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Jim Toy Made LGBT History—and He’s Not Done Fighting

‘Grateful’

In 1971, Jim Toy founded the Human Sexuality Office at the University of Michigan with lesbian activist Cyndi Gair: an LGBT first. Now aged 88, he’s still fighting for equality.

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