TORONTO AREA GAYS
WHAT WE DID AND WHY WE DID IT
(from the cheap seats at the revolution, a monologue on TAG in the 1970's)
Table of Contents
- FIRST: NOT A HISTORY & PREFACE
- 1) WHAT, WHY (CONCEPTS AND IDEAS)
- A) STARTING TAG
- a) Motivations
- b) An Avenue Into The Community
- c) Kitchen Table Counselling, Communal Structure, Consenus
- 2) HOW (IDEAS INTO ACTS)
- A) TAG MEETINGS
- a) Format (the circle, and rounds)
- b) Regular (and role-playing)
- c) Marathon
- d) Weekends
- B) TAG MEMBERSHIP
- a) Size Of The Group
- b) Tagettes
- c) Becoming A Member
- d) Sub-group Members
- C) OPERATIONS
- a) Advertising
- b) Funding
- c) The Office Location
- d) The Office (info files, logbooks)
- e) The Workload, and Housekeeping
- f) Answering The Phones, Doing The Logbooks
- g) Non-phone Operations
- D) POSTSCRIPT: THE MISSING LOGBOOKS
- 3) THE THINGS WE DID
(DEALING WITH THE PEOPLE WHO MADE USE OF TAG)
- A) PHONE CALLS
- a) Number Of, Format
- b) Types
- c) Some Types, In No Particular Order :
Coming Out, Married Men, Silent, Phone-sex,
Calls Involving Women and Girls, Abusive, Religious,
Prank Calls and Children & Teenagers, Emergency,
Crisis, Information, Dating, Non-gay, Hoax.
- B) MEETING PEOPLE FACE TO FACE
- a) Where, How, Who (other than sub-groups)
- b) One More Consideration
- C) SUB-GROUPS
- a) The Coming Out Group (Ian's Group)
- b) The Married Men's Group
- c) The Friday Night Group
- d) The No Name Cafe
- e) The Women's Group (Rosemary's Group)
- f) The After You're Out Group
- D) GROUPS THAT HAD SOME ASSOCIATION WITH TAG
- a) Transvestites in Toronto (TIT)
- b) The Gay Community Calendar
- E) THE TAG MAILBOX
- 4) THE TAG FILES, 1975-1983
- STARTING TAG
- Pre-phoneline (July/Aug.1975-Jan/76)
- MEETINGS, AND MEMBERS
- Minutes
- Weekends & Retreats
- Membership Lists
- THE WORK
- Logbooks restricted
- Mailbox (1)
- Mailbox (2) restricted
- Mailbox (3) restricted
- Sub-groups
- OPERATING TAG
- TAG Documents & Papers (1) (internal items)
- TAG Documents & Papers (2) (for external use)
- Advertising, Press Clippings & Coverage, etc.
- Finances (1)
- Finances (2)
- Fundraising Events
- Bills & Receipts
- Leases
- Office (1)
- Office (2)
- Buttons, Stickers, T-shirts, etc.
- TAG and OTHER GROUPS AND EVENTS
- Family Services Association
- 1976 Fourth National Conference
- The Gay Community Calendar
- Gaydays
- RTPC Support Group
- Experience 81