Tim McCaskell (he/him) is a long-time Toronto writer, activist and educator. He was a collective member of The Body Politic, Canada’s first national magazine for Lesbian and Gay Liberation from 1974 to 1986, chair of the Public Action Committee of the Right to Privacy Committee which fought back against police raids on gay baths in Toronto in the early 1980s, and part of the Simon Nkodi Anti-Apartheid Committee: Lesbians and Gays Against Apartheid in the late 80s. He was a founding member of AIDS ACTION NOW!, an activist group which won access to experimental treatments and funding for medications in the 1990s and Queers Against Israeli Apartheid after 2010.
For more than twenty years McCaskell worked at the Toronto Board of Education, developing and delivering programs on racism, homophobia and sexual harassment for students and teachers. He received the City of Toronto Award of Merit for his human rights work in 1996.
In 2005, he published Race To Equity: Disrupting Educational Inequality, a history of the struggle for equity in Toronto public schools. His most recent book, Queer Progress: From Homophobia to Homonationalism, was published in 2016.His video workshop, Neoliberalism as Water Balloon, has had over 100,000 hits on vimeo and youtube and has been translated into Turkish and Chinese.
Awards:
City of Toronto Award of Merit 1996.
Topics:
Gay history
Social movements and neoliberalism
History of racism
AIDS activism
Fee: Tim offers a rate for non-profit community based of $50, funded NGOs $250 and corporate $500.
