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Rage & Desire Film and Video Program
Film program surveying Canadian and international HIV/AIDS activist video produced in 1994 at the Pacific Cinematheque in Vancouver
Video Guide - World AIDS Day Issue - Vol 10, No 3-4, Issue 48
The Satellite Video Exchange Society (now VIVO, incorporated 1973) was the first video exchange library, and one of the earliest international video centres and Canadian artist-run centres. Its founding mandate was to facilitate international…
Art and AIDS: Representing a Crisis (Rites June 1989)
A recap of recent debates spurred by exhibitions and conferences discussing art, activism, and HIV/AIDS in Canada and the US.
SIDART Postcard Invitation
Bilingual program for the arts and culture program entitled SIDART organized by Ken Morrison at the V International AIDS Conference in Montreal. This was the first time a cultural component was included at the bi-annual International HIV/AIDS…
SIDART Program
Bilingual program for the arts and culture program entitled SIDART organized by Ken Morrison at the V International AIDS Conference in Montreal. This was the first time a cultural component was included at the bi-annual International HIV/AIDS…
AIDS ACTION NOW! Poster - "Women Get AIDS Too!"
An AIDS ACTION NOW! poster for the World AIDS Day demonstration in Toronto in 1990, that asks why women with AIDS don't get the services they need.
Cinema and the Sex Trade: An Interview with Gwendolyn
An interview with Gwendolyn about her artistic work, including her activism with the Prostitutes' Safe Sex Project that inspired her short film Prowling By Night (1990).
The Half and Half Show - Program
Detailed program from Maggie's first ever fundraiser, a cabaret show featuring Gwendolyn's 'Merchants of Love' performance and others.
The Half and Half Show - Brochure
Brochure advertising Maggie's first ever fundraiser, a cabaret show featuring Gwendolyn's 'Merchants of Love' performance and others.
Ex-Hooker Helps Open 'Merchants of Love' Show - Newspaper article
A newspaper article reviewing the opening of Gwendolyn's (Canadian Organization for the Rights of Prostitutes) sex worker-themed theatrical production 'Merchants of Love' at Ottawa's SAW Gallery
Prostitutes Protesting Crackdown - Newspaper Article
Toronto sex work activists point out that there is an anti-prostitution crackdown happening in their city just prior to the G7 economic summit being held in late June of 1988. Includes quote from Valerie Scott from the Canadian Organization for the…
Prostitutes Jailed Unfairly, Groups Say & 'Condom Patrols,' Threats Cited at Hearing - Newspaper articles
Two articles regarding prostitution that appeared in the Globe and Mail in 1987. Both articles are in reference to the impact of C-49, the criminalization of communication for the purposes of prostitution. Valerie Scott and Gillian Ridgerson of the…
Response to Toronto Star Journalist Frank Jones - CORP Statement
A response to Toronto Star journalist Frank Jones' November 30th 1987 article "Cabbagetown residents right to harass prostitutes" who argued against the legalization of prostitution. CORP's statement agrees with him in that they think prostitution…
Prostitution Crack Down - CORP Press Release
In response to a local production of Alexander Galin's "Stars in the Morning Sky," a theatrical production about street cleanups just prior to the Moscow Summer Olympics in 1980, Toronto sex work activists point out the same thing is happening in…
Cabbagetown Gentrification and Anti-prostitution Measures - CORP Letter to Ian Scott, Attorney General
Letter on behalf of the Canadian Organization for the Rights of Prostitutes regarding gentrification and anti-prostitution measures taken in the Cabbagetown neighbourhood of Toronto.
The Case Against C-49 - CORP Position Statement
Position statement on C-49 (communicating for the purposes of prostitution) criminal code amendment aimed at curbing street based prostitution through criminalization by the Canadian Organization for the Rights of Prostitutes. Briefly mentions HIV in…
Final Report on Establishing the Prostitutes' Safe Sex Project (PSSP) Resource Centre
A lengthy and wide-ranging report to Health and Welfare Canada on the work done by the Prostitutes' Safe Sex Project in Toronto in the early 1990s.
It's a business doing pleasure with you... safely. - pin
A cheeky sex work-themed pin foregrounding safe sex practices as central to sex workers' business.
Safe Sex: Make it your Business - pin
From a small collection of 1" pins made by the Safe Sex Corps, a precursor to the Prostitutes' Safe Sex Project.
S.W.A.T. Lips - pin
Like Maggie's, Safe Sex Corps, and the Prostitutes' Safe Sex Project before them, the Sex Workers' Alliance of Toronto made 1" pins in the 1990s.