AGQ-F0037

Fonds Douglas Sanders. – 1967-1969. – 1 cm of textual records.

 

 

Biographical sketch:

 

Douglas Esmond Sanders, born in 1938, is a Vancouver lawyer and Professor Emeritus at the University of British Columbia Law School. He is one of the founders of the Association for Social Knowledge (ASK), which became Lesbian and Gay Liberation in Canada (LGLC). He defends the rights of LGBTQ+ people and indigenous peoples around the world. He was secretary of The North American Conference of Homophile Organizations (NACHO), which held a conference in Chicago in 1968. He has published articles in Humans Rights Quarterly and Criminal Law Quarterly.

 

 

Scope and content:

 

The collection bears witness to the solidarity between North American gay communities in defence of their rights, and demonstrates the difficulties encountered in setting up gay community organizations in the late 1960s.

 

The fonds contains correspondence, mainly with Paul Bédard, the founder of the Association for International Sexual Legality. There is a copy of a letter to Prime Minister Pierre Elliot Trudeau and documents concerning the Gemini Club.

 

 

The fonds contains the following files:

 

  • AGQ-F0037/D1. Douglas Sanders. Correspondence produced and received (photocopies)
  • AGQ-F0037/D2. ISEA business card (photocopy)
  • AGQ-F0037/D3. Documents relating to the Gemini Club (photocopies)

 

 

Notes:

 

Source of title proper: Title based on the contents of the fonds.

 

Immediate source of acquisition: The fonds was transferred to the AGQ on 6 November 1986 by Gary Kinsman (acquisition 1986-06).

 

Language: The documents are in French and English.

 

Finding aids: Digital inventory of the fonds in Excel format.

 

 

Bibliography:

 

Blackwell, M. (2018-09-17). ‘‘UBC Library users now able to access archive offering an expansive and detailed look at LGBT2SQIA history’’. Retrieved from https://about.library.ubc.ca/2018/09/17/ubc-library-users-now-able-to-access-archive-offering-an-expansive-and-detailed-look-at-lgbt2sqia-history/

 

 

 

 

 

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