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Coming Out was a Canadian television series, which aired on Maclean-Hunter's cable community channel in Toronto in 1972. [1] It was the first Canadian television program targeted specifically to a lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community audience.

The program, a 13-episode documentary and interview series, profiled LGBT people living in Toronto in the earliest years of the gay rights movement. [1] It was hosted by Paul Pearce and Sandra Dick of the Community Homophile Association of Toronto, [1] and premiered on September 11, 1972. [1]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "Gay Television Series". The Body Politic , Vol. 6 (Autumn 1972). p. 22.