Jearld Moldenhauer

Jearld Frederick Moldenhauer (born August 9, 1946) is a Canadian gay activist and businessperson who is the founder of the University of Toronto Homophile Association (UTHA), the Cornell Student Homophile League and The Body Politic gay liberation journal. He is also a founding member of Toronto Gay Action (TGA), and the Toronto Gay Alliance toward Equality (GATE). On February 13, 1972, he became the first gay liberation representative to address a political party conference in Canada when he addressed a convention of The Waffle, a left-wing faction of the New Democratic Party.

In 1973 he began collecting the books, newspapers and ephemera that seeded and grew into the Canadian Lesbian & Gay Archives. He opened Glad Day Bookshop, the first gay and lesbian bookstore in Canada, in 1970 and operated it until 1991 when he sold the store to John Scythes. Glad Day Bookshop Toronto is considered the oldest gay/lesbian bookshop in the world.