1. Against the Current
   Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
   First Published: 1986
   Bi-monthly magazine oriented toward movements for social and economic justice; radical, socialist and feminist in orientation.
2. Allan Bérubé, 1946-2007
   Against The Current vol. 135
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 2008
   An inspiring and broad-ranging queer historian, Allan Bérubé died at the age of 61 on December 11, 2007. He left us with major contributions of exciting historical work, but also important unfinished work that needs to be continued.
3. The Art of Activism
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 1997
   The unique style of 'protest as performance' pioneered by the queer rights group OutRage!
4. The Body Politic
   Gay Liberation Journal
   Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
   First Published: 1977
   Serious tabloid foucsing on political and social issues related to the gay struggle in Canada and in other countries.
5. Call Me Kuchu
   Resource Type: Film/Video
   First Published: 2012
   In Uganda, a new bill threatens to make homosexuality punishable by death. David Kato - Uganda's first openly gay man - and his fellow activists work against the clock to defeat the legislation while combating vicious persecution in their daily lives. But no one, not even the filmmakers, is prepared for the brutal murder that shakes the movement to its core and sends shock waves around the world.
6. Canadian Information Sharing Service
   Volume 1, Number 6 - March 1977
   Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
   First Published: 1977
   
7. The Canadian War on Queers 
   National Security as Sexual Regulation
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 2010
   From the 1950s to the late 1990s, agents of the Canadian state spied on, interrogated, and harassed gays and lesbians in a series of so-called national security campaigns. This book traces this history, revealing acts of state repression and forms of social resistance.
8. Carol L. McAllister (1947-2007)
   Against The Current vol. 131
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 2007
   I remember meeting Carol on a public transit bus, I believe in 1980 –- when, almost out of the blue, she approached me and started talking to me about Central America. She recognized me from some earlier meeting on repression and revolution in Central America and wanted to know if, by any chance, I had been in the audience viewing a documentary on women in El Salvador that she had just seen (I hadn’t) and if I would mind if she shared some thoughts about it.
9. The Case for Socialism 
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 2005   Published: 2010
   An argument for socialism: a society built from the bottom up through the struggles of ordinary people against exploitation, oppression, and injustice -- one in which people come before profit. A society based on the principles of equality, democracy, and freedom.
10. Catholic Coalition for Gay Civil Rights
    Organization profile published 1981
    Resource Type: Organization
    First Published: 1981
    Inactive/Defunct Organization
    
11. CEMB march at Pride 2018 in London: A Victory against Islamism
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2018
    Council of Ex-Muslims of Britain marched in Pride in London on 7 July for LGBT rights in countries under Islamic rule; in 15 states or territories, homosexuality is punishable by death. The march was a victory against Islamist forces in Britain like Mend and East London Mosque that tried and failed to stop CEMB from marching with accusations of 'Islamophobia' aimed at imposing de facto blasphemy and apostasy laws.
12. Coalition For Gay Rights In Ontario
    Organization profile published 1984
    Resource Type: Organization
    First Published: 1984
    Inactive/Defunct Organization
    
13. Coming out in Kenya
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2009
    Rape has always been used to intimidate assertive women in Kenya, like feminists and female politicians.
14. Connexions
    Volume 4, Number 1 - February 1979 - National Security/Securite Nationale
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1979
    
15. Connexions
    Volume 5, Number 4 - October 1980 - Health/Sante
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1980
    
16. Connexions
    Volume 6, Number 1 - February 1981 - Lesbians/Gay Men/Lesbiennes/Hommes Gais
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1981
    
17. Connexions
    Volume 6, Number 3 - September 1981 - Atlantic Development/Le Developpement Atlantique
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1981
    
18. Connexions
    Volume 6, Number 5 - January 1982 - Children/Enfants
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1982
    
19. Connexions
    Volume 7, Number 3 - July 1982 - Prairie Region/Region des Prairies
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1982
    
20. Connexions
    Volume 8, Number 1 - Spring 1983 - Women and Men
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1983
    
21. Connexions
    Volume 9, Number 2 - Summer 1984 - Rights and Liberties - A Digest of Resources & Groups for Social
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1984
    
22. Connexions
    Volume 9, Number 3 - Fall 1984 - Housing - A Digest of Resources and Groups for Social Change
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1984
    
23. Connexions
    Volume 11, Number 1 - Spring 1987 - A Digest of Resources and Groups for Social Change
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1987
    
24. Connexions
    Volume 11, Number 2 - Winter 1988 - A Social Change Sourcebook
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1988
    
25. Connexions Annual 1994
    A Sourcebook of Social and Environmental Alternatives
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1994
    Simultaneously a reference book and an introduction to the world of social and environmental alternatives. The bulk of the Annual is devoted to listings of grassroots groups. It also contains a series of introductory articles surveying a wide range of social and environmental issues and possibile alternatives.
    
