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| name = Jim Toy
| name = Jim Toy
| image = JimToy-GLBT-Activist.jpg
| image = JimToy-GLBT-Activist.jpg
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| birth_name = James Willis Toy
| birth_name = James Willis Toy
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1930|04|29}}
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1930|04|29}}
| birth_place = [[New York City]], U.S.
| birth_place = [[New York City]], U.S.
| death_date = {{Death date and age|2022|01|01|1930|04|29}}
| death_date = {{Death date and age|2022|01|01|1930|04|29}}
| death_place = [[Ann Arbor, Michigan]], U.S.
| death_place = [[Ann Arbor, Michigan]], U.S.
| nationality = American
| nationality = American
| other_names = jimathan williamathis boioioioioioiong
| other_names =
| alma_mater = Denison University<br/>[[University of Michigan]]
| alma_mater = Denison University<br/>[[University of Michigan]]
| occupation = [[United States|US]] [[lesbian]], [[gay]], [[bisexual]] and [[transgender]] ([[LGBT]]) activist and educator
| occupation = [[United States|US]] [[lesbian]], [[gay]], [[bisexual]] and [[transgender]] ([[LGBT]]) activist and educator
| known_for = Gay Liberation Front, Lesbian-Gay Male Programs Office at the [[University of Michigan]], [[Episcopal Diocese of Michigan]] Commission on Homosexuality
| known_for = Gay Liberation Front, Lesbian-Gay Male Programs Office at the [[University of Michigan]], [[Episcopal Diocese of Michigan]] Commission on Homosexuality
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'''James Willis Toy'''<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=https://www.dignitymemorial.com/en-ca/obituaries/ann-arbor-mi/james-toy-10510209|title = James Toy Obituary - Ann Arbor, MI}}</ref> (April 29, 1930 – January 1, 2022) was a long-time American activist and a pioneer for [[LGBT rights in Michigan]].<ref name="FKWang2022">{{cite web | last=Wang | first=Frances Kai-Hwa | author-link=Frances Kai-Hwa Wang | title=Activists and historians remember Jim Toy as a pioneering leader in LGBTQ rights | website=PBS NewsHour | date=2022-01-05 | url=https://www.pbs.org/newshour/education/activists-and-historians-remember-jim-toy-as-a-pioneering-leader-in-lgbtq-rights}}</ref>
'''James Willis Toy'''<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.dignitymemorial.com/en-ca/obituaries/ann-arbor-mi/james-toy-10510209|title = James Toy Obituary - Ann Arbor, MI}}</ref> (April 29, 1930 – January 1, 2022) was a long-time American activist and a pioneer for [[LGBT rights in Michigan]].<ref name="FKWang2022">{{cite web | last=Wang | first=Frances Kai-Hwa | author-link=Frances Kai-Hwa Wang | title=Activists and historians remember Jim Toy as a pioneering leader in LGBTQ rights | website=PBS NewsHour | date=2022-01-05 | url=https://www.pbs.org/newshour/education/activists-and-historians-remember-jim-toy-as-a-pioneering-leader-in-lgbtq-rights}}</ref>


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Toy earned his B.A. at [[Denison University]] in 1951.<ref name="alumni.denison.edu">{{Cite news|url=https://alumni.denison.edu/citations/james-w-toy/|title=James W. Toy {{!}} Denison University Alumni|newspaper=Denison University Alumni|language=en-US|access-date=2017-02-03}}</ref> He graduated with a master's degree in Clinical Social Work from the [[University of Michigan]] and served as a [[pro bono]] counselor and therapist. At Michigan, Toy helped establish the Human Sexualty Office in 1971,<ref name="SpectrumCenterObit">{{cite web | title=Jim Toy, One of Spectrum Center's Founders, Dies at 91 | website=Spectrum Center | url=https://spectrumcenter.umich.edu/article/jim-toy-one-spectrum-centers-founders-dies-91}}</ref> and was later affiliated with the campus Office of Institutional Equity.
Toy earned his B.A. at [[Denison University]] in 1951.{{Short description|American LGBTQ activist (1930–2022)}}
{{For|the baseball player|Jim Toy (baseball)}} <!--{{BLP sources|date=July 2020}}--> {{Infobox person
| name = Jim Toy
| image = JimToy-GLBT-Activist.jpg
| image_size = 220
| caption =
| other_names = jimathan williamathis boioioioioioiong
| birth_name = James Willis Toy
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1930|04|29}}
| birth_place = [[New York City]], U.S.
| death_date = {{Death date and age|2022|01|01|1930|04|29}}
| death_place = [[Ann Arbor, Michigan]], U.S.
| nationality = American
| alma_mater = Denison University<br/>[[University of Michigan]]
| occupation = [[United States|US]] [[lesbian]], [[gay]], [[bisexual]] and [[transgender]] ([[LGBT]]) activist and educator
| known_for = Gay Liberation Front, Lesbian-Gay Male Programs Office at the [[University of Michigan]], [[Episcopal Diocese of Michigan]] Commission on Homosexuality
}}

