Jim Toy
James W. "Jim" Toy, born April 29, 1930 in New York City, is a long-time LGBT activist, considered a pioneer among LGBT activists in Michigan.
He holds a Master’s degree in Clinical Social Work from the University of Michigan and serves as a pro bono counselor and therapist. Toy underwent bureaucratic retirement in 2008 from the University of Michigan as the diversity coordinator in the Office of Institutional Equity.
Read more about Jim Toy: Michigan Activism, Acknowledgements
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“Just kids! Thats about the craziest argument Ive ever heard. Every criminal in the world was a kid once. What does it prove?”
—Theodore Simonson. Irvin S. Yeaworth, Jr.. Jim Bird, The Blob, responding to the suggestion that they not lock up the teens pulling the alien prank, (1958)
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