Tom Warner (activist)

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Tom Warner (born 1952) is an author, gay rights activist, and former Human Rights Commissioner. He was born in Saskatchewan and lives in Toronto, Ontario.[1] He was one of the founding members of Gay Students' Alliance at the University of Saskatchewan, and of the Zodiac Friendship Society. In Toronto, he helped found the Gay Alliance Toward Equality and has been involved with the Right to Privacy Committee. From 1993 to 1996 he served as an Ontario Human Rights Commissioner.[2]

Honours and awards[edit]

The ArQuives: Canada's LGBTQ2+ Archives National Portrait Collection. Inducted in 2002.

Books[edit]

  • Never Going Back: A History of Queer Activism in Canada. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2002. ISBN 0-8020-3608-2.

References[edit]

  1. ^ Aldrich, Robert (2001). Who's Who in Contemporary Gay and Lesbian History Vol.2. New York: Routledge. p. 433. ISBN 0-415-22974-X.
  2. ^ "Canadian Lesbian and Gay Archives, National Portrait Collection". CLGA. 2002. Retrieved 2017-04-03.