'''James Willis Toy'''<ref name=":0" /> (April 29, 1930 – January 1, 2022) was a long-time American activist and a pioneer for [[LGBT rights in Michigan]].<ref name="FKWang20222">{{cite web |last=Wang |first=Frances Kai-Hwa |author-link=Frances Kai-Hwa Wang |date=2022-01-05 |title=Activists and historians remember Jim Toy as a pioneering leader in LGBTQ rights |url=https://www.pbs.org/newshour/education/activists-and-historians-remember-jim-toy-as-a-pioneering-leader-in-lgbtq-rights |website=PBS NewsHour}}</ref>

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Toy earned his B.A. at [[Denison University]] in 1951.<ref name="alumni.denison.edu2">{{Cite news |title=James W. Toy {{!}} Denison University Alumni |url=https://alumni.denison.edu/citations/james-w-toy/ |access-date=2017-02-03 |newspaper=Denison University Alumni |language=en-US}}</ref> He graduated with a master's degree in Clinical Social Work from the [[University of Michigan]] and served as a [[pro bono]] counselor and therapist. At Michigan, Toy helped establish the Human Sexuality Office in 1971,<ref name="SpectrumCenterObit2">{{cite web |title=Jim Toy, One of Spectrum Center's Founders, Dies at 91 |url=https://spectrumcenter.umich.edu/article/jim-toy-one-spectrum-centers-founders-dies-91 |website=Spectrum Center}}</ref> and was later affiliated with the campus Office of Institutional Equity.

In June 2001, Dennison awarded Toy with the Alumni Citation, the school's highest alumni honor,<ref name="alumni.denison.edu2" /> and in 2013, he was featured as an early LGBT alumnus in the college's history.<ref name=":1" />

==Michigan activism==
Toy identified as being gay during his speech at an anti-Vietnam War rally in Kennedy Square, [[Detroit]], in April 1970. At the rally, he was representing the Detroit [[Gay Liberation Front]], of which he was a founding member.<ref name=":2" />

===Ann Arbor and University of Michigan===
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Toy was a founding member of the Ann Arbor Gay Liberation Front. In 1971, he helped establish the Human Sexuality Office (HSO) at the [[University of Michigan]] in [[Ann Arbor, Michigan]]. The HSO was the first staffed office at an institution of higher learning in the United States, and presumably the first of its kind in the world, to address and support sexual minorities. Toy served as its Co-Coordinator, and Gay Male advocate, from 1971 until 1994. The HSO, now named the [[Spectrum Center (community center)|Spectrum Center]], has named its library in Toy's honor. The Jim Toy Library (JTL) currently hosts a collection of over 1500 titles and supports LGBTQA student development by exposing students to, and engaging them in the rich cultural, social, historical, psychological, political, and relational aspects of LGBTQ people, identities, experiences, and communities.

In 1972, Toy co-authored the first official "[[Gay pride|Lesbian-Gay Pride]] Week Proclamation" by a U.S. governing body, the Ann Arbor City Council. The same year, he co-authored the city's non-discrimination policy on [[sexual orientation]]. He participated (1973–1993) in the successful efforts to amend the University of Michigan's non-discrimination bylaw to include sexual orientation as a protected category. He engaged in the campaigns to create and retain the [[Ypsilanti, Michigan|City of Ypsilanti]]'s non-discrimination ordinance (1997–1998). In 1999, Toy and Dr. Sandra Cole, former Director of [[Michigan Medicine]]'s Comprehensive Gender Services Program, wrote the language of Ann Arbor's non-discrimination policy regarding gender identity. With many others, Toy advocated successfully (1993–2007) for the amendment of the University of Michigan's non-discrimination bylaw so as to include gender identity and gender expression as protected categories.

