Poster encouraging women to seek advice and information about AIDS.
Creator
The AIDS Committee of Toronto (ACT)
Source
OPIRG archive
Date
1992
Contributor
Simon Vickers
Rights
The AIDS Committee of Toronto
Coverage
Family Services Association of Metropolitan Toronto, 925 Albion Road, Toronto
Context
The poster was created by The AIDS Committee of Toronto: Women and AIDS Project and suggest that people seek this information at the Family Services Association of Metropolitan Toronto
Article on Fifth Column from Eye Magazine written by Gemma Files.
Creator
Gemma Files
Source
Personal collection
Date
1992-06
Contributor
Hal Kelly
Format
JPEG
Type
magazine article
Context
Fifth Column talks about their nature ("we're nothing if not inconsistent"), the difficulty getting acknowledgement for their work (still happening today believe it or not), plus an amusing game of "what if?" involving celebrity deaths.
Upcoming gigs at the 1992 Lesbian & Gay Pride Day and a defunct Queen Street Club are referenced.
Interviewer
Gemma Files
Interviewee
G.B. Jones & Caroline Azar
Original Format
paper
Duration
2 minutes to read, endless hours to re-quote favourite lines from it. ("We wanted to make a noise as big as our hair").
Events and initiatives include: a banner signing event, the distribution and completion of a survey, the formation of a coalition, the creation of a fact sheet, applying for a permit to temporarily close St. George Street, and conducting various research projects.
Ed the Happy Clown Definitive Edition Launch Party at The Beguiling
Description
Flyer advertising the launch party of the Definitive Edition of Chester Brown's "Ed the Happy Clown" featuring special guests Seth & Joe Matt as part of the 5th Anniversary Celebration at The Beguiling.
Creator
The Beguiling
Source
Hall Kelly Collection
Date
1992-06-13
Contributor
Hal Kelly
Rights
The Beguiling
Format
JPEG
Type
flyer
Coverage
The Beguiling, 601 Markham Street (R.I.P.), Toronto.
Context
Part of The Beguiling's 5 Anniversary Celebration.
A final report for the Environmental Priorities Project funded by OPIRG-Toronto and the Environmental Youth Corps, entitled "Composting at the University of Toronto."
Creator
Tullio Bugada
Source
OPIRG Archive
Date
1992
Contributor
Tam Rayan
Rights
OPIRG-Toronto
Coverage
OPIRG-Toronto, 455 Spadina Avenue, Toronto Ontario, M5S 2G8
Context
The project, implemented from May to August 1992, researched how to use composting as a means to divert the University of Toronto's organic waste and developed a framework of information to promote composting initiatives. The final report was compiled by Tullio Bugada but the project was implemented collectively by an OPIRG summer working group.
About 2 years after I arrived in Toronto having deserted Thatchers England for a better life, I began playing in the 2 bands that undoubtedly saved my literal life at the time, by providing an outlet and something to lose myself in, during a very turbulent and intense period of adjustment to my new surroundings and it's accompanying pile of devastating setbacks, because wherever you go there you are.
Music was my girlfriend.
Initially The Nina Hagen Das rehearsed in my garage at 778 Crawford Street (The Dyke House), with Mourning Sickness rehearsing 2 doors down at Kathedral B (The Anarchist House). We could hear each other rehearsing on what was otherwise, a quite traditionally "older European family" street! My first friendship at Kathedral B was with one of their fierce, scrappy, old tom cats "Rex" - before meeting the reamaining occupants and eventually sharing the Kathedral B rehearsal space.
Gary Monster was an artist involved in the queer punk scene in Toronto. A review in Trash Compactor (Vol. 2, #6, Summer 1992) says, "GARY MONSTER MAGAZINE (311 Palmerston Blvd., Bsmt., Tor., Ont., M6G 2N5) A mixed bag of cut and paste craziness. Focused on monsters (Universal horror flicks) musclemen, comic art (Bill Ward, Tom of Finland) Betty Page and Batman. Fun and frivolity for all. "
Poster for International Women's Day, 1991, in Toronto.
Creator
March 8th Coalition
Source
Collection of Colin Hinz and Catherine Crockett
Date
1992-03-08
Contributor
Simon Vickers
Rights
March 8th Coalition
Format
PDF
Type
poster
Coverage
Station P, Toronto, On, M5S2S7
Context
The slogan of the poster says "Women say stop the racist war from Oka to the Gulf." On the back there is a list of events taking place between March 6th and 8th.
Promotional flyer for then-new Exclaim! Magazine and its launch party at The Opera House.
Creator
Exclaim! Magazine
Source
Hal Kelly Collection
Date
1992-03-21
Contributor
Hal Kelly
Rights
Exclaim! Magazine
Format
JPEG
Type
Flyer
Coverage
The Opera House, 735 Queen Street East
Context
What's it all about baby? Promo package for the then spankin' new Exclaim! Magazine in anticipation of its launch party at The Opera House. Still going strong 25+ years later!
Featuring musical entertainment provided by Bob Wiseman, Dinner is Ruined, Saturnalia, Morbidox, The Ten Commandments, The Lawn and others. [HK]
OPIRG-Toronto, 455 Spadina Avenue, Toronto Ontario, M5S 2G8
Context
In 1991, the OPIRG-Toronto Board considered taking action on aspects of the elections/referendum procedure, but instead decided to focus their attention upon serving their graduate and part-time student base.
OPIRG Toronto, 455 Spadina Avenue, Toronto Ontario, M5S 2G8
Context
OPIRG Toronto proposed to define and act on environmental concerns within the City of Toronto by researching water conservation, refillable bottle legislation, advocacy for bicycles as transportation, and the reduction of pesticides.
Letter to the editor about no cars on St. George campaign.
Creator
Elizabeth Amer, Gordon Cressy, OPIRG Board of Directors, Peter Guo, UTEC, Ceta Ramkhalawansingh, Environmentalists Plan Transportation, Joan Dorion, Anne Hansen, University College Literary and Athletic Society