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Coming Out

Coming Out poster
Genre
documentary television program, LGBT-related television series
Country
Canada

How it feels

This 1972 Canadian series presents interviews with LGBT individuals in Toronto during the early gay rights movement. Hosts from a local homophile association guide discussions about personal experiences and identity.

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What happens

Coming Out is a Canadian television series, which aired on Maclean-Hunter's cable community channel in Toronto in 1972. It was the first Canadian television program targeted specifically to a lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community audience. The program, a thirteen-episode documentary and interview series, profiled LGBT people living in Toronto in the earliest years of the gay rights movement. It was hosted by Paul Pearce and Sandra Dick of the Community Homophile Association of Toronto, and premiered on September 11, 1972. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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