===Episcopal Diocese of Michigan===
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In 1971, Bishop Richard Emrich of the [[Episcopal Diocese of Michigan]] appointed Toy a founding member of the Diocesan Commission on Homosexuality. The group published the Report & Recommendations of the Commission on Homosexuality (1973), one of the earliest church documents in the United States to support the concerns of lesbigay people.

From 1975, Toy served as the Secretary of the Diocesan Church & Society Committee. He was a co-author of the Diocesan Human Sexuality Curriculum and was Secretary of the Diocesan Committee on Transgender/Bisexual/Lesbian/Gay/Concerns.

He was a founding board member of the Oasis TBLG Outreach Ministry of the Diocese and served as the secretary.

On Sunday, October 27, 2019, he was seated as Canon Honorary at the Cathedral Church of St. Paul, Detroit, at an Evensong for the Feast of Saints Simon and Jude.

===LGBT health and wellness===
Toy co-founded the Ann Arbor Gay Hotline in 1972 and served as its Coordinator and Trainer until 1985.<ref name="bentley2">{{citation |title=James W. Toy Papers: Biography |periodical=Bentley Historical Library, University of Michigan |url=http://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/f/findaid/findaid-idx?c=bhlead;idno=umich-bhl-9744;view=reslist;didno=umich-bhl-9744;subview=standard;focusrgn=bioghist;cc=bhlead;byte=83892085 |accessdate=2007-09-12}}</ref>

In 1986, he helped found the Wellness Networks/Huron Valley, now known as Unified: HIV Health and Beyond.<ref name=":3" /> He became the first Co-Coordinator of HIV/AIDS Education for the Episcopal Diocese of Michigan in 1987. He served as a certified Pre- & Post-Test HIV/AIDS Counselor and as a support group facilitator and volunteer trainer for Unified: HIV Health and Beyond. He was a founding member of the City of Ann Arbor HIV/AIDS Task Force and of two four-county HIV/AIDS prevention and resource-provision groups.

===Additional organizations===
Toy was a founding member of the [[Washtenaw County, Michigan|Washtenaw County]] LGBT Retirement Center Task Force, [[PFLAG]]/Ann Arbor, [[GLSEN]]/Ann Arbor-Ypsilanti Area, Washtenaw Rainbow Action Project (WRAP),<ref name=":4" /> Transgender Advocacy Project (TAP),<ref name=":5" /> [[American Friends Service Committee]] (AFSC) Inclusive Justice Program, Washtenaw Faith Action Network, Ypsilanti Human Rights PAC, Ypsilanti Rainbow Neighbors, and the Out Loud Chorus (1995).<ref name=":6" /> He was a former executive board member of Guild House ("A Campus Ministry").<ref name=":7" />

He was a trained mediator and trainer for the [[American Friends Service Committee]] Inclusive Justice Program's non-violent-dialogue training ("LARA"). He was a member of the Program Committee of the AFSC Michigan's Inclusive Justice Program. He served on [[Equality Michigan]]'s Board of Advisors<ref name="b12">{{cite web |title=The Triangle Foundation Board of Advisors |url=http://tri.org/about/advisors.html |url-status=bot: unknown |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080512072952/http://tri.org/about/advisors.html |archivedate=May 12, 2008 |accessdate=2012-04-04}}.tri.org</ref> and the WikiQueer Global Advisory Board.<ref name="wq-advisory2">{{cite web |title=WikiQueer:Global Advisory Board |url=http://www.wikiqueer.org/w/WikiQueer:Global_Advisory_Board |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120801185909/http://www.wikiqueer.org/w/WikiQueer%3AGlobal_Advisory_Board |archive-date=August 1, 2012 |accessdate=March 27, 2013 |publisher=WikiQueer}}</ref> He was a founding member of the gay Baroque trio, Rosetta Stoned, & The Higheroglyphics.

==Acknowledgements==
The Washtenaw Rainbow Action Project (WRAP) is a local Ann Arbor resource center that exists to provide information, education, social events, and advocacy by and for the Queer and Ally community in the Washtenaw County area. In his honor, the center was renamed the Jim Toy Community Center (JTCC) in 2010.

