October 20 Downsview, Ont. About […]

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1970-10-20

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October 20 Downsview, Ont. About thirty people attended the founding meeting of the York University Homophile Association (YUHA), held at Winters College. Roger Wilkes became the group's first president. This was the second homophile association formed at a Canadian University, YUHA sponsored discussion groups, guest speakers, a speakers bureau, movie nights, and a newsletter. The group changed its name to Gay Alliance at York (GAY) in 1975.

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Downsview

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Roger Wilkes

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York University Homophile Association YUHA, Gay Alliance at York GAY

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"York University Homophiles Work on Their Future," Guerilla 1 (February 1971): 20." York University Homophile Association (YUHA)" vertical file, Canadian Lesbian and Gay Archives, Toronto "In the Beginning...," York University Homophile Association Newsletter, November 1970, p. 1 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), entries 352, 1001 Linda Diebel, " 'You're Driven Underground and Then Pursued There': Homosexuals in Toronto," Toronto Telegram, metro night ed., 31 March 1971, p. 19

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