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The fonds contains documents that record the administration and activities of GLAUT (Gays and Lesbians at the University of Toronto) from its founding in 1976, to 1990. It includes records relating to the organization's administration, outreach activities, political efforts, and relationships with other local, national and international gay and lesbian groups. The fonds is composed of financial records, minutes, correspondence, newsletters, copies of U of T student publications and materials from other organizations.

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

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

The fonds contains records pertaining to the life of gay activist, teacher and writer, Bernard Courte. The records found in the fonds reflect aspects of Courte’s personal life, his career in education, and his fight for gay rights, french language rights, and for the rights of people living with HIV/AIDS. The majority of the records were created in Montreal or Toronto, and date from 1972 to 1991. The fonds has been arranged into the following 4 series: Personal Life, Teaching, Activism, and Subject Files. It contains correspondence, coursework, course material, articles penned by Courte, article drafts, meeting minutes, brochures, flyers, and clippings.

The fonds contains records pertaining to the duration of Michael Lynch’s life, including records on his personal, academic, and activist work. The fonds has been separated into nine series. Personal records include: childhood records, photographs, news clippings, correspondence, diaries, government documents, and care team notes. Academic records include: research notes and writing drafts, finished articles, poems, and shorts stories, class notes, and correspondence. Activist records includes: materials relating to groups which Lynch was a part of, such as organizational records, newsletters, and correspondence.

The fonds consists of correspondence, planning documents, press releases, memos, writing and publications, surveys, lectures, panels and community social events, reading materials, and records of political activism and activities undertaken or supported by Gays For Equality members, or by and for members of Winnipeg’s gay and lesbian community. The fonds also contain newsletters, zines, correspondence and notices from other Gay and Lesbian organizations in Manitoba, as well as Canada and internationally.

The fonds contains records that document the administration and activities of the Committee on Homophobia from its founding in 1989 to its disbanding in 1994. It includes records pertaining to its advocacy and outreach, its political activities and its educational efforts. The fonds is composed of the committee’s Constitution, correspondence, minutes, fliers, surveys, brochures, posters, and other material documenting the activities of the committee and other organizations.

The fonds contains administrative and operational records of The Woman’s Common of Metropolitan Toronto. The records date from 1984 to 1994, and reflect the establishment of the club in the mid 1980s, its administration, its membership and volunteer base, the management of the club’s restaurant and pub, and its outreach and promotional efforts. The fonds includes meetings minutes, budgets, financial statements, reports, proposals, correspondence, brochures, event flyers, menus, sign in sheets, mailouts and the Common Knowledge newsletter.

The fonds consist of records and artifacts maintained and accumulated by the Campaign for Equal Families. The fonds has been arranged into seven series: administrative files, campaign files, provincial meetings files, subject files, videocassettes, artifacts, and photographs. Included in the fonds are correspondence, memoranda, press releases, reports, essays and papers, forms, lists, agendas, newsletters, flyers, pamphlets, texts of legislative debates and bills, petitions, programmes, cards, newspaper clippings, financial records, notes, meeting minutes, invoices, an educational kit, offers to lease, grant application packages, an insurance policy, a speech, a videocassette, magnets, plaques, and photographs.

The records within this fonds pertain to the Coming Out Show, a Vancouver radio show. The fonds contains show notes, newspaper articles, cassette tapes, reel to reel audio tape, six scrapbooks, greeting cards, flyers, posters, photographs, correspondence, programme books, and notes. The records relate to the lives of those interviewed, as well as gay and lesbian life more broadly at the time in Vancouver, Canada at large, as well as at points internationally. David Myers’ partner Bill Houghton maintained the administrative and records management side of the show.

Fonds consist of records documenting the work and personal life of Harold Desmarais, LGBTQ advocate and organizer.

The fonds contains records relating to the life, work, and activism of Danny Cockerline dating from 1983 to 1997. It includes some personal records relating to his travels, his finances, and his estate. However, the majority of the records reflect Cockerline’s work for the Canadian Organization for the Rights of Prostitutes (CORP), Maggie’s and the Prostitutes’ Safe Sex Project, and the Sex Workers’ Alliance of Toronto (S.W.A.T). The fonds also includes some records from the Gay Men’s Health Crisis’ Hustler Network and some records relating to the personal life of David Pistilli. The fonds includes correspondence, address books, travel notes, clippings, reports, meeting minutes, operational manuals, bylaws, brochures and flyers, press releases, a petition and newsletters.

