We would like to thank all organizers of and participants in Wilde ’82. Special thanks to Alan Miller, organizer of Wilde ’82 and longtime volunteer at The ArQuives: Canada’s LGBTQ2+ Archives, for helping us access material traces of this history.

We would also like the thank the Office of the Dean of Arts, the Centre for Digital Humanities, and the Toronto Metropolitan University Libraries for their support in the development and launch of this exhibit.

Research Team

Dr. Jason Boyd, Associate Professor, Department of English, Toronto Metropolitan University

Dr. Craig Jennex, Assistant Professor, Department of English, Toronto Metropolitan University

Jillian Vandervoort, Research Assistant, Department of English, Toronto Metropolitan University

Nadia Ozzorluoglu, Research Assistant, Department of English, Toronto Metropolitan University

Advisory Group

Alan Miller, Community Historian and Volunteer, The ArQuives

Constance Crompton, Co-Director, Lesbian and Gay Liberation in Canada project

Tanis Franco, Archivist, Toronto Metropolitan University

Michelle Schwartz, Co-Director, Lesbian and Gay Liberation in Canada

Alison Skyrme, Special Collections Librarian, Toronto Metropolitan University

Fangmin Wang, Librarian, Toronto Metropolitan University

Sally Wilson, Web Services Librarian, Toronto Metropolitan University

Partners

The Centre for Digital Humanities at TMU