Don

Tom and Don

Tom and Don, a couple who have been together for eighteen years, talk about their moves, multiple houses, and real estate ventures, including their departure of the city for a farm in rural Ontario and then their move to rural Nova Scotia. They also discuss their journeys of self-discovery, their families, their relationship, and differences of community acceptance and support in urban and rural settings.
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Date of interview: 
ca. 1990
Interviewee: 
Tom
Don
Interviewer: 
Michael Riordon
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Audio
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English
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Coming Out

Topic: Coming Out

Content includes significant discussion of, or matters related to, coming out.

Family

Topic: Family

Content includes significant discussion of matters related to family, including: one’s relationships with their family members; having and raising children; the experience of having a non-heteronormative/non-traditional family.

Identity

Topic: Identity

Content includes significant discussion of identity/ies (including gender, sexual, racial, religious, and class) and how one self-identifies, and/or significant discussion of the process of finding or determining one’s identity/ies.

Sex and Relationships

Topic: Sex and Relationships

Content includes significant discussion of all matters related to sex, sexuality, and relationships (other than familial relationships with parents or children), including: friendships; marriage; divorce; relationship models, etc.

Spaces

Topic: Spaces

Content includes significant discussion of physical (and sometimes conceptual) spaces and locales including: urban spaces and life; rural spaces and life; private/domestic spaces; the home; neighbourhoods and ghettos; and semi-private or semi-public spaces such as women’s bookshops, community spaces, and land/living collectives.

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Don

The interviewee describes key events in his coming out process (from age five to during his first job after university), a sexual relationship of 1971-1972 and 1990-on, and his involvement in both the daycare workers' union and the gay liberation movement.
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Collection: 
Date of interview: 
ca. 1990
Interviewee: 
Don
Interviewer: 
Michael Riordon
Format: 
Audio
Language: 
English
Place of interview: 
Dates mentioned: 
Topics: 

Activism and Social Justice

Topic: Activism and Social Justice

Content includes discussion of matters related to activism and social justice, including but not limited to: political and social movements; activist work; community organizing; and protests and demonstrations.

Coming Out

Topic: Coming Out

Content includes significant discussion of, or matters related to, coming out.

Politics and Law

Politics and Law

Content includes significant discussion of political and legal issues and work, including: political careers; political movements and protests; legal battles and court cases; and specific important and/or historic laws and rulings.

Sex and Relationships

Topic: Sex and Relationships

Content includes significant discussion of all matters related to sex, sexuality, and relationships (other than familial relationships with parents or children), including: friendships; marriage; divorce; relationship models, etc.

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