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This fonds contains records related to Gay Bell's involvement with the early lesbian movement in Toronto, prisoners' rights activism, labour activism, and women's liberation. Including brochures, pamphlets, flyers, correspondence, buttons, and photographs related to the local instantiation of these movements in the late 1970s and early 1980s, Bell collected alternative publications and periodicals that detail their wider historical context. The fonds also contains scripts, rough notes, photographs, and newspaper articles related to Bell's theatrical performances, which were often innovative and sometimes controversial. When Bell donated these records in 2011, she included explanatory notes that provide detail and context for local events and initiative which have been lost to history. This fonds is thus invaluable for studying the early lesbian movement, queer involvement in labour organizing, prison activism, and the expanding purview of women's liberation in the last decades of the 20th century.
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Ce fonds contient des documents relatifs à l'implication de Gay Bell dans le premier mouvement lesbien à Toronto, le militantisme pour les droits des prisonniers, le militantisme syndical et la libération des femmes. Il comprend des brochures, des dépliants, des prospectus, de la correspondance, des macarons et des photographies liés à l'implantation locale de ces mouvements à la fin des années 1970 et au début des années 1980. Bell a rassemblé des publications et des périodiques alternatifs qui détaillent leur contexte historique plus large. Le fonds contient également des scénarios, des notes brutes, des photographies et des articles de journaux relatifs aux représentations théâtrales de Bell, souvent innovantes et parfois controversées. Lorsque Bell a fait don de ces documents en 2011, elle y a joint des notes explicatives qui fournissent des détails et un contexte pour les événements et les initiatives locales qui ont été perdus dans l'histoire. Ce fonds est donc inestimable pour l'étude des débuts du mouvement lesbien, de l'implication des queers dans l'organisation du travail, de l'activisme en prison et de l'élargissement du champ d'action de la libération des femmes dans les dernières décennies du XXe siècle.

This series contains records related to Gay Bell's plays and performances, including scripts, rough notes, and research material for her one-woman shows and other plays she wrote or performed in. This includes documents related to the following plays: "A Fine Kettle of Fish : Lesbians and Feminists in the Women's Movement," "Pink Triangle Tears, a bawdy political satire," "I am Quilty," "Mother Teresa,"Lesbian Triptych," "The Pink Raygun Show," and more. The series also contains brochures, flyers, and articles related to the queer performing arts scene in Toronto in the late 1970s and early 1980s, and journal articles that address avant garde and participatory theatre.

This file contain two pamphlets and some handwritten notes. One pamphlet advertises "A Fine Kettle of Fish, "a workshop for Lesbians and Feminists in the women's movement, and the other advertises a labour rally and demonstration for International Women's Day, 1979.

This file contains notes, a pamphlet, and a script for the play "Pink Raygun Theatre," written by Val Fullard and featuring Gay Bell

This file contains budget, rough notes, a script, and pamphlets for a radio play written by Gay Bell

This file contains notes, correspondence, newspaper clippings, pamphlets, and a script, all of which are related to a skit that Gay Bell wrote about the Ontario Human Rights Commission. It also contains articles that detail the right-wing fundamentalist view of homosexuality at the time this play was written.

This file contains posters, notes, correspondence, newspaper clippings, articles, pamphlets, and other material related to the play "Picking Us Off One by One, " an interactive play about picket lines presented by SPIT, a workers' theatre group including members from CUPE, OPSEU, CEP and FWTAO

This file contains a poster, script, correspondence, and newspaper clippings about Gay Bell's performance as Barbara Frum for the Sixth Annual 5 Minute Feminist Cabaret

This file contains material related to the playwrite Lina Chartrand, including documents and articles produced in memorium, a large portrait photograph, a short biography, and advertisements for her various plays.

This file contains flyers, notes and correspondence, newspaper clippings, pamphlets, and the script for a benefit concert related to Marilyn Churley's campaign for Toronto City Council. Churley also performed in a play by Gay Bell called "Danger : Anger."