September Toronto A chapter of the […]

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1975-09

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September Toronto A chapter of the Gay Academic Union (GAU) was officially formed at the University of Toronto. The first executives included Albert Gedraitis, John Alan Lee, Vicky Pullam, and R.T. Wallace. Dorothy Broderick and John Alan Lee had acted as Canadian contacts with the GAU in New York since 1974. An organizing committee (including Barry Adam, Clarence Barnes, John Alan Lee, Michael Lynch, and Jim Quixley) met in May 1975 to formulate goals, which included the "creation of a visible gay presence on campus, an end to discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation or gender, the promotion of gay studies and the improvement of library holdings on gay subjects." The Toronto GAU was seen as an independent group with fraternal ties to the GAU in the United States.

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University of Toronto Toronto

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Jim Quixley Michael Lynch Clarence Barnes Barry D. Adam Dorothy Broderick R.T. Wallace Vicky Pullam John Lee Albert Gedraitis

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Gay Academic Union University of Toronto

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"Towards Gay Education," Body Politic, no. 21 (1975), p. 4."News: Gay Academic Union Formed," Long Time Coming 3 (October 1975): 23;John A. Lee, "Gay Academic Union: Toronto Group Forms," Metro Community News 2 (30 May 1975): 1;"Gay Academic Union to End Sexism in School," Metro Community News 2 (October 1975): 1;" Gay Academic Union (Toronto)" vertical file, Canadian Lesbian and Gay Archives, Toronto;"Gay Academic Union," GAYtuk 1 (October 1975): 14;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 519;Mike Edwards, "U. of T. Academic Union Starts to Fight Discrimination," Varsity (Univ. of Toronto), 15 October 1975, p. 3;"Canadian Gay Academics Planning National Body," Body Politic, no. 19 (1975), p. 9;"Academics Organize," Gay Tide 2 (August 1975): 11;

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Vicky Pullam

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