[3] 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.

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.

In 1972, Toy co-authored the first official "Lesbian-Gay Pride Week Proclamation" by a U.S. governing body, the Ann Arbor City Council.

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.

In 1971, Bishop Richard Emrich of the Episcopal Diocese of Michigan appointed Toy a founding member of the Diocesan Commission on Homosexuality.

The group published the Report & Recommendations of the Commission on Homosexuality (1973), one of the earliest church documents in the United States to support the concerns of lesbigay people.

On Sunday, October 27, 2019, he was seated as Canon Honorary at the Cathedral Church of St. Paul, Detroit, at an Evensong for the Feast of Saints Simon and Jude.

He served as a certified Pre- & Post-Test HIV/AIDS Counselor and as a support group facilitator and volunteer trainer for Unified: HIV Health and Beyond.