers Against Israeli Apartheid at Pride. Ingle urges that we create and…

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Bear Bergman is a writer, storyteller, activist, performer, gender-jammer, and self-describes as an over-educated contrarian involved with LGBTQ. Bergman has been in activism since 1990, from the age of 16, and was the founder of one of the first…

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Brendan Healy is a theatre director and a past artistic director of Buddies in Bad Times Theatre. Healy discusses how Queer Liberation informs his artistry, and the importance of intergenerationality to Liberation. Healy urges us to think more…

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Charlie Hill is a past curator of Canadian art at the National Gallery of Canada. While at the University of Toronto, he was the first president of the University of Toronto Homophile Association in 1969, and credits activists Jearld Moldenhauer…

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Denis LeBlanc was queer and had been out since he was 20 at the University of Waterloo. LeBlanc was involved with Gays of Ottawa and credits it as having an impact on local, provincial, and national debates that were happening within the Queer…
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