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October 15 Toronto A four-line […]
When
1969-10-15
Description
October 15 Toronto A four-line advertisement was placed in the Varsity, an undergraduate newspaper at the University of Toronto, by Jearld Moldenhauer, asking persons interested in starting a student homophile organization to call him. Moldenhauer, a research assistant at the University, had moved to Canada from the United States in January 1969. He had been an undergraduate at Cornell University when in the spring of 1967 he had helped to form the Cornell Student Homophile League, the second homophile group organized at an American University. Moldenhauer's advertisement in the Varsity was the spark for the first formal meeting on October 24, 1969, of the University of Toronto Homophile Association (UTHA), the first post-Stonewall gay organization in Canada and the first formed at a Canadian University. Over the next few years, Moldenhauer would be instrumental in founding several other pioneering Canadian gay organizations, including The Body Politic, Glad Day Bookshop, Toronto Gay Action, and the Canadian Gay Liberation Movement Archives. (see also October 24,1969.)