26. Connexions Annual Resource and Reading List
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1989   Published: 1994
    A short and selective list of resources on issues addressed in the Connexions Annual, such as environment, education, peace, interntional development, women's issues, urban issues, housing, human rights, civil liberties, social change.
27. Connexions Digest
    Issue 50 - December 1989 - A Social Change Sourcebook
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1989
    
28. Connexions Digest
    Issue 51 - May 1990 - A Social Change Sourcebook
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1990
    
29. Connexions Digest
    Issue 52 - August 1990 - A Social Change Sourcebook
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1990
    
30. Connexions Digest
    Issue 54 - February 1992- A Social Change Sourcebook
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1992
    
31. Connexions Library: Lesbians, Gays, Bi-sexuals Focus 
    Resource Type: Website
    Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on gays, lesbians, bisexuals.
32. Defiance with Freedom in Mind
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1994
    The case for civil disobedience.
33. The Early Homosexual Rights Movement (1864-1935)
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1974   Published: 1995
    
34. El Salvador's New War: Lesbian/Gay Activism Confronts "Social Cleansing"
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1999
    Queer activism and visibility are on the rise in El Salvador and throughout Latin America, coupled with an alarming increase in repression against queers and queer activists. In May of this year, Karla, a seventeen-year-old transvestite active in El Salvadors gay rights movement, was abducted off the street and assassinated death-squad style.
35. Flaunting It!
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1982
    An anthology of articles spanning the first decade of the Canadian gay liberation periodical, The Body Politic.
36. Gay Liberation
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    The name used to describe the radical lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender movement of the late 1960s and early to mid 1970s in North America, Western Europe, and Australia and New Zealand.
37. Gay Liberation Front
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    The name of a number of Gay Liberation groups.
38. Gay Marriage Yes!
    Against The Current vol. 110
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2004
    Any doubts about the meaning of the struggle for the right of gay and lesbian marriage should have disappeared forever when Mayor Gavin Newsom of San Francisco opened the marriage bureau at city hall to same-sex couples.
39. Gay Men and the Sexual History of the Political Left
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1995
    
40. Gay rights movement
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    Lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender social movements share inter-related goals of social acceptance of sexuality and gender minorities.
41. Gays and the Left
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1997
    The contemporary movement for lesbian/gay liberation was born out of the ferment of the New Left. Its leftist roots were openly acknowledged. Leading theorists identified with one socialist or communist current or another. They acknowledged their debt to Marxism as well as feminism and psychoanalysis. Times have obviously changed. While lesbian/gay movements have grown and won some significant victories in the past quarter-century, the socialist left has shrunk to a shadow of what it was. Unsurprisingly, lesbian/gay spokespeople and theorists are less likely to identify with the anti- capitalist left than they used to be.
42. How Laws Assault Queer People (book review)
    Against The Current vol. 156
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2012
    Queer (In)Justice is authored by Joey Mogul, a partner at the People’s Law Office in Chicago and director of DePaul University’s Civil Rights Clinic; Andrea Ritchie, an attorney and organizer who works on issues of police misconduct; and Kay Whitlock, an organizer and writer around structural injustices.
43. How We Changed Toronto
    The inside story of twelve creative, tumultuous years in civic life, 1969-1980
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2015
    By the mid-1960s Toronto was well on its way to becoming Canada's largest and most powerful city. One real estate firm aptly labelled it Boomtown. Expressways, subways, shopping centres, high-rise apartments, and skyscraping downtown office towers were transforming the city. City officials were cheerleaders for unrestricted growth.
44. Idealism, Pride & Anger- The Beginnings of Lesbian and Gay Liberation in Britain
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1989
    A glorious chaotic enthusiasm. At times, shocking. Always unapologetic and defiant. An exhilarating mixture of idealism, pride, anger, bravado and imagination.
45. Istanbul's LGBT pride march violently disbanded by police
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    As Americans celebrate a momentous step forward for the LGBT movement, Turkish gay pride marchers were met with rubber bullets and water cannons from the police. While uncharacteristic of the police force, these violent acts are, unfortunately, in line with the general atmosphere in Turkey. There is an ever-growing epidemic of violent homophobia and transphobia in the country.
46. It's Your Move
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1980
    
