Linda Gardner is the HIV/STD Program Coordinator at the Bay Centre for Birth Control, Regional Women’s Health Centre, affiliated with Women’s College Hospital in Toronto. She is a longtime grassroots activist and has worked extensively with the Ontario Coalition for Abortion Clinics, March 8th Coalition and more recently with AIDS Action Now! Currently, she is the co-chair of the board of directors of the Community AIDS Treatment Information Exchange, and a member of the Gay Asian AIDS Project’s Advisory committee and the Hassle Free Clinic’s board of directors.