Danny (left) and Annie Sprinkle (right) having fun and making a scene at the World Whores Congress in Amsterdam, 1985. Photograph by Jacques Prayer, courtesy of Andrew Sorfleet.
ACT UP/Montreal formed in January 1990, six months after the Fifth International AIDS Conference. Danny’s influence and work with the PSSP can be seen in an early safer sex poster produced by ACT UP/Montreal that utilizes Danny’s writing translated…
Video excerpt featuring Danny from the 2016 documentary Our Bodies, Our Business by Geraldine George. Excerpted with permission from Triple-X Workers' Solidarity Association of British Columbia. Full video available here.
An example of one of the many HIV prevention posters created by the Prostitutes’ Safe Sex Project, this one featuring a photo of Danny Cockerline. Poster designed by Will Pritchard, 1990. Courtesy of Andrew Sorfleet.
“Safe Sex Slut” and “Safe Sex Ho!” buttons distributed by the Prostitutes’ Safe Sex Project in the mid to late 1980s, courtesy of Andrew Sorfleet.
Photo plaque of Danny Cockerline wearing a Prostitutes’ Safe Sex Project t-shirt at Toronto gay pride in June 1987. The plaque hung in the Maggie’s office until a fire in 2023 destroyed the building in which the organization was housed. Photograph by…
Announcement for the formal launch of the Prostitutes’ Safe Sex Project after it received funding from the City of Toronto Board of Public Health in 1988. From the estate of Christine Louise Bearchell, courtesy of executor Andrew Sorfleet.
Order form for HIV-prevention materials from what would later become known as the Prostitutes’ Safe Sex Project, circa mid-1980s. Courtesy of Andrew Sorfleet.
C-49 briefing prepared by Danny Cockerline and submitted to the Standing Committee on Justice on behalf of the CORP. From of the estate of Christine Louise Bearchell, courtesy of executor Andrew Sorfleet.
Danny Cockerline and friend fooling around in the Canadian Gay Archives (now The ArQuives) in 1990. Photograph by Gerald Hannon. From The Body Politic Fonds, courtesy of The ArQuives.
Danny Cockerline and friend fooling around in the Canadian Gay Archives (now The ArQuives) in 1990. Photograph by Gerald Hannon. From The Body Politic Fonds, courtesy of The ArQuives.
Danny Cockerline (right) and members of The Body Politic editorial collective at a meeting in 1983. From the Gerald Hannon Fonds, courtesy of The ArQuives.
Danny Cockerline (centre) and Chris Bearchell (right) at a Body Politic editorial collective meeting in 1983. From the Gerald Hannon Fonds, courtesy of The ArQuives.
Promotional poster for Toronto Lesbian and Gay Pride Day 1986, designed by Pei Lim, typeset by Chris Higgins, courtesy of the ArQuives.
Promotional poster for the first annual Toronto Gays in Health Care Health Fair (1984), designed by Pei-Hsien Lim, courtesy of the ArQuives.
Recruitment poster for the Toronto Gay Patrol (circa 1981), courtesy of the ArQuives.
Promotional poster for “Smashing Borders, Opening Spaces” (1985), the seventh annual conference of the International Gay Association, courtesy of the ArQuives, used with the permission of the International Lesbian and Gay Association.
“Butch Men Play with Anything,” drawing by Pei Lim (1984), first published in CelebrAsian, newsletter of Gay Asians Toronto, courtesy of the ArQuives.
Self-portrait in collage by Pei Lim (1980), courtesy of Gael MacLean.
Pei-Hsien Lim performs his dance “Reconnaissance” and explaining its significance, clip from the film Orientations: Lesbian and Gay Asians (1984), courtesy of Richard Fung.