His archives are housed in the James W. Toy Papers<ref name=":8" /> at the University of Michigan's [[Bentley Historical Library]]. He was included in the Gallery of the LGBT Religious Archives Network (LGBT-RAN).<ref name=":9" />

==Personal life and death==
Toy was born in New York City on April 29, 1930.<ref name="bentley2" /> He died in Ann Arbor on January 1, 2022, at the age of 91.<ref name=":10" />

==See also==

* [[LGBT history in Michigan]]

==References==
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==External links==

* [https://www.pbs.org/newshour/education/activists-and-historians-remember-jim-toy-as-a-pioneering-leader-in-lgbtq-rights Activists and historians remember Jim Toy as a pioneering leader in LGBTQ rights]
* [https://spectrumcenter.umich.edu/article/jim-toy-one-spectrum-centers-founders-dies-91 Jim Toy, One of Spectrum Center's Founders, Dies at 91]

He graduated with a master's degree in Clinical Social Work from the [[University of Michigan]] and served as a [[pro bono]] counselor and therapist. At Michigan, Toy helped establish the Human Sexuality Office in 1971,<ref name="SpectrumCenterObit">{{cite web | title=Jim Toy, One of Spectrum Center's Founders, Dies at 91 | website=Spectrum Center | url=https://spectrumcenter.umich.edu/article/jim-toy-one-spectrum-centers-founders-dies-91}}</ref> and was later affiliated with the campus Office of Institutional Equity.


In June 2001, Dennison awarded Toy with the Alumni Citation, the school's highest alumni honor,<ref name="alumni.denison.edu">{{Cite news |title=James W. Toy {{!}} Denison University Alumni |url=https://alumni.denison.edu/citations/james-w-toy/ |access-date=2017-02-03 |newspaper=Denison University Alumni |language=en-US}}</ref> and in 2013, he was featured as an early LGBT alumnus in the college's history.<ref name=":1">{{Cite news|url=https://denisonmagazine.com/feature/open-door-policy/|title=Open-Door Policy|newspaper=Denison Magazine|language=en-US|access-date=2017-02-03|archive-date=2017-02-04|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170204085204/https://denisonmagazine.com/feature/open-door-policy/|url-status=dead}}</ref>
In June 2001, Dennison awarded Toy with the Alumni Citation, the school's highest alumni honor,<ref name="alumni.denison.edu"/> and in 2013, he was featured as an early LGBT alumnus in the college's history.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://denisonmagazine.com/feature/open-door-policy/|title=Open-Door Policy|newspaper=Denison Magazine|language=en-US|access-date=2017-02-03|archive-date=2017-02-04|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170204085204/https://denisonmagazine.com/feature/open-door-policy/|url-status=dead}}</ref>


==Michigan activism==
==Michigan activism==
Toy identified as being gay during his speech at an anti-Vietnam War rally in Kennedy Square, [[Detroit]], in April 1970. At the rally, he was representing the Detroit [[Gay Liberation Front]], of which he was a founding member.<ref name=":2">{{Cite web|url=https://lgbtqreligiousarchives.org/profiles/jim-toy|title=Jim Toy {{!}} Profiles {{!}} LGBTQ Religious Archives Network|website=lgbtqreligiousarchives.org|access-date=2019-08-22}}</ref>
Toy identified as being gay during his speech at an anti-Vietnam War rally in Kennedy Square, [[Detroit]], in April 1970. At the rally, he was representing the Detroit [[Gay Liberation Front]], of which he was a founding member.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://lgbtqreligiousarchives.org/profiles/jim-toy|title=Jim Toy {{!}} Profiles {{!}} LGBTQ Religious Archives Network|website=lgbtqreligiousarchives.org|access-date=2019-08-22}}</ref>


===Ann Arbor and University of Michigan===
===Ann Arbor and University of Michigan===
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Toy co-founded the Ann Arbor Gay Hotline in 1972 and served as its Coordinator and Trainer until 1985.<ref name="bentley" />
Toy co-founded the Ann Arbor Gay Hotline in 1972 and served as its Coordinator and Trainer until 1985.<ref name="bentley" />


