Michael Lynch (professor)
Michael Lynch (1944 – July 9, 1991) was an American-born
Born and raised in Harnett County, North Carolina,[2] he studied at Goddard College and the University of Iowa.[1] He wrote his doctoral dissertation on the poetry of Wallace Stevens.[1] He moved to Toronto in 1971 with his then-wife Gail Jones,[1] and from 1971 to 1990 he taught in the Department of English at the University of Toronto at both the main and Erindale College campuses.[3]
After coming out as a
Lynch was a committed AIDS activist from the dawn of the AIDS crisis in 1981 until his death in 1991,[6] including as a founding member of AIDS Action Now!,[7] the AIDS Committee of Toronto[7] and the AIDS Memorial in Toronto's Barbara Hall Park.[8]
In 1989 he published the poetry collection These Waves of Dying Friends.[9]
At the time of his death, he had an unfinished gay studies manuscript, The Age of Adhesiveness: From Friendship to Homosexuality, in development.
Honours and awards
In honour of his role as a significant contributor to LGBT culture and history in Canada, a portrait of Lynch by Gerald Hannon is held by The ArQuives: Canada's LGBTQ2+ Archives' National Portrait Collection.[6]
A biography of Lynch, AIDS Activist: Michael Lynch and the Politics of Community, was published by Ann Silversides in 2003.[10]
References
- ^ ISBN 9781134583133.
- ^ Canadian Lesbian and Gay Archives, November 14, 1996.
- ^ a b c "Out & Proud". U of T Magazine, Summer 2009.
- ^ "It Seems All Right to Him to Care for His Son, but Society Doesn't Agree, Homosexual Says". The Globe and Mail, March 30, 1978.
- ISBN 1550222732.
- ^ a b "Canadian Lesbian and Gay Archives, National Portrait Collection". CLGA. 2002. Retrieved 2017-04-03.
- ^ a b "Gay Activist Michael Lynch Helped Found AIDS Groups". Toronto Star, July 11, 1991.
- ^ "It's for One Person to Have a Cry, or a Thousand People to Hold a Demonstration.". The Globe and Mail, January 5, 1991.
- ISBN 9780252062940.
- ^ "AIDS Activist: Michael Lynch and the Politics of Community, by Ann Silversides". Quill & Quire, August 2003.
External links
- Michael Lynch fonds - Archival records at The ArQuives: Canada's LGBTQ2+ Archives