November 17 Toronto About […]
When
1974-11-17
Description
November 17 Toronto About twenty-five people met at the CHAT centre to discuss the possibility of establishing the first Canadian chapter of Dignity, the group for lesbian and gay Roman Catholics. Jim Leitner of Dignity (Boston) addressed the group, reading Dignity's "statement of position and purpose." About fifteen people signed up to help organize the chapter, and Father Tim Ryan became the group's chaplain. Dignity Toronto began to meet at St. Cecilia's Church but by July 1975 had moved to Our Lady of Lourdes Church, 510 Sherbourne Street.
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Dignity TorontoCHAT CentreTorontoAll People
Tim RyanJim LeitnerAll Organizations
Dignity TorontoDignityAll Monograph
statement of position and purposeAll Citations
"Welcome to Dignity," Back/Chat 4 (22 November 1974): 5.Dave G. (Gunton) (interviewing Barry Blackburn), "Dignity/Toronto," Metro Community News 2 (7 February 1975): 2, 15;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 384;Dignity collection, 90—057, Canadian Lesbian and Gay Archives, Toronto;Barry B. (Blackburn), "10 years with Dignity: A Retrospective," Dignity/Dignité Toronto Newsletter, November 1984, pp. 4—5;
