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The fonds details the activities of Brindley’s life, with a particular focus from the 1970s on. The core of the collection is Brindley’s art career, with art works, image slides, photographs, and ephemera of her own work as well as that of her friend, queer Toronto artist Bruce Eakin.

Items relating Videofag, a queer arts space located in Kensington Market, Toronto, Ontario, and run by Jordan Tannahill and William Ellis from 2012-2016. Items relate to the business of running Videofag and the art events held there from 2012-2016. Principle documentary forms being advertisements, correspondence, artwork, and posters.

The fonds contains administrative and operational records of Egale Canada, that document the activities of the organization dating from its inception in 1986 to 2007. It includes material pertaining to the organization’s administration, its political advocacy work, its legal interventions, research and its public education efforts surrounding LGBTQ+ rights and issues in Canada. It is comprised of minutes, reports, correspondence, research papers, briefs, legal documentation, promotional material and resources.

The James Egan fonds contains records relating to his life and activism work from the early 50s to his memorial service in 2000. John Nesbit is also featured in subtle yet evident ways. There are newspaper clippings, correspondence with newspaper editors, other activists, academics, and other LGBTQ+ individuals, as well as serials, drafted articles for newspaper and tabloid publication, and various iterations of his court case with his partner John Nesbit. There are records of Egan’s environmental activism and of the time he spent in the Merchant Navy. There are photos relating to both Nesbit and Egan, their families, childhoods, and lives together. Poetry, fiction, a dream journal, cards, diaries and other such material recording Egan’s personal life and his life with Nesbit dot the fonds.

The fonds consists of the personal records of Jade Pichette. This includes personal journals, workshop materials, photographs, artifacts/ephemera, books, periodicals, A/V material, and personal papers. There is also A/V Oral History material which was conducted as part of the Family Camera Network, as well as Digital Photographs from the project.

The fonds consists of the records created by Bearchell during two decades of her work in gay activism. This includes her work with two publications: The Body Politic (TBP), Canada’s gay liberation newspaper, from 1976-1987, and her work with Epicene in 1987, a gay publication following the end of TBP. The fonds also includes her work with other organizations, most notably the Coalition for Gay Rights in Ontario (CGRO), the Committee to Defend John Damien, and the Young Socialists/League for Socialist Action. There is correspondence, research notes, notebooks, news clippings, manuscripts, newsletters, reports, press releases, research articles, and inter-office memos.

The fonds consists of records documenting the personal life and career of Carl Miller, particularly his role as a gay father and his activities as a Trustee with the Toronto Board of Education.

The fonds contains administrative and operational records produced by the Toronto Centre for Lesbian and Gay Studies produced throughout its decade in operation. In addition to financial records and correspondence related to the logistics of the Centre itself, the fonds includes records regarding the Centre’s many outreach activities, such as the publication of CentreFold (stylized as Centre/Fold), the newsletter released by the Centre and distributed to its members and other partners, the Michael Lynch Grant and other awards sponsored by the Centre, and Queer Exchange, the series of educational courses sponsored by the Centre and open to the broader community. The fonds is composed of textual records relating to the Centre and its programs, posters and stickers from various events sponsored by the Centre, photographs used for the publication of CentreFold, and electronic financial records.

Contains series:
1- Administration and publications
2- Awards and grants
3- Events
4- Research and resources

The fonds contains the administrative records of LGBT Youth Line dating from 1993 to 2017. It documents the organization’s operations, its outreach and fundraising efforts, and its involvement in special projects, events and conferences throughout the province of Ontario. It includes reports, minutes, newsletters, posters, correspondence, certificates and awards.

The fonds contains notebooks kept by managers of Doll & Penny’s Cafe in Vancouver, British Columbia between 1987 and 1991.

The fonds includes administrative material from the Oscar Wilde Memorial Society including board and committee meeting minutes, correspondence, newsletters, and financial reports from Giovanni’s Room, as well as flyers, notices, and tickets from social events held by the Society.

The fonds contains organizational records that document the administration and activities of the University of Toronto Homophile Association from its founding in 1969, to its disbanding in 1973. It includes records pertaining to the Association’s governance, its outreach and educational efforts, political advocacy, research projects and relationships with other Canadian homophile associations, women’s liberation and gay liberation groups. The fonds is composed of minutes, flyers, newsletters, brochures, correspondence, briefs, questionnaires, material collected on other organizations.

The Community Homophile Association of Toronto fonds is composed of organizational records that document CHAT’s governance and administration, its community outreach efforts, education, support services, political advocacy, and its resource library. It includes bylaws and minutes, financial statements, grant applications, membership cards and applications, telephone logs, flyers, newsletters, briefs, correspondence, and resources collected on various subjects and homophile and gay liberation groups from across North America.

The fonds contains records related to the Pride and Remembrance Association and its annual pride run. The fonds has been divided into 9 series. Textual records include internal documents, correspondence, financial records, meeting materials, materials from community groups, press releases, news clippings, and event day items including permits and applications, volunteer lists, and participant lists. Other items in the fonds includes, photographs of the run, posters promoting the run, news coverage and video footage of the run, artifacts from the event day, and digitized copies of the photographs and moving images.

The fonds includes scripts by members of the Lavender Shorts Collective. The scripts belonged to lighting director Jane Smith and are marked with lighting cues. The productions are Danger: Anger (June 1985) and Labour Pains: A Series of Skits and Speakers on the Subject of Lesbians & Work (March 17, 1986). Both were performed at the Theatre Centre (296 Brunswick Ave., Toronto). The fonds also includes the lighting design and program for Danger: Anger.

The fonds contains the records of James Fraser, consisting of personal correspondence, articles by Fraser primarily about gay archives and history, newspaper articles about Fraser’s gay activism, a collection of historical editorials about homosexuality compiled by Fraser, and miscellaneous records pertaining to Fraser’s life and organizations with which he was involved. The fonds also includes obituaries and memorials for Fraser. While most of the records pertain to Toronto, his academic work was done in British Columbia, and some records relate to his early life and family in New Brunswick. The collected editorials are drawn from Canadian newspapers.

The fonds contains the records of the Pink Type typesetting collective from its incorporation in 1978 until its dissolution in 1983.

The fonds contains the records of the League for Socialist Action/Ligue Socialiste Ouvrière (LSA-LSO) from 1971 to 1979. Also included are bulletins published in the United States by the Socialist Workers Party (SWP).

The fonds contains the records of Gays and Lesbians Aging (GALA) from 1984 to 1990.