Interview with Michael Hendricks & René Leboeuf, discussing AIDS and La Committee sur la Violance
HIV/AIDS, Marriage Equality, Police Brutality
This video is an excerpt from an interview with Michael Hendricks & René Leboeuf (2004-07-30), discussing topics such as AIDS, ACT-UP, Sex Garage; police violence against gays and lesbians; La Committee sur la Violance; and their case for equal marriage in Quebec.
Nancy Nicol
Clip is original footage for documentary series, From Criminity to Equality, including Stand Together (2002), The Queer Nineties (2009), Politics of the Heart (2005) and The End of Second Class (2006), Produced and Directed by Nancy Nicol. http://www.yorku.ca/nnicol/documentary.html
1990s, 2004-07-30
Copyright held by Nancy Nicol
.mov
English
Moving image
2016-074
Quebec, 2004-07-30, 1990s
Pride and Resistance 1977-1981
Gay Liberation History, demonstrations
Clip is an edited selection of primary source images, documents, and videos of the Pride movement in Toronto during the late 1970's, featuring rallies, protests, and marches against anti-gay activist Anita Bryant, police violence, and anti-gay legislation. Speakers include Gerald Hannon, Chris Bearchell, John Sewell, and Reverend Dr. Brent Hawkes.
Nancy Nicol
1977-1981, 2007
Copyright held by Nancy Nicol
Clip is original footage for shorts series, "Pride and Resistance," directed and produced by Nancy Nicol.
.mp4
English
Moving image
2016-074
Toronto, 1977-1981
Interview with Phillip
night life
baths
gay men
police
police violence
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 relationship to the gay community, and details the physical and verbal violence of the police that he witnessed on the night of the raids. He then discusses the trials and aftermath of the arrests.
1982-11-07
Cassette Tape
English
Interview with Jack
night life
baths
gay men
police
police violence
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 role in the community, and the events of the night of the raids and their aftermath.
1982-08-02
Cassette Tape
English
The Body Politic on Trial with Michael Lynch
gay liberation
press
police raids
censorship
homophobia
pedophilia
Michael Lynch reflects on the 1979 police raid of the <em>Body Politic </em>offices 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, freedom of the press, and Anita Bryant's visit to Toronto. Narrated by Frank Harrad.
Interview with a found-in from the 1981 Bathhouse Raids
gay men
bars
night life
public sex
baths
cruising
vice squad
police
police raids
An interview by Michael Lynch with an anonymous man, age 41, who was arrested during the bathhouse raids.
Tape one (56 mins) covers his early life in Hamilton, coming out and family life, marriage to a woman, life in Hamilton, and gay life in Toronto from the 1950s including bars, cruising locations, and casual sex.
Tape two (56 mins) covers the barracks and other bathhouses in Toronto, and details his experiences on the night of the raids, as well as the aftermath including rallies and activities of the Gay Community Appeal.
Michael Lynch
1981-03-07
Cassette Tape
English
Oral History with Jeanne Healy, Lois Stuart, and Jackie, 1985
This interview begins as a conversation between Lois, a retired schoolteacher and activist in Southern Ontario, and Jeanne, a retired secretarial worker and activist. Partway through the interview, Jackie enters and dominates much of the discussion. Jackie was born in 1934 in Sudbury, Ontario to a large French and Native family. As a teenager, she ran away to Toronto multiple times. Following a marriage at 16, she moved to Toronto for a number of years, where she became part of the lesbian bar scene at The Continental Hotel. Jackie would have been considered a downtowner and a rounder, having spent time in and out of the Don Jail throughout her life. The majority of the interview concerns her coming out process as a butch; her work as a pickpocket and later a heroin dealer; her experiences of violence in the Lesbian bar scene; as well as her relationships with women, one of which was with an aspiring Hollywood starlet. The interview is framed by a larger conversation about police harassment, books published in the fifties featuring gay and lesbian characters, and Jeanne and Lois’ involvement in the Women’s Movement.
Lesbians Making History Collective
1985
Lesbians Making History Collective
LGBTQ Digital Oral History Collaboratory
The CLGA does not hold copyright
oral history
1950s to 1970s, 1985