The Canadian War On Queers

Author : Gary Kinsman,Patrizia Gentile
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 583 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2010-03-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780774859028

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The Canadian War on Queers by Gary Kinsman,Patrizia Gentile Pdf

From the 1950s to the late 1990s, agents of the state spied on, interrogated, and harassed gays and lesbians in Canada, employing social ideologies and other practices to construct their targets as threats to society. Based on official security documents and interviews with gays, lesbians, civil servants, and high-ranking officials, this path-breaking book discloses acts of state repression and forms of resistance that raise questions about just whose national security was being protected. Passionate and personalized, this account of how the state used the ideology of national security to wage war on its own people offers ways of understanding, and resisting, contemporary conflicts such as the "war on terror."

Author : Paul Jackson
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 551 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2010-03-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780773582651

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One of the Boys, Second Edition by Paul Jackson Pdf

Using a wide array of sources - including long-closed court martial records, psychiatric and personnel files, unit war diaries, films, and oral histories - Paul Jackson relates the struggle of queer servicemen of all ranks and branches of the Canadian military to fit in to avoid losing their careers and reputations. He argues that even though homosexual men were often accepted and popular within their units, if they were accused of homosexual behaviour, they were subjected to psychiatric assessments, courts-martial proceedings, prison terms, and dishonourable discharges. An influential and eye-opening study, the author has updated this critically acclaimed work with a new preface that considers depictions of soldiers serving in the war in Afghanistan and the continued silence about homosexual servicemen and women.

Author : Manon Tremblay
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 373 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2019-11-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780774861847

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Queering Representation by Manon Tremblay Pdf

Political representation requires participation: voting, joining political parties, running as candidates, acting as politicians. Yet the election of openly LGBTQ people is a relatively recent phenomenon in the West. Queering Representation explores long-ignored issues relating to LGBTQ voters and politicians in Canada. What are the LGBTQ electorate’s characteristics and voting behaviours? What part do the media play in framing straight voters’ perceptions of out LGBTQ politicians? What pathways to power do LGBTQ politicians follow? Do they represent LGBTQ people and communities, and if so, how is this role articulated? And finally, how do Canadian party ideologies shape LGBTQ representation?

Author : Tim McCaskell
Publisher : Between the Lines
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2018-07-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781771132794

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Queer Progress by Tim McCaskell Pdf

Author : Richard Cavell
Publisher : Green College Thematic Lecture
Page : 62 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 0802036767

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Love, Hate, and Fear in Canada's Cold War by Richard Cavell Pdf

A major theme emerging from Love, Hate, and Fear in Canada's Cold War is that many issues associated with the Cold War in Canada actually preceded World War II and continue to haunt us today.

Author : Christopher Dummitt,Christabelle Sethna
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2020-04-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780774862455

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No Place for the State by Christopher Dummitt,Christabelle Sethna Pdf

“There’s no place for the state in the bedrooms of the nation,” Pierre Elliott Trudeau told reporters. He was making the case for the most controversial of his proposed reforms to the Criminal Code, those concerning homosexuality, birth control, and abortion. In No Place for the State, contributors offer complex and often contrasting perspectives as they assess how the 1969 Omnibus Bill helped shape sexual and moral politics in Canada. Fifty years later, the origins and legacies of the bill are equivocal and the state still seems interested in sexual regulation. This incisive study explains why that matters.

Author : Gary Kinsman,Dieter K. Buse,Mercedes Steedman
Publisher : Between the Lines
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2000-10-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781926662749

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Whose National Security? by Gary Kinsman,Dieter K. Buse,Mercedes Steedman Pdf

Would you believe that RCMP operatives used to spy on Tupperware parties? In the 1950s and ’60s they did. They also monitored high school students, gays and lesbians, trade unionists, left-wing political groups, feminists, consumer’s associations, Black activists, First Nations people, and Quebec sovereigntists. The establishment of a tenacious Canadian security state came as no accident. On the contrary, the highest levels of government and the police, along with non-governmental interests and institutions, were involved in a concerted campaign. The security state grouped ordinary Canadians into dozens of political stereotypes and labelled them as threats. Whose National Security? probes the security state’s ideologies and hidden agendas, and sheds light on threats to democracy that persist to the present day. The contributors’ varied approaches open up avenues for reconceptualizing the nature of spying.

