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Terry Goodwin
(May 24, 1955 - living) Canada

Terry Goodwin

Activist, farmer

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Born in Tatamagouche, Nova Scotia, raised in Amherst and educated at King's College School now King's Edgehill in Windsor, NS and Albert College in Belleville, Ontario, both boarding schools. University of Arizona in Tucson and Mount Allison located in Sackville, New Brunswick which has been voted several times as the best small university in Canada.

Terry GoodwinHe came out early in life and was swept up in the early days of the Gay Liberation Front. When Terry moved to Vancouver in 1977, he joined the Gay Alliance Towards Equality. Terry Goodwin was forced out of residence at Mount Allison University in the early 1970s after attempting to start a gay students' organization.

October 24, 1984, was a pivotal day in Terry's life - he discovered he had PCP, automatically giving him an AIDS diagnosis. After surviving that, the first bout of several opportunistic infections, and two bouts with cancer, the years leading up to '96 were busy taking on the government, bureaucrats, bigots, the naive and the media. In 1994 Terry was involved with the Senate Special Committee on Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide in Ottawa. The last project he worked on before leaving ASOs was the HIV/AIDS Survival Training Project which was presented as an abstract at the XI International Conferenceon AIDS.

Terry GoodwinWhen his long time companion (12 years) Don, the great love of his life passed away from AIDS-related illnesses, Terry decided to hand down the gauntlet to the younger, and returned to his homeland in Lunenburg, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Not wanting to totally give up working for social change, he found a new passion. Terry now works with adolescents with addiction problems, through the Youth Support Foundation which as of June, 1998 he am chair of (re-elected, June '99).

Currently they have started a 'farm project' where they are cultivating 40 acres for organic vegetables, herbs and flowers. Terry is also the Executive Director of the newly created Lunenburg Family Resource Centre. The Family Resource Centre received generous Federal funding from Human Resources Development Canada.

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