Author(s)	Gerlad Hannon
Publisher	Cormorant Books
Publication Year	2022

ISBN: 9781770866027

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Immoral Indecent & Scurrilous

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The Making of an Unrepentant Sex Radical

When 18-year-old Gerald Hannon left the small pulp mill town of Marathon, Ontario to attend the University of Toronto, he never would have predicted he’d become part of LGBTQ2S+ history. Almost sixty years later, he reflects on the major moments in his career as a journalist and LGBTQ2S+ activist. From the charges of transmitting immoral, indecent, and scurrilous literature laid against him and his colleagues at The Body Politic to his dismissal from his teaching post at Ryerson University for being a sex worker, this memoir candidly chronicles Hannon’s life as an unrepentant sex radical.

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Gerlad Hannon

Gerald Hannon is a journalist and has been an LGBTQ+ rights activist since the 1960s. Hannon has won thirteen National Magazine Awards and written for the likes of The Body Politic, Xtra!, and Toronto Life. Originally from Marathon, ON, he now lives in Toronto.

Chapter	Contributors	Pages	Year	Price
Preface In this preface, Hannon presents his personal account of Toronto’s gay liberation movement from the 1970s onward. View	Gerlad Hannon	4	2022	$0.40
Marathon In this chapter, Hannon recounts his childhood in Marathon, Ontario, a small pulp-mill town on Lake Superior in the late 1940s and 1950s. View	Gerlad Hannon	34	2022	$3.40
St. Mike's and the City In this chapter, Hannon traces his disorienting first years at St. Michael’s College in Toronto during the early 1960s. View	Gerlad Hannon	27	2022	$2.70
Graduation and First Sex In this chapter, Hannon traces his years from 1966 to 1970, following his queer awakening in Toronto. View	Gerlad Hannon	25	2022	$2.50
A Year in Europe In this chapter, Hannon describes how he and his friend went on a year-long journey from Toronto to Mexico to England to Spain, spanning late 1970 to September 1971. View	Gerlad Hannon	15	2022	$1.50
The Body Politic: The Beginnings In this chapter, Hannon describes his return to Toronto in 1971 and his immersion in the city’s emerging gay liberation movement. View	Gerlad Hannon	14	2022	$1.40
The Body Politic: Summarized History In this chapter, Hannon traces his fifteen years of involvement with The Body Politic, a Toronto gay activist magazine that operated from 1971 to 1987. View	Gerlad Hannon	22	2022	$2.20
The Trial In this chapter, Hannon examines the 1979 trial of Gerald Hannon, Ed Jackson, and Ken Popert of Toronto’s The Body Politic, a radical gay newspaper charged with publishing … View	Gerlad Hannon	21	2022	$2.10
The Bathhouse Raids of 1981 In this chapter, Hannon recounts the 1981 police raids on Toronto bathhouses and the mass protest that followed. View	Gerlad Hannon	34	2022	$3.40
Making Ends Meet In this chapter, Hannon discusses his life after The Body Politic ceased publication in 1987. View	Gerlad Hannon	24	2022	$2.40
The Sex Ring that Wasn't In this chapter, Hannon discusses his 1995 Globe and Mail investigation into London, Ontario’s "sex ring." View	Gerlad Hannon	18	2022	$1.80
Queer in the Headlights In this chapter, Hannon describes his 1995 academic controversy at Ryerson when he was outed as a sex worker. View	Gerlad Hannon	55	2022	$5.50
Coda In this chapter, Hannon traces his Toronto life from 1990 to 2022, weaving together his musical career, his provocative journalism, and decades of queer activism with the Body Politic and Pink … View	Gerlad Hannon	21	2022	$2.10
Acknowledgements This "chapter" is an acknowledgements section. View	Gerlad Hannon	4	2022	$0.40

Immoral Indecent & Scurrilous

The Making of an Unrepentant Sex Radical

Contributors

Gerlad Hannon

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