LGBTQIA Nonfiction

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Queer Nation?

Queer Nation?

From: In a Queer Country

"Queer Nation?" offer s an historical overview of gay and lesbian practices in Canada, with some suggestions that they reflect a nation al character. The approach of the article was … 25 $0.50 Add
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Desh Pardesh: A Cultural Festival with Attitude

Desh Pardesh: A Cultural Festival with Attitude

From: Any Other Way

Sharon Fernandez recalls the Rise and Fall of Desh Paresh, a popular cultural festival for Toronto’s LGBTQ community. 4 $0.40 Add
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Redesigning Wreck:

Redesigning Wreck:

Beach Meets Forest as Location of Male Homoerotic Culture & Placemaking in Pacific Canada

From: In a Queer Country

Gordon Brent Ingram turns to a place in which gay men both define their identities through an assertion of territory and engage in the sexuality that makes them what they are. This essay … 26 $0.52 Add
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The Hidden Cameras and Their Gay Church Folk

The Hidden Cameras and Their Gay Church Folk

From: Any Other Way

A discussion of the Toronto indie scene, centred around Torontopia, a movement that peaked in the early 2000’s. 3 $0.30 Add
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And the Stars Look Very Different Today

And the Stars Look Very Different Today

From: Any Other Way

Jennifer Coffey describes her experience with the drag scene in Toronto in the 1970’s 3 $0.30 Add
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Dyke Fight at the Blue Jay

Dyke Fight at the Blue Jay

From: Any Other Way

Cathi Bond recalls a couple of eventful nights in Toronto in the 1970’s 3 $0.30 Add
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Toronto City Council in Motion: Three Tentative Steps Toward Recognition

Toronto City Council in Motion: Three Tentative Steps Toward Recognition

From: Any Other Way

Three key motions made by the Toronto City council to pave the way towards and end to discrimination against LGBTQ people. 1 $0.10 Add
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Sex, Scandal, and Punishment in Early Toronto

Sex, Scandal, and Punishment in Early Toronto

From: Any Other Way

Looking back to pre-confederation Ontario, this section provides accounts of the scandals and political machinations that ensued when prominent gentlemen were found to be consorting with other men. ; 5 $0.50 Add
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Sins Invalid’s Origin Story

Sins Invalid’s Origin Story

From: Crip Kinship

Topics discussed include crip beauty and sexuality, ableism, historical eugenics, assumptions about disabled folks, intersectionality, medicalization, disability justice, activism through … 14 $1.40 Add
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Siting Lesbians:

Siting Lesbians:

Urban Spaces and Sexuality

From: In a Queer Country

In "Siting Lesbians: Urban Spaces and Sexuality," Catherine Nash discusses the complement to Ingram’s study. He considers gay males seeking pleasure in the wide outdoors while … 27 $0.54 Add
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Six Nights in the Albert Lane, 1917

Six Nights in the Albert Lane, 1917

From: Any Other Way

The transcription of police testimony given in court after a series of arrests were made in the Albert Lane in the spring of 1917 3 $0.30 Add
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Sowing Seeds from My Ancestors, Planting Seeds for My Descendants

Sowing Seeds from My Ancestors, Planting Seeds for My Descendants

Interview with Sean Saifa Wall

From: The Care We Dream Of

The author inverviews Sean Saifa Wall, a Black queer intersex activist, visual artist, and rising scholar. Saifa is committed to racial equity and a radical vision of bodily autonomy for intersex … 14 $1.40 Add
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An Experiment in Alternative Living: Washington Avenue

An Experiment in Alternative Living: Washington Avenue

From: Any Other Way

Diana Meridith recalls the experience of livng in a lesbian collective house in downtown Toronto in the 1980s. 3 $0.30 Add
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Steps to Gentrification

Steps to Gentrification

From: Any Other Way

Allison Bergess recounts the story of The Steps, which were constructed in 1984 and became a victim of gentrification twenty years later. 3 $0.30 Add
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Storytelling as Activism, as Crip-Centric Strategy

Storytelling as Activism, as Crip-Centric Strategy

From: Crip Kinship

Topics discussed include storytelling as a form of activism, silencing of the disabled and ill, empowering and using one’s own voice, historical lineages of oppression, mapping community, … 15 $1.50 Add
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Tabloid Journalism and the Rise of a Gay Press in Toronto

Tabloid Journalism and the Rise of a Gay Press in Toronto

From: Any Other Way

Donald McLeod describes how the first queer representation in the city’s press occurred in the tabloids. 3 $0.30 Add