In 1986, he helped found the Wellness Networks/Huron Valley, now known as Unified: HIV Health and Beyond.<ref name=":3">{{Cite web|url=http://www.miunified.org/Home|title=Unified - Home|website=www.miunified.org|access-date=2019-10-07}}</ref> He became the first Co-Coordinator of HIV/AIDS Education for the Episcopal Diocese of Michigan in 1987. He served as a certified Pre- & Post-Test HIV/AIDS Counselor and as a support group facilitator and volunteer trainer for Unified: HIV Health and Beyond. He was a founding member of the City of Ann Arbor HIV/AIDS Task Force and of two four-county HIV/AIDS prevention and resource-provision groups.
In 1986, he helped found the Wellness Networks/Huron Valley, now known as Unified: HIV Health and Beyond.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.miunified.org/Home|title=Unified - Home|website=www.miunified.org|access-date=2019-10-07}}</ref> He became the first Co-Coordinator of HIV/AIDS Education for the Episcopal Diocese of Michigan in 1987. He served as a certified Pre- & Post-Test HIV/AIDS Counselor and as a support group facilitator and volunteer trainer for Unified: HIV Health and Beyond. He was a founding member of the City of Ann Arbor HIV/AIDS Task Force and of two four-county HIV/AIDS prevention and resource-provision groups.


===Additional organizations===
===Additional organizations===
Toy was a founding member of the [[Washtenaw County, Michigan|Washtenaw County]] LGBT Retirement Center Task Force, [[PFLAG]]/Ann Arbor, [[GLSEN]]/Ann Arbor-Ypsilanti Area, Washtenaw Rainbow Action Project (WRAP),<ref name=":4">{{Cite web|url=https://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/f/findaid/findaid-idx?cc=bhlead;c=bhlead;idno=umich-bhl-0268;didno=umich-bhl-0268;view=text|title=Washtenaw Rainbow Action Project Records|last=Project|first=Washtenaw Rainbow Action|website=quod.lib.umich.edu|access-date=2019-10-07}}</ref> Transgender Advocacy Project (TAP),<ref name=":5">{{Cite web|url=https://www.aclumich.org/en/aclu-michigan-transgender-advocacy-project|title=The ACLU of Michigan Transgender Advocacy Project|date=2015-09-03|website=ACLU of Michigan|language=en|access-date=2019-10-07}}</ref> [[American Friends Service Committee]] (AFSC) Inclusive Justice Program, Washtenaw Faith Action Network, Ypsilanti Human Rights PAC, Ypsilanti Rainbow Neighbors, and the Out Loud Chorus (1995).<ref name=":6">{{Cite web|url=https://olconline.org/about-us|title=About Us – Out Loud Chorus|language=en-US|access-date=2019-10-07}}</ref> He was a former executive board member of Guild House ("A Campus Ministry").<ref name=":7">{{Cite web|url=https://aadl.org/node/244485|title=Guild House {{!}} Ann Arbor District Library|website=aadl.org|access-date=2019-10-07}}</ref>
Toy was a founding member of the [[Washtenaw County, Michigan|Washtenaw County]] LGBT Retirement Center Task Force, [[PFLAG]]/Ann Arbor, [[GLSEN]]/Ann Arbor-Ypsilanti Area, Washtenaw Rainbow Action Project (WRAP),<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/f/findaid/findaid-idx?cc=bhlead;c=bhlead;idno=umich-bhl-0268;didno=umich-bhl-0268;view=text|title=Washtenaw Rainbow Action Project Records|last=Project|first=Washtenaw Rainbow Action|website=quod.lib.umich.edu|access-date=2019-10-07}}</ref> Transgender Advocacy Project (TAP),<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.aclumich.org/en/aclu-michigan-transgender-advocacy-project|title=The ACLU of Michigan Transgender Advocacy Project|date=2015-09-03|website=ACLU of Michigan|language=en|access-date=2019-10-07}}</ref> [[American Friends Service Committee]] (AFSC) Inclusive Justice Program, Washtenaw Faith Action Network, Ypsilanti Human Rights PAC, Ypsilanti Rainbow Neighbors, and the Out Loud Chorus (1995).<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://olconline.org/about-us|title=About Us – Out Loud Chorus|language=en-US|access-date=2019-10-07}}</ref> He was a former executive board member of Guild House ("A Campus Ministry").<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://aadl.org/node/244485|title=Guild House {{!}} Ann Arbor District Library|website=aadl.org|access-date=2019-10-07}}</ref>


