James Willis Toy (April 29, 1930 – January 1, 2022) was a long-time American activist and a pioneer for LGBT rights in Michigan. Toy earned his B.A. at Denison University in 1951. He graduated with a master's degree in Clinical Social Work from the University of Michigan and served as a pro bono counselor and therapist. At Michigan, Toy helped establish the Human Sexuality Office in 1971, and was later affiliated with the campus Office of Institutional Equity. In June 2001 Dennison awarded Toy with the Alumni Citation, the school's highest alumni honor, and in 2013 he was featured as an early LGBT alumnus in the college's history. Michigan activism Toy identified as being gay during his speech at an anti-Vietnam War rally in Kennedy Square, Detroit, in April 1970. At the rally, he was representing the Detroit Gay Liberation Front, of which he was a founding member. Ann Arbor and University of Michigan Toy was a founding member of the Ann Arbor Gay Liberation Front. In 1971, he helped establish the Human Sexuality Office (HSO) at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Michigan. The HSO was the first staffed office at an institution of higher learning in the United States, and presumably the first of its kind in the world, to address and support sexual minorities. Toy served as its Co-Coordinator, and Gay Male advocate, from 1971 until 1994. The HSO, now named the Spectrum Center, has named its library in Toy's honor. The Jim Toy Library (JTL) currently hosts a collection of over 1500 titles and supports LGBTQA student development by exposing students to, and engaging them in the rich cultural, social, historical, psychological, political, and relational aspects of LGBTQ people, identities, experiences, and communities. In 1972, Toy co-authored the first official "Lesbian-Gay Pride Week Proclamation" by a U.S. governing body, the Ann Arbor City Council. The same year, he co-authored the city's non-discrimination policy on sexual orientation. He participated (1973–1993) in the successful efforts to amend the University of Michigan's non-discrimination bylaw to include sexual orientation as a protected category. He engaged in the campaigns to create and retain the City of Ypsilanti's non-discrimination ordinance (1997–1998). In 1999, Toy and Dr. Sandra Cole, former Director of Michigan Medicine's Comprehensive Gender Services Program, wrote the language of Ann Arbor's non-discrimination policy regarding gender identity. With many others, Toy advocated successfully (1993–2007) for the amendment of the University