Tim McCaskell, who worked in Toronto schools doing
anti-racism and anti-homophobia work with students for almost twenty
years, is a long-time
AIDS activist. In 1988, he was a founding member of AIDS Action Now (AAN),
a group formed to raise the public's awareness of AIDS issues through
highly public actions and campaigns. In a 1996 letter to AAN supporters,
McCaskell explained why continued action was essential. He said: "We
need to tell the government that Canadians are concerned about AIDS. We
need to remind them that this epidemic is not over. We need to tell them
that now, as new treatments become available and there is once again hope
for a vaccine, it would be criminal to abandon our efforts and unnecessarily
lose more lives to this scourge."
1998
Archival data
| Subject: | McCaskell, Tim |
| Accession #: | 152 |
| Accession year: | 1998 |
| Artist: | Steven
Dwayne Bryk  |
| Date: | 1998 |
| Medium: | digital image / print |
| Dimensions: | 18.5 x 28cm (W x H) |