He was a trained mediator and trainer for the [[American Friends Service Committee]] Inclusive Justice Program's non-violent-dialogue training ("LARA"). He was a member of the Program Committee of the AFSC Michigan's Inclusive Justice Program. He served on [[Equality Michigan]]'s Board of Advisors<ref name=b1>{{cite web|url=http://tri.org/about/advisors.html |title=The Triangle Foundation Board of Advisors |accessdate=2012-04-04 |url-status=bot: unknown |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080512072952/http://tri.org/about/advisors.html |archivedate=May 12, 2008 }}.tri.org</ref> and the WikiQueer Global Advisory Board.<ref name="wq-advisory">{{cite web | url=http://www.wikiqueer.org/w/WikiQueer:Global_Advisory_Board | title=WikiQueer:Global Advisory Board | publisher=WikiQueer | accessdate=March 27, 2013 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120801185909/http://www.wikiqueer.org/w/WikiQueer%3AGlobal_Advisory_Board | archive-date=August 1, 2012 | url-status=dead }}</ref> He was a founding member of the gay Baroque trio, Rosetta Stoned, & The Higheroglyphics.
He was a trained mediator and trainer for the [[American Friends Service Committee]] Inclusive Justice Program's non-violent-dialogue training ("LARA"). He was a member of the Program Committee of the AFSC Michigan's Inclusive Justice Program. He served on [[Equality Michigan]]'s Board of Advisors<ref name=b1>{{cite web|url=http://tri.org/about/advisors.html |title=The Triangle Foundation Board of Advisors |accessdate=2012-04-04 |url-status=bot: unknown |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080512072952/http://tri.org/about/advisors.html |archivedate=May 12, 2008 }}.tri.org</ref> and the WikiQueer Global Advisory Board.<ref name="wq-advisory">{{cite web | url=http://www.wikiqueer.org/w/WikiQueer:Global_Advisory_Board | title=WikiQueer:Global Advisory Board | publisher=WikiQueer | accessdate=March 27, 2013 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120801185909/http://www.wikiqueer.org/w/WikiQueer%3AGlobal_Advisory_Board | archive-date=August 1, 2012 | url-status=dead }}</ref> He was a founding member of the gay Baroque trio, Rosetta Stoned, & The Higheroglyphics.
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The Washtenaw Rainbow Action Project (WRAP) is a local Ann Arbor resource center that exists to provide information, education, social events, and advocacy by and for the Queer and Ally community in the Washtenaw County area. In his honor, the center was renamed the Jim Toy Community Center (JTCC) in 2010.
The Washtenaw Rainbow Action Project (WRAP) is a local Ann Arbor resource center that exists to provide information, education, social events, and advocacy by and for the Queer and Ally community in the Washtenaw County area. In his honor, the center was renamed the Jim Toy Community Center (JTCC) in 2010.


His archives are housed in the James W. Toy Papers<ref name=":8">{{Cite web|url=https://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/f/findaid/findaid-idx?cc=bhlead;c=bhlead;idno=umich-bhl-9744;didno=umich-bhl-9744;view=text|title=James W. Toy Papers|last=Toy|first=James W.|website=quod.lib.umich.edu|access-date=2019-10-07}}</ref> at the University of Michigan's [[Bentley Historical Library]]. He was included in the Gallery of the LGBT Religious Archives Network (LGBT-RAN).<ref name=":9">{{cite web|url=http://www.lgbtran.org/Profile.aspx?ID=79Profiles |title=Gallery of the LGBT Religious Archives Network |publisher=Lgbt-Ran |date= |accessdate=2013-11-02}}</ref>
His archives are housed in the James W. Toy Papers<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/f/findaid/findaid-idx?cc=bhlead;c=bhlead;idno=umich-bhl-9744;didno=umich-bhl-9744;view=text|title=James W. Toy Papers|last=Toy|first=James W.|website=quod.lib.umich.edu|access-date=2019-10-07}}</ref> at the University of Michigan's [[Bentley Historical Library]]. He was included in the Gallery of the LGBT Religious Archives Network (LGBT-RAN).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.lgbtran.org/Profile.aspx?ID=79Profiles |title=Gallery of the LGBT Religious Archives Network |publisher=Lgbt-Ran |date= |accessdate=2013-11-02}}</ref>


