Toy, James W., 1930-

James Toy, an activist on behalf of gay-lesbian rights, was founder and co-head of the Human Sexuality Office of the University of Michigan.

In 1970, James Toy helped to found and served as secretary of both the Detroit Gay Liberation Movement and the Ann Arbor Gay Liberation Front, organizations established to dramatize and seek remedy for the discrimination and harassment that gays and lesbians daily confronted. In April of 1970 Toy made his first public pronouncement as an "open" gay male at an anti-war rally in Detroit.

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