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Interviews with Lesbian Phone Line Members
1982 interviews with members of Toronto's Lesbian Phone Line about their coming out experiences and subsequent reflections.
The three women discuss their early life, coming out, early crushes and relationships, family issues, and socializing and…
The three women discuss their early life, coming out, early crushes and relationships, family issues, and socializing and…
Interview with Chris Bearchell (1993)
Tom Warner interviews lesbian activist Chris Bearchell about her experiences in the early days of LOOT (Lesbian Organization of Toronto), writing for the Body Politic, and her experiences with leftist groups. Themes include feminism, pornography, and…
Interview with Gary Kinsman
An extended interview between Tom Warner and Gary Kinsman, an academic and activist who discusses gay political activism in the 1970s and 1980s in Toronto and the maritimes.
Part 1 covers coming out and his early life, and getting involved with…
Part 1 covers coming out and his early life, and getting involved with…
Strategy for the Gay Movement
A 1978 conversation between Stuart Russell, Reiner Marvitz, Gerhard Hoffman, Mariana Valverde, Brian Mossop, Ben Popert, David Thorstad, and Bob Kunst about the state of the gay movement and its history and future.
Topics include how to engage…
Topics include how to engage…
The Body Politic on Trial with Michael Lynch
Michael Lynch reflects on the 1979 police raid of theBody Politicoffices and the subsequent trial after it published the story "Men Loving Boys Loving Men." The response to the trial touched on police brutality, obscenity laws, gay liberation,…
Interview with Jack
Part of an oral history project that collected stories from anonymous men who were arrested as found-ins during the 1981 Bathhouse Raids in Toronto.
Jack discusses his sexuality, socializing in the gay community, gay bars and bathhouses and their…
Jack discusses his sexuality, socializing in the gay community, gay bars and bathhouses and their…
Interview with Phillip
Part of an oral history project that collected stories from anonymous men who were arrested as found-ins during the 1981 Bathhouse Raids in Toronto.
Phillip, who was the treasurer of the Right to Privacy Committee, discusses his sexuality and…
Phillip, who was the treasurer of the Right to Privacy Committee, discusses his sexuality and…
Interview with William (Bill) Atkinson (1983)
In this oral history interview, Bill Atkinson, a 67 years old gay man, describes the traumatic experience of being cashiered from the navy during a period of gay witch-hunts beginning in the late 1950s. Bill describes his life before, during and…