September 19 Toronto Elgin Blair […]
When
1971-09-19
Description
September 19 Toronto Elgin Blair organized the first gay fellowship discussion group held at the First Unitarian Congregation, 175 St. Clair Avenue W. Ten to fifteen people attended subsequent meetings, held on Sunday evenings. The fellowship met until May 1972, by which time Blair's energy was increasingly taken up by the Gay Caucus of the Unitarian Universalist (U.U.) Association.
All Places
First Unitarian ChurchTorontoAll People
E.F.B. (Elgin F. Blair)All Organizations
Gay Caucus, Unitarian ChurchGay Fellowship Discussion Group, First Unitarian Congregation Social Action CommitteeAll Citations
"News of Gay Activities Across the Continent: Toronto, Ontario," U.U. Gay Caucus Newsletter 2 (February 1972): 4.Margaret Fulford, ed.. The Canadian Women's Movement, 1960–1990: A Guide to Archival Resources/Le mouvement canadien des femmes, 1960–1990: guide de ressources archivistiques (Toronto: Canadian Women's Movement Archives/ECW Press, 1992), entry 513;Elgin Blair papers, 84-011, Canadian Lesbian and Gay Archives, Toronto;Elgin Blair, "Gay Caucus: Unitarian Universalist Gays," Body Politic, no. 2 (1972), pp. 16, 19;
