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Toronto activist applauds U.K. move to pardon those convicted under past anti-gay laws

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Toronto activist applauds U.K. move to pardon those convicted under past anti-gay laws

2016-10-20T00:00:00-04:00October 20th, 2016|

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A Toronto Queer History à la Jackie Shane

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Kathryn Gamboa shares the legacy of Jackie Shane through items preserved at The ArQuives, where her bold presence helped shape the pulse of Toronto’s early queer scenes. Note on pronouns: I leave in the discrepancies between pronouns used by those who knew Jackie Shane when she had to publicly identify herself as a gay man to demonstrate how Jackie had [...]

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Raiding The Body Politic: The Legal Attack on Toronto’s Queer Press

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Sophie takes a dive into the raiding of The Body Politic, the community response, and privacy and censorship. Raiding the Office  On December 30, 1977 at 5 pm, four Metropolitan Toronto Police officers and one Ontario Provincial Police officer raided the office of Pink Triangle Press, the publisher of The Body Politic magazine1. The officers were armed with a search [...]

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