{"value"=>"<p> This series contains holograph notebooks with printed matter, photographs, correspondence, and ephemera interleaved within the entries. The majority of the diaries are from late-1970s to the early-1980s, thus documenting Hardy's life in Canada as a writer, editor, and activist, and his move to Europe where he lived in France, Germany, and the Netherlands. Entries discuss Hardy's life abroad, his friends, family, work, his sexual encounters and fantasies, as well as trace the development of his ideas on male sexuality, the gay community, and the affect of AIDS on both.</p>"}