John Grube's tapes consist of 45 seperate interviews of gay men about their lives in pre-Stonewall Toronto, in addition to 33 transcripts of Foolscap interviews. These transcripts were produced by Grube in the 1980s as well. In general terms, Grube's interviews were designed to explore memories of early gay community in Toronto, before the era of gay liberation. Topics covered in the interviews include the contours of pre-Stonewall gay culture; initiation into the gay community and/or coming out; early sexual experiences and relationships; cruising; relations with psychiatry and psychology; bar culture and gay social spaces; interaction with police; bar raids; interpersonal relationships; first contact with gay liberationists/activists; membership in gay organizations; party scene amongst older gay men; struggles with depression and substance abuse; S/M and leather culture; drag; and employment. Because not all interview subjects grew up in Toronto, the interviews cover other locations as well, mostly in Ontario.
Lionel Collier's interviews, collected mostly in the same time frame as Grube's, cover similar topics. Notably, Lionel's interest was moreso in the narration of personal histories rather than broader social trends. These interviews occassionaly touched on health and the HIV/AIDS epidemic. Lionel also had a particular interest in gay liberation and responses to the Bathhouse Raids in Toronto. Many of Lionel's interviews discuss early sexual relationships. An interview with Lionel Collier from 1997 is also included in the fonds, as well as an interview conducted by the LGBTQ Oral History Digital Collaboratory's Elspeth Brown and Zohar Freeman with Lionel Collier in 2018.

The fonds consists of records that pertain to the life and career of William Atkinson. It documents Atkinson’s early life and work in England prior to his enlistment with the Royal Navy at the outbreak of the Second World War. It contains records from his immigration to Canada, as well records relating to his work in the restaurant and hospitality business upon his arrival. The fonds is also composed of records from his time with the Royal Canadian Navy (RCN) through the 1950s, and contains some material related to his forced retirement from the RCN on the basis of his sexual orientation. The fonds includes records from his return to the hospitality business, along with material from Atkinson’s writing and work in the entertainment business. The fonds is composed of correspondence, services records, certificates, photographs, press clippings, and short stories.

The fonds consists of records of an oral history project about lesbian lives in Toronto, conducted by members of the Lesbians Making History (LMH) Collective from 1985–1987, and in 2000. It was inspired by oral history projects of gay lives coming out of Buffalo, Boston and San Francisco. The collective interviewed 9 women about their experiences as ‘out’ lesbians in the 1950s, 60s, and 70s. The collective slogan, “We’re interested in older women,” reflected their interest in capturing rarely documented stories of lesbian life during the pre– Gay Liberation period. The LMH collective recorded interviews and their planning meetings on audio cassette tape, and kept a select record of paper documents related to their work.
The LGBTQ Digital Oral History Collaboratory, a SSHRC-funded project directed by Prof. Elspeth Brown from 2014-2019, collected, processed, and digitized this collection for the CLGA. The main people who worked on the project include: Elspeth Brown, Cait McKinney, and Rebecka Sheffield. The main person the Collaboratory worked with from LMH was Maureen Fitzgerald, an original member of the collective.

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.

Fonds consists of records created and maintained by David Pepper. Records relate to his involvement with the AIDS Committee of Ottawa and the Ottawa Police Service Liaison Committee for the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Communities, as well as his column “Q Period” that appeared in Capital Xtra!. The fonds also includes clipping files maintained by Pepper for research and reference purposes.

Fonds consists of records created and accumulated by John Alan Lee.

The fonds has been arranged into four series based on the types of record: scrapbooks, correspondence, publications and journals.

Records of the John Alan Lee fonds relate to his career as a professor of sociology, his personal life and social causes he supported or maintained an interest in.

The fonds contains records that reflect the life and work of Canadian broadcaster and novelist Shirley Shea dating from 1947 to 2003. The fonds consists predominantly of correspondence from her various publishers, pertaining to Shea’s mystery novels, licencing agreements, and royalties. It also includes promotional photographs of Shirley Shea, photographs of Shea working at a number of radio stations, and some personal photographs. The fonds also contains various editions of Shea’s novels: Victims: A Pound of Flesh, The Monarchs are Flying, Legal Tender, The Rabbit Hunter (Jagdtrieb in German), and a typescript of A Not So Gay World: Homosexuality in Canada.