Episode 1: Church Street with Brian Sambourne and Richard Isaac
This couple has been on the front line of gay activism in Toronto for 50 years – when the first Pride Parade was a protest, when cops raided their bathhouses, when the AIDS Committee of Toronto began, when young people in their twenties were dying from an epidemic then called GRID (Gay-Related Immune Deficiency), and when queer people were living in fear and grief.
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Brian with his arm around Richard
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Brian and Richard sitting on a bench laughing
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Brian and Richard at friend's graveside
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Brian watering flowers at friend's graveside
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Brian and Richard walking and talking
Images by Jessica Blaine Smith