Video Guide - World AIDS Day Issue - Vol 10, No 3-4, Issue 48
HIV/AIDS Video Activism
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 information exchange through a public video library and to provided access to video equipment, basic workshops, and published a magazine, Video Guide, distributed internationally. This 1989 issue of Video Guide is dedicated to HIV/AIDS video activism to mark World AIDS Day.
VIVO Media Arts Centre
http://archive.vivomediaarts.com/video-guide/
VIVO Media Arts Centre
November 1989
Newsprint
English
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.
Colman Jones
Rites Magazine
June 1989
Newpaper
English
SIDART Postcard Invitation
V International AIDS Conference
<span>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 Conference. The conference proceedings from SIDART were formulated in the book </span><em><a href="https://e-artexte.ca/id/eprint/6455/">A Leap in the Dark: AIDS, Art, and Contemporary Cultures</a> </em><span>edited by Allan Klusacek and Ken Morrison.</span>
Ken Morrison
<a href="http://agq.qc.ca/fonds-archives/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Les Archives Gaies du Quebec - Ken Morrison Collection</a>
Summer 1989
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<div class="element-text">SIDART mentioned in Tom Waugh transcript (<a href="https://aidsactivisthistory.ca/interviews/montreal-interviews/#Waugh" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">T60</a>)</div>
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Postcard
English / French
Postcard
SIDART Program
V International AIDS Conference
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 Conference. The conference proceedings from SIDART were formulated in the book <em><a href="https://e-artexte.ca/id/eprint/6455/">A Leap in the Dark: AIDS, Art, and Contemporary Cultures</a> </em>edited by Allan Klusacek and Ken Morrison.
Ken Morrison
<a href="http://agq.qc.ca/fonds-archives/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Les Archives Gaies du Quebec - Ken Morrison Collection</a>
Summer 1989
SIDART mentioned in Tom Waugh transcript (<a href="https://aidsactivisthistory.ca/interviews/montreal-interviews/#Waugh" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">T60</a>)
English / French
Program
AIDS ACTION NOW! Poster - "Women Get AIDS Too!"
AIDS ACTION NOW!
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.
AIDS ACTION NOW!
December 1990
poster
Still Image
Cinema and the Sex Trade: An Interview with Gwendolyn
Sex work
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 Liaison of Independent Filmmakers of Toronto (LIFT)
From the personal collection of Richard Fung
April 1990
11" x 17" folded in half
The Half and Half Show - Program
Sex work
Detailed program from Maggie's first ever fundraiser, a cabaret show featuring Gwendolyn's 'Merchants of Love' performance and others.
Maggie's
From the personal collection of Andrew Sorfleet
25 October 1992
Elaine Ayres (Graphic Designer)
8.5" x 11" folded in half lengthwise, double sided, two pages stapled together.
The Half and Half Show - Brochure
Sex work
Brochure advertising Maggie's first ever fundraiser, a cabaret show featuring Gwendolyn's 'Merchants of Love' performance and others.
Maggie's
From the personal collection of Andrew Sorfleet
25 October 1992
8.5" x 11" folded in half lengthwise, double sided
Ex-Hooker Helps Open 'Merchants of Love' Show - Newspaper article
Sex work
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
Evelyn Erskine
From the personal collection of Andrew Sorfleet
Ottawa Citizen
25 September 1987
photocopy
Prostitutes Protesting Crackdown - Newspaper Article
Sex work
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 Rights of Prostitutes.
Lila Sarik
From the personal collection of Andrew Sorfleet
Globe and Mail
17 June 1988
8.5" x 11" photocopy
Prostitutes Jailed Unfairly, Groups Say & 'Condom Patrols,' Threats Cited at Hearing - Newspaper articles
Sex work
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 Canadian Organization for the Rights of Prostitutes and Citizens Organization for the Repeal of Prostitution-Related Laws respectively are cited.
Ann Rauhala and Thomas Claridge
From the personal collection of Andrew Sorfleet
Globe and Mail
26 March 1987
8.5" x 11" photocopy
Response to Toronto Star Journalist Frank Jones - CORP Statement
Sex work
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 should not be legalized, but decriminalized.
Canadian Organization for the Rights of Prostitutes
From the personal collection of Andrew Sorfleet
1987
8.5" x 11" photocopy
Prostitution Crack Down - CORP Press Release
Sex work
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 their city just prior to the G7 economic summit being held in June of 1988.
Danny Cockerline and Valerie Scott
From the personal collection of Andrew Sorfleet
Canadian Organization for the Rights of Prostitutes
June 1988
8.5" x 11" photocopy
Cabbagetown Gentrification and Anti-prostitution Measures - CORP Letter to Ian Scott, Attorney General
Sex work
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.
Ryan Hotchkiss
From the personal collection of Andrew Sorfleet
Canadian Organization for the Rights of Prostitutes
16 December 1987
8.5" x 11" photocopy
The Case Against C-49 - CORP Position Statement
Sex work
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 the context of sex work and the safety of sex workers.
Danny Cockerline
From the personal collection of Andrew Sorfleet
Canadian Organization for the Rights of Prostitutes
27 October 1989
8.5" x 11" photocopy
Final Report on Establishing the Prostitutes' Safe Sex Project (PSSP) Resource Centre
Sex work
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.
Chris Bearchell
From the personal collection of Andrew Sorfleet
August 1993
58 pages, 8.5" x 11" photocopy
It's a business doing pleasure with you... safely. - pin
Sex work
A cheeky sex work-themed pin foregrounding safe sex practices as central to sex workers' business.
Unknown
From the personal collection of Andrew Sorfleet
1" round pin
Safe Sex: Make it your Business - pin
Sex work
From a small collection of 1" pins made by the Safe Sex Corps, a precursor to the Prostitutes' Safe Sex Project.
From the personal collection of Andrew Sorfleet
1" round pin
S.W.A.T. Lips - pin
Sex work
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.
Sex Workers' Alliance of Toronto
From the personal collection of Andrew Sorfleet
1" round pin
Safe Sex Ho - pin
Sex work
From a small collection of 1" pins made by the Prostitutes' Safe Sex Project.
Prostitutes' Safe Sex Project
From the personal collection of Andrew Sorfleet
1" round pin