Amy Gottlieb (born 1953) is a Canadian queer activist, artist and educator. She was one of the organizers of the first

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(then called Lesbian and Gay Pride Day) in 1981. She was also an organizer of the Dykes on the Street March, organized by Lesbians Against the Right, which occurred in October of the same year.

Biography

Amy Gottlieb was born in 1953. Since the early 1970s, she has been involved in socialist and feminist activism. Her political involvement started with the

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and the

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. She met her first lesbian lover in 1973 and soon began to dedicate herself to queer causes as well. Since then, she has been an activist for numerous queer, Jewish, and artistic causes, including the Lesbian Organization of Toronto (LOOT), the Jewish Women's Committee to End the Occupation of the West Bank and Gaza, and MIX: the Magazine of Artist-Run Culture. In 2017, she published an essay discussing her experiences as an organizer of Toronto's first lesbian march titled "Toronto’s Unrecognized First Dyke March" in ''Any Other Way: How Toronto Got Queer'' (Coach House Books). Gottlieb's portrait was painted for

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in 1998.

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