film-maker, multi-disciplinary artist and cultural activist, best known for her films which include the much-loved lesbian classic Forbidden Love: The Unashamed Stories of Lesbian Lives.
Executive Director of EGALE (Equality for Gays and Lesbians Everywhere); presented with a 'Heroes Award' by Metropolitan Community Church in 1996; named 'Gay Activist of the Year' by Capital Xtra in 2000.
writer, performance artist, activist involved in Little Sister's Book & Art Emporium court case against Canada Customs and the Canadian government, seeking to secure the fundamental rights of free expression for all Canadians.
artist, writer and filmmaker, who has been engaged with questions of sexism and racism.
social and community activist who has devoted her time, energy and imagination for over 25 years to lesbian, Jewish, queer, and artist-related causes.
filmmaker, videographer, writer; his films include Zero Patience and Lilies, both of which gained him an international following.
activist, pastor at Metropolitan Community Church of Toronto.
playwright, novelist, musician.
art curator, co-founder of University of Toronto Homophile Association in 1969, first openly gay organization in Canada, co-founder of Gays of Ottawa / Gais de l'Outaouais.
co-founder of Community Homophile Association of Toronto, the first community-based gay liberation group in Canada, and of Toronto Lambda Business Council; first openly gay person in Canada to run for public office.
founder of, and participant in, a staggering number of LGBT organizations in Toronto: Coalition for Services for Gay & Lesbian Youth, Gays & Lesbians in Health Care, Toronto Area Gays & Lesbians, HIV Mental Health Group, the AIDS Committee of Toronto, Positive Youth Outreach, the Lesbian & Gay Community Appeal; Executive Director of the Toronto People With AIDS Foundation at the time of his death
Montreal-based photographer, has established an international reputation as a photographer of the male nude.
singer, composer, actor, lesbian icon; the first mainstream celebrity in North America to come out publicly.
gay activist, French language activist, twenty year volunteer with Gays of Ottawa; author of Gays and the Law, founding member of the Coalition for Lesbian & Gay Rights in Ontario and the Canadian Lesbian & Gay Rights Coalition, recipient of the John Damien Award in 1992, past president of EGALE
John Alan Lee (1933 - )
First gay professional to come out on TV (1974); first chair of Gay Academic Union 1975; first chair Right to Privacy Committee; has nine books and over 300 articles published to date.
Bev Lepischak (1953 - )
1981 chair Toronto Counselling Center for Lesbians and Gays; made her mark on Jessie’s Centre for Teenagers, Women’s Counselling Referral and Education Centre, Central Toronto Youth Services and Supporting Our Youth (SOY); received Guelph University Lifetime Achievement Award for Sexuality Education in 1997, and the David Kelley Community Award in 2000.
physician, community organizer and human rights activist.
university professor, activist, writer, scholar, father and centerfold model.
writer and actor; author of the best-selling novel Fall On Your Knees.
writer, playwright, sculptor and visual artist.
member of collective that published the Body Politic, member of Right To Privacy Committee, founder of Simon Nkoli Anti-Apartheid Committee, co-founder of AIDS ACTION NOW; worked in Toronto schools doing anti-racism and anti-homophobia work with students for almost twenty years.
author of The Medusa Head, Lily Briscoe: A Self Portrait and In the Company of Strangers; artist who has had one-woman shows in Boston, New York, Paris and Montreal.
actor and writer.
curator, writer, poet and longtime gay and lesbian rights activist.
academic, arts writer, collector, champion of human rights in Saskatchewan; co-founder of Saskatoon's Gay Community Centre and the Gay Academic Union at the University of Saskatchewan
co-founder of first gay and lesbian troop of Scouts Canada.
artist and writer.
openly gay municipal politician in Ottawa.
co-founder of Community Homophile Association of Toronto, the first community-based gay liberation group in Canada; one of The Brunswick Four.
openly gay municipal politician, elected Mayor of Winnipeg.
educator, lawyer, provincial politician, member of the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal, Chief Commissioner of the Ontario Human Rights Commission.
Franco-Ontarian feminist, poverty issues activist, first openly-gay Human Rights Commissioner in Canada, president of EGALE in 1996.
songwriter, musician, anti-diva; leather and bondage images were the inspiration for her band "Rough Trade" formed in 1974; with her songs, Carole "seduced the nation's youth and struck a chord with young hinterland homos-to-be" across Canada.
member of the collective that published the Body Politic; president of Pink Triangle Press since 1975.