Tim McCaskell

Tim McCaskell

Country

Canada

Birth - Death

1952 -

Occupation

Activist

Description

Member of a number of gay organizations, and advocate of race, class, and sexual rights in Canada. Noted for his work with Aids activism, and founder of AIDS ACTION NOW! Member of The Body Politic collective. Author of several books, including 'Race to Equity: Disrupting Educational Inequality' and 'Queer Progress: From Homophobia to Homonationalism' (2016). Member of the Ontario Working Group on Criminal Law and HIV Exposure and of the Community Council for the Triangle Program, Canada’s only public school program for LGBTQ youth. He received the City of Toronto Award of Merit for his human rights work (1996).

See Also

• Global LGBTQ HIV/AIDS Activists
• School Teachers, Researchers and Education Staff Who Identify as LGBTQ

Further Reading/Research

• http://www.clga.ca/npc/subject/61
• http://www.dailyxtra.com/toronto/news-and-ideas/news/thirty-five-years-the-bathhouse-raids-tim-mccaskell-184929
• https://www.thestar.com/news/insight/2015/06/27/before-pride-there-was-a-kiss-toronto-gay-activists-look-back-on-1976-protest.html

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