activist promoting acceptance for queer youth and racial tolerance by Toronto Board of Education.
dyke dynamo; member of the Body Politic Collective; co-founder of the Lesbian Organization of Toronto (LOOT); founding member of the Coalition for Lesbian & Gay Rights in Ontario; Chair of the Committee to Defend John Damien
Canadian Nova Scotia activist, lobbied the Government of Nova Scotia for the inclusion of sexual orientation as a prohibited grounds for discrimination in the Nova Scotia Human Rights Act.
long-time Toronto gay activist; member of the Body Politic Collective for ten years; fundraiser, educator and community activist with the AIDS Committee of Toronto from 1986-1993; creator of the outstanding website www.rbebout.com
, which contains a collection of his memoirs.
visual artist and writer whose work has focused on lesbian sex and sexual representation, disability culture, and the mental illness system.
poet, novelist and theorist; born in Montreal, she has been a leading figure in post-modern writing since 1965, making issues of gender and language central to Quebec poetics.
acclaimed playwright, cultural producer, art slave, performer, "punk iconoclast".
activist, educator and writer who fought tenaciously for the French language and gay & lesbian rights; early champion of AIDS awareness in Quebec and Ontario.
community organizer and volunteer extraordinaire since 1970 in Windsor and Toronto; founding member of the Coalition for Lesbian & Gay Rights in Ontario; member of the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence; winner of the Lesbian & Gay Community Appeal's Outstanding Community Achievement and Outstanding Volunteer Service Awards; best known as one of the 'fruits' in Fruit Cocktail
C. M. Donald (1950 - )
Published poet and author; initiated the Cambridge Lesbian Line in England; falling in love brought her to Canada in 1980 where she worked with the Coalition for Lesbian and Gay Rights in Ontario (CLGRO), at York University with the status of women, employment equity, and the women’s studies library.
army officer fired for being a lesbian; she sued for unjust dismissal and won; president of the Foundation for Equal Families.
John Duggan (1949 - )
One of the most influential individuals in the early gay liberation movement in Canada; President of GO (Gays of Ottawa); became the first full time employee of a gay and lesbian organization in Canada; founding member of Ottawa’s Abiwin Housing Co-op.
lesbian, singer and personality, proprietor of the Music Room, one of the first lesbian and gay clubs in Toronto during the 1960's.
pioneer in the struggle for gay and lesbian rights in Canada, activist since 1949, known for his nearly fifty-year relationship with Jack Nesbit and for their 1995 Supreme Court challenge, in which they used the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms to challenge the discriminatory exclusion of same-sex couples from pension benefits under the Old Age Security Act.
Two-Spirited actor, singer, and community activist.