1991 In 1991, Kingston AIDS Project received funding to do HIV/AIDS prevention work among injection drug users [1]. Initially, their work focused on providing education and working with local prisoners
Category: People’s History Project
1993 prison violence and a mother’s fight for justice On October 24th, 1993, prisoners within the Kingston Penitentiary began to protest after having gone twenty-one hours without being fed [1].
1977 Kingston’s first public gay rights protest The King’s Lounge, which later became the Toucan, opened its doors on March 1st, 1977 [1]. Its former incarnation as the Grand was
1989 “R.O.F.F.’s Watching” In October 1989, a group of male students put several derogatory signs up on the windows of their dorms in Gordon Hall to mock the “No Means