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This button was produced by Gay and Lesbians Against the Right Everywhere (GLARE) which organized the June 1981 Lesbian and Gay Pride march in Toronto, building on the mass resistance to the gay bathhouse raids earlier that year. The rally and march were focused on celebrating lesbian and gay lives and resisting a rising tide of right-wing bigotry, ongoing police violence, lesbian mothers losing custody of their children, firings of lesbian and gay workers, and censorship in the mainstream media. GLARE also organized against the visit of Anita Bryant to Toronto and for inclusive, anti-homophobia and gay-positive education at the Toronto Board of Education.