47. I've changed my mind on the gay cake row. Here's why
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2016
    Like most gay and equality campaigners, I initially condemned the Christian-run Ashers Bakery in Belfast over its refusal to produce a cake with a pro-gay marriage slogan for a gay customer, Gareth Lee. I supported his legal claim against Ashers and the subsequent verdict – the bakery was found guilty of discrimination last year. Now, two days before the case goes to appeal, I have changed my mind. Much as I wish to defend the gay community, I also want to defend freedom of conscience, expression and religion.
48. Legalizing Same-Sex Marriage: What is at Stake?
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2008
    There are good people on either side of the same-sex marriage debate. Unfortunately, however, it has been one of the most divisive issues in society. Opponents of same-sex marriage perceive the other side as part of a cabal of gay activists and social-engineering judges and politicians, intent on making a mockery of important social values. Proponents of same-sex marriage often perceive the other side as "homophobic" bigots or religious fundamentalists who want to deprive gay or lesbian couples of a right enjoyed by others because they hate homosexuals. The debate over same-sex marriage has divided people who share common values and beliefs on many fundamental questions--war and peace, economic security, democracy versus the increasingly anti-democratic and repressive nature of American society. This divisive debate cripples the ability of ordinary Americans to unite around the things that we agree on.
49. Marriage and the Capitalist State
    For the Right of Gay Marriage...and Divorce!
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2004
    Gays and lesbians ought to have the right to marry - but they shouldn't have to.
50. Mattachine Society
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    One of the earliest lasting homophile organizations in the United States, founded in 1950.
51. 'The movement is ours!': Lesbian activist critique
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2008
    We have recently claimed a right to reciprocity in the support of our struggles, but how many in the Queer rights movement have actively worked for the liberation of those groups whose endorsement we demand?
52. New Democracy Internet site
    Resource Type: Website
    Supports a democratic revolution to overthrow corporate capitalism, but opposes socialism. Features short articles on labour issues, the deficit, education.
53. The New Sexual Radicalism
    Socialist Feminist Questions About Queer Activism
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2010
    What are the social origins of queer? Does this current have a vision - whether implicit or explicit - of sexual liberation, and if so, what is it? What is its relationship to such emancipatory projects as feminism, antiracism, global justice and socialism?
54. The Nigerians Who Dare to Speak of Love as a Tide of Anti-gay Hatred Rises
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2014
    A new crackdown on gender minorities has led to arrests and fears of mob violence. But a brave few are still fighting for sexual freedom.
55. Nobody's Business
    The Paradoxes of Privacy
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1990
    
56. On Lesbian/Gay Liberation
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2003
    The link between the oppression of LGBT people and women's oppression is key to our understanding and the struggles for liberation are consequently closely linked.
57. The Political Is Political: In Conversation With Yasmin Nair
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2016
    An activist and writer based in Chicago, Nair is one of the founders of Against Equality, a group that was born in 2009, initially as an online archive of pieces that were critical of the gay-marriage movement and mainstream gay politics.
58. Queer Anarchist Network
    Organization profile published 1988
    Resource Type: Organization
    First Published: 1988
    Inactive/Defunct Organization
    
