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Oral History with Betty Burrows & Shirley Shea, 1987
Betty was born on a farm just outside in Sydney, Australia and Shirley was born in Sudbury in 1924. The two meet in Toronto in the 1960s, where they were apart of the lesbian bar scene that gravitated around The Continental. At the time of the…
Oral History with Eve Zaremba, 1986
Eve Zaremba was born in Poland in 1930. The Second World War displaced her family to Scotland and England, where she was sent to a boarding school in Reading until the age of 15. Zaremba leaves school in 1945 and moves with her family to Southern…
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 Gale Comin
Interview with Gale Comin, a lesbian from Calgary who discusses her involvement with Calgary's gay political scene and how it changed over the last decade. She discusses the Imperial Court of the Chinook Arch and the Gay Information Resource Centre,…
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…
Interview with David Allandyle
Oral history interview with a gay man, David, completed as part of the Foolscap project.
David, a 60 year old gay man at the time of the interview, discusses his long-term relationships and friendships in Toronto after World War II. He came out in…
David, a 60 year old gay man at the time of the interview, discusses his long-term relationships and friendships in Toronto after World War II. He came out in…
Interview with Del Newbigging
In this oral history interview, Del Newbigging, 50 years old, discusses his experience with psychiatric therapy, marriage counselling, and sex therapy, as well as his constant thought of committing suicide before coming to terms with his sexuality…
Oral History Interview with Elgin Blair and Richard Brown (1983)
In this oral history interview Elgin Blair and Richard Brown discuss their lives in Toronto as gay men. The interview begins with Elgin (58 years old) commenting on his coming out experience, his puritanical upbringing, his struggle to accept his…
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Oral History Interview with Frederick Sproule (1983)
In this oral history interview Frederick Sproule, 88 years old, discusses his life as a gay man in Toronto from the early twentieth century onwards. The interview begins with Sproule describing his coming out experience when he was 18 and lived in…