GCDC is the former Gay Community Dance Committee. It acted as an umbrella organization to help a growing collection of Toronto- area gay community groups raise funds by holding larger dances than each group could successfully do themselves. According to Liberation on the Dance Floor the group “held over fifty dances between 1981 and 1992” – and the Sisters volunteered to help prepare snacks and/or do a shift pulling beers for most of them. A major source of funds.
We posed for the portrait (click to embig it) at one of their dances. This print in on display at The Arquives in Toronto. Now that I’ve backed home I will visit it. The photographer is Jake Peters- if I knew any of their social media accounts I would gladly share them. The signature includes “1984”.
My copy of that portrait is still somewhere in Columbus OH- unless the person who took it ‘to have it framed’ has destroyed it. It’s perhaps the most precious thing they took from me, along with a small sum. As I mentioned to the person who shared this pic, it is a “prompt to revisit that glorious, painful, time” ministering to the gathered fruitful, and contributing as I could to the fight for our lives.