59. Queer Progress
    From Homophobia to Homonationalism
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2016
    A political memoir by a leading gay rights and AIDS activist.
60. Queer theories and militant practices
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2009
    A critical look at queer theories.
61. Radical Faeries
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    A loosely affiliated worldwide network of queer people seeking to "reject hetero-imitation" and redefine gay identity.
62. Rise of the naked female warriors
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2013
    Known for its topless protesters, Femen is a worldwide movement against patriarchy. But are the activists' breasts obscuring the message?
63. Rolling Back Reconstruction
    Against The Current vol. 159
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2012
    The 'Reconstruction Amendments” — the 13th, 14th and 15th amendments to the United States Constitution — are targeted in many of the Tea Party and far-right Republican campaigns against the rights of immigrants and women, marriage equality and LGBT rights, and voting rights for African Americans and other minority ethnic groups.
64. Selfish Activism or Equal Rights for All?
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1993
    The separatist agendas of women, gays, black and disabled activists are divisive, and undermine the campaign for equality.
65. Sexual Minorities Out South Sexual minorities in the Majority World
    New Internationalist October 2000
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 2000
    Why and how sexual minirities are persecuted throughout the South. As well as religion, minorities are a threat to the nuclear family (the most manageable social unit) and a convenient scapegoat. Articles on Africa, India, Muslim countries and the spread of HIV.
66. Social Movements/Social Change
    The Politics and Practice of Organizing - Socialist Studies 4
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1988
    This collection of essays covers movements related to labour, ecology, childcare, peace, disability, gay rights, and access to abortion.
67. Stonewall riots
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    A series of spontaneous, violent demonstrations against a police raid that took place in the early morning hours of June 28, 1969, at the Stonewall Inn, in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of New York City.
68. Stop hate rape!
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2014
    Hate crimes, homophobia and discrimination against queer people are global phenomena that are common practice. This situation is especially experienced in Africa and the Middle East where harsh and punitive legislation and policies are authorised and endorsed. The lack of democracy, or the protection thereof, also perpetuates extreme human rights abuses, which often takes the form of physical assault.
69. Storming Heaven
    1968 Revisted
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2008
    The eruptions of 1968 challenged the power structures north and south, east and west. Countries in each continent were infected with the desire for change. Hope reigned supreme.
    
70. Théories et militantismes queer : réflexion à partir de l'exemple français
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2009
    
71. Time for Civil Disobedience
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1990
    The lesbian and gay movement should be committed to a strategy of non-violent civil disobedience to force the repeal of Britain's discriminatory anti-homosexual laws.
72. Time to Abandon Gay Rights
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1999
    Thirty years after the Stonewall Riots, comprehensive human rights laws - not gay rights - are the way forward.
73. The Times of Harvey Milk
    Resource Type: Film
    First Published: 1984
    A look at the career and assassination of San Francisco's first elected gay councilor.
74. Uncovering the Sixties
    Life and Times of the Undergound Press
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1985
    A book about the Sixties and how they were recorded by radical participants. It traces how movements and communities convinced that their news did not fit into the agenda of mainstream media covered themselves in print.
75. Warped
    Gay Normality and Queer Anti-Capitalism
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2015
    Recent victories for LGBT rights have gone faster than most people imagined possible. Yet the accompanying rise of gay 'normality' has been disconcerting for activists with radical sympathies. This book shows how the successive 'same-sex formations' of the past century and a half have led both to the emergence of today's 'homonormativity' and 'homonationalism' and to ongoing queer resistance.
76. What Is a Liberal to Do?
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2008
    Seventy percent of African-American voters in California voted for Proposition 8 to ban same-sex marriage. Liberals, however, say that opposing same-sex marriage is a form of bigotry no better than the racism of those who wanted inter-racial marriage to be illegal and Jim Crow laws to remain. How, liberals wonder, can African-Americans--the victims of racism-- switch from being champions of equality to champions of bigotry? It is a true paradox. Liberals, by definition, support the victims of racism. But how can they do that when those very same victims are bigoted against gays? Oh dear! What is a liberal to do?
77. Why They Voted For Obama But Against Same-Sex Marriage
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2008
    People who think that it is wrong to make same-sex marriage legal because it would give social approval to the practice of using sperm or egg donors to conceive children who will, by design, not know their biological mother or biological father are, according to liberals, "hateful and bigoted." In the world of these liberals, placing the welfare of children before the desires of adults is "hateful and bigoted."
78. Why we must stop this gay witch-hunt now
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2014
    President Yoweri Museveni has done it. Against widespread expectation raised by his earlier pledge, the Ugandan leader turned around this week and signed into law the contentious Anti-Homosexuality Bill passed last December by a parliament his ruling party, the National Resistance Movement (NRM), controls.
79. Word is Out
    Stories of Some of Our Lives
    Resource Type: Film
    First Published: 1977
    Interviews with 26 people, who speak about their experiences as gay men and lesbians.

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