Author : Craig Jennex,Nisha Eswaran
Publisher : Figure 1 Publishing
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2023-09-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781773272481

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Out North by Craig Jennex,Nisha Eswaran Pdf

The ArQuives, the largest independent LGBTQ2+ archive in the world, is dedicated to collecting, preserving, and celebrating the stories and histories of LGBTQ2+ people in Canada. Since 1973, volunteers have amassed a vast collection of important artifacts that speak to personal experiences and significant historical moments for Canadian queer communities. Out North: An Archive of Queer Activism and Kinship in Canada is a fascinating exploration and examination of one nation’s queer history and activism, and Canada’s definitive visual guide to LGBTQ2+ movements, struggles, and achievements.

Author : John Paul Brammer
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2022-06-07
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781982141516

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Hola Papi by John Paul Brammer Pdf

The popular LGBTQ advice columnist and writer presents a memoir-in-essays chronicling his journey growing up as a queer, mixed-race kid in America's heartland to becoming the "Chicano Carrie Bradshaw" of his generation.

Author : Terry Goldie
Publisher : arsenal pulp press
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2002-07-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781551523989

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In a Queer Country by Terry Goldie Pdf

A groundbreaking collection of fourteen essays on the struggles, pleasures, and contradictions of queer culture and public life in Canada. Versed in queer social history as well as leading-edge gay and lesbian studies, queer theory, and post-colonial studies, In a Queer Country confronts queer culture from various perspectives relevant to international audiences. Topics range from the politics of the family and spousal rights to queer black identity, from pride parade fashions to lesbian park rangers.

Author : Stephen D'Arcy
Publisher : Between the Lines
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781771131070

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Languages of the Unheard by Stephen D'Arcy Pdf

What we must see, Martin Luther King once insisted, is that a riot is the language of the unheard. In this new era of global protest and popular revolt, Languages of the Unheard draws on King's insight to address a timely and controversial topic: the ethics and politics of militant resistance. Using vivid examples from the history of militancy including—armed actions by Weatherman and the Red Brigades, the LA Riots, the Zapatista uprising, the Mohawk land defence at Kanesatake, the Black Blocs at summit protests, the occupations of Tahrir Square and Zuccotti Park, the Indigenous occupation of Alcatraz, the Quebec Student Strike, and many more—this book will be of interest to democratic theorists and moral philosophers, and practically useful for protest militants attempting to grapple with the moral ambiguities and political dilemmas unique to their distinctive position.

Author : Peter Knegt
Publisher : Fernwood Publishing
Page : 111 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2011-09-01T00:00:00Z
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781552665138

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About Canada: Queer Rights by Peter Knegt Pdf

Is Canada a “queer utopia”? Canada was the fourth country in the world – and the first in the Western Hemisphere – to legalize same-sex marriage. Queer people in Canada enjoy many of the same legal rights as heterosexuals, and social acceptance of homosexuality has grown exponentially. But are these the goals that queer activists hoped to achieve? Is this legal regulation and normalization of homosexuality what the lesbian and gay liberation movement of the early 1970s fought for? Using the origins of this movement as a starting point, About Canada: Queer Rights examines the history of the struggle for queer rights in Canada to create a better understanding of the present. What Peter Knegt finds is that Canada’s queer people are as diverse and multicultural as Canada itself – they are not easily generalized and have most certainly not achieved equality.

Author : Manon Tremblay
Publisher : University of British Columbia Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Bisexuals
ISBN : 0774829079

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Queer Mobilizations by Manon Tremblay Pdf

Ever since certain homosexual acts were decriminalized in 1969, queer activists have fought for - and won - a series of public policy battles in governments across Canada. As Queer Mobilizations shows, anti-discrimination legislation, the extension of benefits to same-sex couples, the right to marry, adoption rights, and the protection of gay-straight alliances in schools did not result from a single act nor from the work of a single organization but rather from the concerted efforts of many people, in many places, over many years.

Author : Patrizia Gentile,Gary William Kinsman,L. Pauline Rankin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Gay rights
ISBN : 0774833351

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We Still Demand! by Patrizia Gentile,Gary William Kinsman,L. Pauline Rankin Pdf

We Still Demand! recovers the vibrant histories of sex and gender activism across Canada from the 1970s to the present. Highlighting queer, trans, sex-worker, and feminist struggles, this activist history focuses on remembering these struggles and on rethinking the boundaries of sex and gender activism and scholarship. By recovering the history of activism and outlining contemporary challenges, We Still Demand! provides a vital rewriting of the history of sex and gender activism in Canada that will enlighten current struggles and activate new forms of resistance.

Author : Thomas E. Warner
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2002-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0802084605

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Never Going Back by Thomas E. Warner Pdf

Drawing on interviews with leading gay and lesbian activists across Canada, Warner chronicles and analyzes a tumultuous grassroots struggle for sexual liberation, legislated equality, and fundamental social change.