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Chris Bearchell

Christine Bearchell

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Christine (Chris) Bearchell was one of the first six directors of the Canadian Lesbian and Gay Archives and held many important roles during Canada's liberation movement. In 1975 the Committee to Defend John Damien was established and Bearchell was chairperson. In June 1976 Toronto Gay Alliance Toward Equality (GATE) approved the formation of a lesbian caucus, and elected Bearchell as the first woman of its executive body. She contributed to a weekly column called "Dykes" in the Body Politic. Bearchell was one of five representatives who argued for the inclusion of sexual orientation protection in the proposed Charter of Human Rights and Freedoms. In 1981 she was awarded a certificate of appreciation for her civil rights work by Toronto Metropolitan Community Church.

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February 7 Toronto John Damien was […]September 13 Toronto A gay rights […]April 10 Toronto Lesbian activists […]June Toronto "Dykes," a column […]June 5 Toronto GATE (Toronto) […]February 7 Toronto About sixty […]March Toronto Chris Bearchell's […]January 3 Toronto The BPFPF and the […]March–April Toronto After its […]September 17 Hamilton "Straight […]March 13 Toronto The CGA was […]March 31 Toronto Five gay activists […]December 11 Ottawa Representatives […]September 25–26 Toronto MCC […]

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The Closet and the Umbrella Ontario Finally Says No: Human Rights Decade Ends Amid Angry Protest—and Some Relief Judge Suggests Dropping Charges as Not Guilty Pleas Clog Courts: Bawdy Politics Surprise Guilty Plea by Club Bath Head Legal Status of Found-ins in Doubt as Guilty Plea Ends Keepers' Case Gay Rights Bid Fails 7–4 Atlantic Region Meet Lifts Community Pride Cop's Reinstatement Overturned: Court of Appeal Chops Head Queen's Park to Debate Code, Gay Rights Protection Unlikely Critics Say Police Complaints Bill Has No Support from Community School Cancels Job after Artist Comes Out Gays of Ottawa Holds 10th Anniversary Fête Code Hearings Draw Many Pro-gay Briefs Night Walk in Park Ends in Police Station 'Beat That Queer': Hate Lit Spreads West Lesbian Pride March Is a First for Canada Gross Indecency Laws Claim Another Life Bureaucrats Scuttle Education Project Sticking with the Tories Until 1984: How the NDP Helped Premier Davis Outdo Ghenghis Khan Far Right Active in Election The Cops: Pressure Still On The Election in St George Riding: Hopping on the Gay Bandwagon Trading on Secrets: John and Rose in Homoland Strange Bedfellows?Judgment Delayed Til January 12 for 'Free the Flamingos' Accused Campbell Champions Parents Over Perverts Shoot-up in David Balfour Park: Cops Use Bullets to Arrest Five Going to Michigan? Beware of Customs A Wonderful Event The Road from Terror to Rage Murder and the Myth of Lesbian Rage Gay from Toronto to Thunder Bay Just Like Last Year: Cops Fail to Stop Violent Hallowe'en Mob Sperm Bank Not Accountable for Policy of Refusing Lesbians US Officials Harass Women in Defiance of New Policy: Keeping America Safe from Canadian Dykes Michigan Activists Forge Battle Plan for Last Push on Code Change Bar-hoping US Loosens Ban on Homosexual Aliens Damien Case: Minister Interferes, Government Agencies Collaborate 'Fired Because I'm a Homosexual': John Damien Interviewed Round One to Damien Gay Views: National Gay Rights Conference Lesbians and Gay Liberation: A Feminist Perspective Only Eunuchs Can Be Trusted This Is the Last 'Dykes' Column Jo-Jo's Picketed Lesbians Form Caucus Lesbians Plan Centre Alix Dobkin: Sorceress Woos, Doesn't Win, 'Rudest Audience Yet,'Dykes and the Ontario Election National Gay Conference The Wages of Disunity Bearchell & Trollope Reply Media Madness and Lesbian Images Le 15 octobre on manifeste Knowing Who Your Friends Are or Lesbian Images, Part II On the Offensive Dyke Detective Takes World by Storm Making It in the Murder Market: A Reason to Kill Is Canada's First Dyke Detective Novel Eve Zaremba Talks about Writing It Women against Anita Bryant Charlotte Bunch: The Lesbian Theorist and Former Separatist Fury Looks at the Role of Leadership, Civil Rights—and Men—in a New and Developing Feminism Just Give Them a Classy Looking Brief, and They'll Eat Out of Your Hand 'Due to the Fact You Being a Lesbian …,'Library Strike Vote; Gay Rights at Issue Out on the Prairies: Chris Bearchell Interviews Heather Bishop Review Perfecting the Story of NO, or, Pity the Believing Boy Window on Sewell The Cloak of Feminism

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Christine Bearchell papers, 83-016, Canadian Lesbian and Gay Archives, Toronto;

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