Records consist of oral history interviews, their raw files from both cameras used (the one focused on the interviewee and the one focused on the photos being discussed), edited and redacted film content. The records also pertain to the photos donated, these are largely photos that are born-digital or scanned photos and records.
The Family Camera NetworkThe 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.
Egale CanadaThe fonds consists of records created by the CGSL executive committee. The fonds includes textual records created by the CGSL executive committee regarding the organization of regular-season softball games, social events and post-season tournaments. Records include meeting minutes, election materials, team schedules, correspondence, financial information, posters, photographs and moving images. The majority of the records pertain to the activities carried out in Toronto, but some of the records pertain to tournaments held throughout the United States.
Cabbagetown Group Softball LeagueThis fonds consists of records of the Gay Alliance Toward Equality (Vancouver). Included in the fonds are administrative files, correspondence, briefs, publications, financial records, meeting minutes, organization and event files, subject files, photographs, posters, an audio cassette tape, and objects such as stamps and GATE office signs.
Contains series and subseries:
1- GATE (Vancouver) Administrative files
1.1 Office administration
1.2 Financial records
1.3 Meeting minutes
1.4 Office artifacts
2- Organization and event files
2.1 Canadian organizations
2.2 International organizations
3- Subject files
4- Photographs
5- Posters
6- Audio cassette tape
Fonds consists of records documenting the activities of the Gay and Lesbian Alliance at Stanford (GLAS), previously the Gay People’s Union at Stanford. The records also document gay and lesbian events at the University and in the San Francisco region. The records in the fonds were maintained by Gerard Koskovich, a volunteer with the GLAS Archives Project. The fonds consists of duplicates of organizational records housed at the Stanford University Archives, as well as material collected by Koskovich during the time he was actively involved at Stanford University (1980-1987). Included are: correspondence, notices and flyers, research papers, press clippings, financial records, application forms, brochures, and other textual material.
Gay and Lesbian Alliance at StanfordFonds consists of the records of the Gay and Lesbian Organization of Bell Employees (GLOBE). The majority of the records in the fonds appear to have been maintained by Carl Miller, one of the founders of the organization. Records in the fonds document the organization’s fight for same-sex spousal benefits for employees of Bell Canada, including its filing of a formal complaint against Bell Canada with the Canadian Human Rights Commission. The fonds serves as an example of the struggle for same-sex equality in a corporate environment. Records in the fonds also document meetings of the organization, the work of several committees, as well as the social and fundraising aspects of the organization. Included in the fonds are administrative files, scrapbooks, photographs, and an audio cassette. The fonds also includes one sous-fonds, containing records relating to Carl Miller.
Gay and Lesbian Organization of Bell Employees (GLOBE)Records from the G.L.A.R.E. organization, consisting of minutes, financial documents, correspondence, discussion papers, questionnaires, handouts and flyers, newspaper clippings, briefs addressing the Toronto City Council, as well as hate literature that was distributed by “Positive Parents of Ontario”. The records begin at the start of 1981, with the most recent record dating mid-1985. The questionnaires were endorsed/distributed by the groups Lesbians Against the Right (L.A.R.) and Right to Privacy Committee (R.T.P.C.), involving the 1982 city elections, and also contain the responses.
Gays and Lesbians Against the Right Everywhere (GLARE)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.
Gays and Lesbians at the University of TorontoThe 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.
Gays for EqualityFonds consist of records documenting the work and personal life of Harold Desmarais, LGBTQ advocate and organizer.
Desmarais, HaroldThe fonds consists of records relating to Lenskyj’s involvement with the Toronto Board of Education and research in the areas of sexuality, gender, sports, AIDS, health and sex education, and homophobia. Included in the fonds are correspondence, memoranda, reports, notes, pamphlets, newspaper and magazine clippings, press coverage on Gay Games, research papers, resources and information on sexual health mainly for youth and parents, and other textual records. Records also document her involvement in addressing and challenging homophobia and other LGBTQ issues in the Toronto school system through projects and organizations such as Project Affirmation, a research project of the Coalition for Lesbian & Gay Rights in Ontario (CLGRO) looking into the health care and social service needs of sexual minorities in Ontario, Status of Women Committee, and Education Against Homophobia. Other materials included in the fonds are buttons, videocassettes, audiocassettes, optical disks, and a photograph.
Lenskyj, HelenThe 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.
James EganThe 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.
Kathleen BrindleyThe fonds consists of correspondence, financial records, meeting minutes, membership lists, grand applications, notes, drafts of Khush Khayal, press coverage, newspaper clippings and articles, photographs, slides, posters, and banners. The fonds contains five series: Khush administrative files, organizations and events files, Khush Khayal files, photographs, and objects.
Khush: South Asian Gay Men of TorontoFonds consists of records created and maintained by Kyle Rae, a former city councillor in the City of Toronto. Included in the fonds are personal records, photographs, and records relating to the annual conferences of the International Network of Lesbian and Gay Officials.
Kyle RaeThe 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 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.
LGBT Youth LineThe fonds contains the records of the McMaster Homophile Association from its establishment in 1973 until its disbandment in 1977. The records of the Congeniality Social Club and other related organizations are also included.
McMaster Homophile AssociationThe fonds consists of materials related to Mirha-Soleil Ross’ time living in Toronto, from the early 1990s until 2008, and include published work and drafts in multiple formats, correspondence, press materials, notes, financial records, and clippings. These materials document several aspects of Ms. Ross’ life and work, including her activism, art-practice, community outreach, sex work, and interviews, as well as representing the type of media she herself was consuming and which in turn informed her work. Records are mostly focused on Toronto, Montreal, and Canada.
Mirha- Soleil RossThe fonds contains materials relating to Nancy Nicol’s work as a documentary filmmaker and activist. There are raw moving image and audio footage used in the making of documentary films. Also included are Nicol’s finalized full-length films and shorts. The fonds consists of a significant amount of research material as well as administrative work relating to film production, distribution, and publicization. Nicol’s film work is divided into two large sections, clearly distinguished in the fonds: Nicol’s earlier work focussed on LGBT rights and history largely in Canada, and her later work on the Envisioning Global LGBT Human Rights project.
Nancy Nicol