==Personal life and death==
==Personal life and death==
Toy was born in New York City on April 29, 1930.<ref name="bentley">{{citation |url=http://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/f/findaid/findaid-idx?c=bhlead;idno=umich-bhl-9744;view=reslist;didno=umich-bhl-9744;subview=standard;focusrgn=bioghist;cc=bhlead;byte=83892085 |title=James W. Toy Papers: Biography |periodical=Bentley Historical Library, University of Michigan |accessdate=2007-09-12}}</ref> He died in Ann Arbor on January 1, 2022, at the age of 91.<ref name=":10">[https://www.mlive.com/news/ann-arbor/2022/01/michigans-first-openly-gay-man-prominent-ann-arbor-lgbtq-activist-dies-at-91.html Michigan’s first openly gay man, prominent Ann Arbor LGBTQ activist, dies at 91]</ref>
Toy was born in New York City on April 29, 1930.<ref name="bentley">{{citation |url=http://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/f/findaid/findaid-idx?c=bhlead;idno=umich-bhl-9744;view=reslist;didno=umich-bhl-9744;subview=standard;focusrgn=bioghist;cc=bhlead;byte=83892085 |title=James W. Toy Papers: Biography |periodical=Bentley Historical Library, University of Michigan |accessdate=2007-09-12}}</ref> He died in Ann Arbor on January 1, 2022, at the age of 91.<ref>[https://www.mlive.com/news/ann-arbor/2022/01/michigans-first-openly-gay-man-prominent-ann-arbor-lgbtq-activist-dies-at-91.html Michigan’s first openly gay man, prominent Ann Arbor LGBTQ activist, dies at 91]</ref>


==See also==
==See also==

Revision as of 15:56, 28 May 2024

For the baseball player, see Jim Toy (baseball).
Jim Toy
bisexual and transgender (LGBT) activist and educator
Known forGay Liberation Front, Lesbian-Gay Male Programs Office at the University of Michigan, Episcopal Diocese of Michigan Commission on Homosexuality

James Willis Toy[1] (April 29, 1930 – January 1, 2022) was a long-time American activist and a pioneer for LGBT rights in Michigan.[2]

Toy earned his B.A. at Denison University in 1951.[3] He graduated with a master's degree in Clinical Social Work from the University of Michigan and served as a pro bono counselor and therapist. At Michigan, Toy helped establish the Human Sexualty Office in 1971,[4] and was later affiliated with the campus Office of Institutional Equity.

In June 2001, Dennison awarded Toy with the Alumni Citation, the school's highest alumni honor,[3] and in 2013, he was featured as an early LGBT alumnus in the college's history.[5]

Michigan activism

Toy identified as being gay during his speech at an anti-Vietnam War rally in Kennedy Square, Detroit, in April 1970. At the rally, he was representing the Detroit Gay Liberation Front, of which he was a founding member.[6]

Ann Arbor and University of Michigan

Toy was a founding member of the Ann Arbor Gay Liberation Front. In 1971, he helped establish the Human Sexuality Office (HSO) at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Michigan. The HSO was the first staffed office at an institution of higher learning in the United States, and presumably the first of its kind in the world, to address and support sexual minorities. Toy served as its Co-Coordinator, and Gay Male advocate, from 1971 until 1994. The HSO, now named the Spectrum Center, has named its library in Toy's honor. The Jim Toy Library (JTL) currently hosts a collection of over 1500 titles and supports LGBTQA student development by exposing students to, and engaging them in the rich cultural, social, historical, psychological, political, and relational aspects of LGBTQ people, identities, experiences, and communities.

In 1972, Toy co-authored the first official "

Michigan Medicine
's Comprehensive Gender Services Program, wrote the language of Ann Arbor's non-discrimination policy regarding gender identity. With many others, Toy advocated successfully (1993–2007) for the amendment of the University of Michigan's non-discrimination bylaw so as to include gender identity and gender expression as protected categories.

Episcopal Diocese of Michigan

In 1971, Bishop Richard Emrich of the Episcopal Diocese of Michigan appointed Toy a founding member of the Diocesan Commission on Homosexuality. The group published the Report & Recommendations of the Commission on Homosexuality (1973), one of the earliest church documents in the United States to support the concerns of lesbigay people.

From 1975, Toy served as the Secretary of the Diocesan Church & Society Committee. He was a co-author of the Diocesan Human Sexuality Curriculum and was Secretary of the Diocesan Committee on Transgender/Bisexual/Lesbian/Gay/Concerns.

He was a founding board member of the Oasis TBLG Outreach Ministry of the Diocese and served as the secretary.

On Sunday, October 27, 2019, he was seated as Canon Honorary at the Cathedral Church of St. Paul, Detroit, at an Evensong for the Feast of Saints Simon and Jude.

