Rick Bébout 1950 – 2010
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Arriving in Toronto as an American immigrant, Bébout joined the Body Politic in 1977. He spent considerable time and energy to chronicling the history of both the paper and the gay rights movement. In 2000, he published Promiscuous Affections: A Life in the Bar, 1969-2000. He has also been involved in writing much of the history of the Body Politic, which he has published online. Bébout was a central figure through much of the early Canadian LGBT Human Rights Movement, and was considered to be one of Canada’s finest LGBT journalists.