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Title
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Foolscap Oral History Project
Subject
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gay men
Toronto
bars
oral history
HIV/AIDS
military occupations
family members
Description
An account of the resource
The Foolscap Oral History Project, also known as the Toronto Gay History Project, was undertaken by John Grube and Ed Jackson in order to collect and preserve histories of everyday gay life and social culture in Toronto. The project produced a collection of 42 interviews on 52 cassette tapes that provide a rich picture of the lives and histories of men in Grube and Jackson's social circle.
Interviews took place from 1981-1987, and cover gay life in Toronto from the 1940s until that time. Topics include the men's early life, coming out, relationships, friendships, sex lives, careers, military service, community organizing, political actions, religion, bar culture, and experiences with psychiatry.
The tapes and transcripts comprising the Foolscap Project were donated to the Canadian Lesbian and Gay Archives in 2016, and are currently being processed by the LGBTQ Oral History Digital Collaboratory.
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John Grube
Format
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Cassette Tapes
Interview Transcripts
Language
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English
Identifier
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2016-034
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LGBTQ Oral History Digital Collaboratory (Elspeth Brown, PI)
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Title
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Interview with Phil Conron
Subject
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oral history, gay culture, cruising
Description
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In this oral history interview, Phil Conron, 53 years old, discusses growing up in Toronto in the 1940s, trying to fit in with other boys in school, and early adolescent sexual experiences with other young men. He discusses his involvement with the gay social scene in Toronto in the 1950s and 60s, touching on topics that include cruising in Queen’s Park, going to parties and other gay social spaces on Toronto Island, bar culture, group sex parties, bath houses, police harassment, and a brief stint living in Vancouver in the late 1950s. Conron had long-term relationships with several men, which he outlines in brief. He also discusses his developing taste, later in life, for intergenerational relationships with young men in their early 20s. Conron briefly discusses his career, which is not identified in specific terms, and his growing participation as an actor in community theatre after his retirement.
Creator
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Foolscap Oral History Project
Date
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1985-05-22
Contributor
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Anna Malla
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CLGA
Format
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PDF, WAV
Language
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English
Type
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Sound, text
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2016-034
Coverage
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Toronto, Vancouver, 1950s, 1960s
baths
cruising
Hanlan’s Point
intergenerational relationships
King Cole Room
Oakleaf
oral history
police entrapment
Toronto Island
Vancouver
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Dublin Core
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Title
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Foolscap Oral History Project
Subject
The topic of the resource
gay men
Toronto
bars
oral history
HIV/AIDS
military occupations
family members
Description
An account of the resource
The Foolscap Oral History Project, also known as the Toronto Gay History Project, was undertaken by John Grube and Ed Jackson in order to collect and preserve histories of everyday gay life and social culture in Toronto. The project produced a collection of 42 interviews on 52 cassette tapes that provide a rich picture of the lives and histories of men in Grube and Jackson's social circle.
Interviews took place from 1981-1987, and cover gay life in Toronto from the 1940s until that time. Topics include the men's early life, coming out, relationships, friendships, sex lives, careers, military service, community organizing, political actions, religion, bar culture, and experiences with psychiatry.
The tapes and transcripts comprising the Foolscap Project were donated to the Canadian Lesbian and Gay Archives in 2016, and are currently being processed by the LGBTQ Oral History Digital Collaboratory.
Creator
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John Grube
Format
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Cassette Tapes
Interview Transcripts
Language
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English
Identifier
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2016-034
Contributor
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LGBTQ Oral History Digital Collaboratory (Elspeth Brown, PI)
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Interview with William (Bill) Atkinson (1983)
Subject
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Navy, gay men, oral history
Description
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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 after being discharged from the Navy. He was born in England in 1916 to a middle class family, and discusses a difficult childhood. During his time in the Navy, Bill moves between Ontario and the Pacific Northwest, occasionally travelling to Detroit to meet gay men at Bar 1011. After his career in the Navy, Bill took up modelling and acting to support himself, as well as managing a restaurant for a period of time. Bill discussed his involvement in the gay political community in Toronto, working for George Hislop’s political campaign in the 1980s. Topic discussed include the experience of being gay in the Navy, sexual harassment, mental health, financial insecurity, and gay politics in Toronto.
Creator
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Foolscap Oral History Project
Date
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1983-07-28
Contributor
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John Grube
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CLGA
Format
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PDF, WAV
Language
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English
Type
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Sound, text
Identifier
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2016-034
Coverage
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Toronto, Vancouver, Detroit; 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s
Bar 1011
coming out
Detroit
gay community
George Hislop
harassment
military
navy
police entrapment
Toronto
Vancouver
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Lesbians Making History Collections
Description
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The Lesbians Making History (LMH) collective came together in the mid-1980s and was inspired by oral history projects of gay lives coming out of Buffalo, Boston and San Francisco. The collective interviewed 9 women about their experiences as ‘out’ lesbians in the 1950s, 60s, and 70s.
Collective members included:
Rachel Epstein
Maureen FitzGerald
Amy Gottlieb
Didi Khayatt
Mary Louise Noble
Lorie Rotenberg
Some of the women interviewed also appeared in Aerlyn Weissman and Lynne Fernie’s NFB-funded documentary Forbidden Love: The Unashamed Stories of Lesbian Lives. The 1992 film was out of print for many years until 2014, when the National Film Board released it in digital format.
Although the organizers of Lesbians Making History were committed to keeping the project a community-based initiative, and not one rooted in academic pursuit, they allowed Elise Chenier, now a professor at Simon Fraser University, to use the transcripts of the interviews for her MA thesis. Chenier’s work on lesbian bar culture in the 1950s and 60s is widely taught in Canadian universities. Interview material was also used by Cameron Duder and by Gary Kinsman and Patrizia Gentile.
In 2014 the original audio tapes were given to the CLGA via the LGBTQ Digital Oral History Collaboratory, a multi-institutional research project led by University of Toronto professor Elspeth Brown and funded by a 5-year SSRHC Insight grant.
Embedded at the Canadian Lesbian and Gay Archives (CLGA), Collaboratory members digitized LMH materials and created new verbatim transcriptions. Original LHM collective members assisted with editing transcripts, identifying key words and writing abstracts for each oral history interview.
Creator
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Lesbians Making History Collective
Date
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1985-1987, 2000
Coverage
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1950s to 1970s, 1985-1987
Rights
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CLGA holds non-exclusive rights
Contributor
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Maureen Fitzgerald; LGBTQ Oral History Digital Collaboratory (Elspeth Brown, PI)
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URL
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Oral History with Lois Stewart, 1985
Description
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Born in 1920, Lois Stewart is a political activist and retired schoolteacher who grew up in Victoria, British Columbia. After teaching in Victoria during World War 2, Lois moved to Southern Ontario, where she taught in a number of cities and towns outside of Toronto. At the time of the interview in 1985, Lois is 65 years old and living in Toronto. The interview’s themes and topics vary widely, spanning Lois’ life from roughly 1943 to 1985. She recounts her long- and short-term relationships with women her experiences in the Toronto lesbian bar culture, primarily around The Continental Hotel; her connection to and thoughts on socialism, feminism and the Co-Operative Commonwealth Federation/New Democratic Party; and her perspectives on lesbian and same-sex intimacy, sex, and love in the 1950s and 1960s.
Creator
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Lesbians Making History Collective
Date
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1985
Contributor
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Lesbians Making History Collective
LGBTQ Digital Oral History Collaboratory
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The CLGA does not hold copyright
Coverage
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1950 and 1960s, 1985
activism
feminism
lesbian
lesbian relationships
socialism
teacher
The Continental
Vancouver