LGBT health and wellness

Toy co-founded the Ann Arbor Gay Hotline in 1972 and served as its Coordinator and Trainer until 1985.[7]

In 1986, he helped found the Wellness Networks/Huron Valley, now known as Unified: HIV Health and Beyond.[8] He became the first Co-Coordinator of HIV/AIDS Education for the Episcopal Diocese of Michigan in 1987. He served as a certified Pre- & Post-Test HIV/AIDS Counselor and as a support group facilitator and volunteer trainer for Unified: HIV Health and Beyond. He was a founding member of the City of Ann Arbor HIV/AIDS Task Force and of two four-county HIV/AIDS prevention and resource-provision groups.

Additional organizations

Toy was a founding member of the Washtenaw County LGBT Retirement Center Task Force, PFLAG/Ann Arbor, GLSEN/Ann Arbor-Ypsilanti Area, Washtenaw Rainbow Action Project (WRAP),[9] Transgender Advocacy Project (TAP),[10] American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) Inclusive Justice Program, Washtenaw Faith Action Network, Ypsilanti Human Rights PAC, Ypsilanti Rainbow Neighbors, and the Out Loud Chorus (1995).[11] He was a former executive board member of Guild House ("A Campus Ministry").[12]

He was a trained mediator and trainer for the American Friends Service Committee Inclusive Justice Program's non-violent-dialogue training ("LARA"). He was a member of the Program Committee of the AFSC Michigan's Inclusive Justice Program. He served on Equality Michigan's Board of Advisors[13] and the WikiQueer Global Advisory Board.[14] He was a founding member of the gay Baroque trio, Rosetta Stoned, & The Higheroglyphics.

Acknowledgements

The Washtenaw Rainbow Action Project (WRAP) is a local Ann Arbor resource center that exists to provide information, education, social events, and advocacy by and for the Queer and Ally community in the Washtenaw County area. In his honor, the center was renamed the Jim Toy Community Center (JTCC) in 2010.

His archives are housed in the James W. Toy Papers[15] at the University of Michigan's Bentley Historical Library. He was included in the Gallery of the LGBT Religious Archives Network (LGBT-RAN).[16]

Personal life and death

Toy was born in New York City on April 29, 1930.[7] He died in Ann Arbor on January 1, 2022, at the age of 91.[17]

See also

References

  1. ^ "James Toy Obituary - Ann Arbor, MI".
  2. ^ Wang, Frances Kai-Hwa (2022-01-05). "Activists and historians remember Jim Toy as a pioneering leader in LGBTQ rights". PBS NewsHour.
  3. ^ a b "James W. Toy | Denison University Alumni". Denison University Alumni. Retrieved 2017-02-03.
  4. ^ "Jim Toy, One of Spectrum Center's Founders, Dies at 91". Spectrum Center.
  5. ^ "Open-Door Policy". Denison Magazine. Archived from the original on 2017-02-04. Retrieved 2017-02-03.
  6. ^ "Jim Toy | Profiles | LGBTQ Religious Archives Network". lgbtqreligiousarchives.org. Retrieved 2019-08-22.
  7. ^ a b "James W. Toy Papers: Biography", Bentley Historical Library, University of Michigan, retrieved 2007-09-12
  8. ^ "Unified - Home". www.miunified.org. Retrieved 2019-10-07.
  9. ^ Project, Washtenaw Rainbow Action. "Washtenaw Rainbow Action Project Records". quod.lib.umich.edu. Retrieved 2019-10-07.
  10. ^ "The ACLU of Michigan Transgender Advocacy Project". ACLU of Michigan. 2015-09-03. Retrieved 2019-10-07.
  11. ^ "About Us – Out Loud Chorus". Retrieved 2019-10-07.
  12. ^ "Guild House | Ann Arbor District Library". aadl.org. Retrieved 2019-10-07.
  13. ^ "The Triangle Foundation Board of Advisors". Archived from the original on May 12, 2008. Retrieved 2012-04-04.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link).tri.org
  14. ^ "WikiQueer:Global Advisory Board". WikiQueer. Archived from the original on August 1, 2012. Retrieved March 27, 2013.
  15. ^ Toy, James W. "James W. Toy Papers". quod.lib.umich.edu. Retrieved 2019-10-07.
  16. ^ "Gallery of the LGBT Religious Archives Network". Lgbt-Ran. Retrieved 2013-11-02.
  17. ^ Michigan’s first openly gay man, prominent Ann Arbor LGBTQ activist, dies at 91

External links

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