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Allan Bérubé, 1946-2007: Against The Current vol. 135
Kinsman, Gary
Article
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 ...
Bad Attitude/s On Trial: Pornography, Feminism, and the Butler Decision
Cossman, Brenda; Bell, Shannon; Gotell, Lise; Rose, Becki L
Book
1997
This work, wrtten by four Canadian feminist university professors, analyzes law and pornography.
Beyond Gay Identity
Tatchell, Peter
Article
1997
Gay emancipation will destroy gay identity. This is a good thing, because gay identity sustains gay conformism.
Buddy's: Meditations on Desire
Persky, Stan
Book
1989
Call Me Kuchu
Zouhall-Worrall, Malika; Fairfax, Katherine
Film/Video
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 ...
Canadian Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual Resource Directory
Website
Listings of organizations and businesses which offer services and support for the gay, lesbian and bisexual communities of Canada. Non-profit.
The Canadian War on Queers: National Security as Sexual Regulation
Kinsman, Gary; Gentile, Patrizia
Book
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 histor...
Connexions: Volume 3, Number 5 - September 1978
Serial Publication (Periodical)
1978
Connexions: Volume 7, Number 1 - March 1982
Serial Publication (Periodical)
1982
Connexions Annual 1994: A Sourcebook of Social and Environmental Alternatives
Diemer, Ulli (ed.)
Serial Publication (Periodical)
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...
Connexions Annual Overview: Lesbians & Gays
Article
1989
Gays and lesbians have shown that while on one level -- rights, employment, etc. -- sexual orientation doesn't matter, on another level, sexual politics are profoundly important. They do matter, and n...
Connexions Annual Resource and Reading List
Article
1989
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 rig...
Connexions Library: Lesbians, Gays, Bi-sexuals Focus
Website
Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on gays, lesbians, bisexuals.
Connexions Library: Sexuality Focus
Website
2009
Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on sexuality.
Eating Fire: Family Life, on the Queer Side
Riordon, Michael
Book
2001
An inside look at a rainbow of relationships, sexual and otherwise, that gay, lesbian, and transgendered people create to animate their lives: lovers, partners, parents/kids, quick tricks, torrid affa...
The End of Gay?
Tatchell, Peter
Article
1997
Gay identity is destined for oblivion once homophobia is overturned.
Flaunting It!
Jackson, Ed; Perksy, Stan (eds.)
Book
1982
An anthology of articles spanning the first decade of the Canadian gay liberation periodical, The Body Politic.
Gay Liberation: Connexipedia Article
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.
Gay Liberation Front: Connexipedia Article
Article
The name of a number of Gay Liberation groups.
Gay Marriage Yes!: Against The Current vol. 110
The Editors
Article
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 ...
Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay Male World, 1890-1940
Chauncey, George
Book
1994
A study of the making the the gay male world in New York from 1890 to 1940.
Gay Pride is Now Respectable, and the Worse for It
Tatchell, Peter
Article
2002
The gay community has retreated from radical idealism to cautious conformism.
GaybleVision
Film/Video
1986
Globalizing the Culture Wars: Uganda's Anti-Homosexuality Bill
Rosen, David
Article
2010
Uganda, like many countries in Africa and around the world, adheres to long-standing heterosexual and patriarchal traditions as to what is acceptable sexual behavior. In the West, such traditions are ...
Homosexuality and Civilisation
Crompton, Louis
Book
2003
How Islamist gangs use internet to track, torture and kill Iraqi gays
Sarhan Afif, Burke Jason
Article
2009
Iraqi militias infiltrate internet gay chatrooms to hunt their quarry and hundreds are feared to be victims.
LGBT: a Dissection
Thorstad, David
Article
2016
"LGBT" is everywhere these days. But is it here to stay, or is it a passing fad? Where did it come from? Why was it promoted? By whom? And to what end? How did it acquire its seemingly endless variant...
LGBT Social Movements: Connexipedia Article
Article
Lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender social movements.
Liberating Sexual Desire
Tatchell, Peter
Article
1992
Everyone is potentially bisexual; the struggle for lesbian and gay equality is about the right of all people to share the joy of same-sex relationships without guilt or anxiety, and without the fear o...
Making Gay Redundant
Tatchell, Peter
Article
1996
Peter Tatchell suggests that gay identity has nothing to do with biology and everything to do with homophobia. Winning gay freedom will make gay identity redundant.
Mattachine Society: Connexipedia Article
Article
One of the earliest lasting homophile organizations in the United States, founded in 1950.
Michael Riordon in conversation with Barbara Goslawski
Riordon, Michael; Goslawski, Barbara
Article
"People are not specimens or statistics," says Michael Riordon, author of Eating Fire: Family Life on the Queer Side.
Mike Rogers: The Man Who Outs Closeted Right-Wing Politicians
Christina, Greta
Article
2009
Mike Rogers talks about why it's important to report on the secret sex lives of gay conservatives who are in bed with anti-gay forces.
Molly house: Connexipedia Article
Article
An archaic English term for a tavern or private room where homosexual and cross-dressing men could meet each other and possible sexual partners.
The New Sexual Radicalism: Socialist Feminist Questions About Queer Activism
Drucker, Peter
Article
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 projec...
The No-Nonsense Guide to Sexual Diversity
Baird, Vanesse
Book
An examination of the ways in which tolerance and hostility have manifested themselves throughout history, and in current attitudes toward sexual diversity.
Out Our Way: Gay & Lesbian Life in Rural Canada
Riordon, Michael
Book
1996
Explores the richly varied life experience of gay and lesbian Canadians living in small towns and rural areas across the country. Travelling 27,000 km and recording more than 300 conversations, the au...
Over the hill and picking up speed: An interview by Doug Wilson
Wilson, Doug
Article
1985
An interview with three older gay activists about aging and society.
Queer Progress: From Homophobia to Homonationalism
McCaskell, Tim
Book
2016
A political memoir by a leading gay rights and AIDS activist.
Queer theories and militant practices
Girard, Gabriel
Article
2009
A critical look at queer theories.
Rednecks, Queers, and Country Music
Hubbs, Nadine
Book
2014
Nadine Hubbs looks at how class and gender identity play out in one of America's most culturally and politically charged forms of popular music. Skillfully weaving historical inquiry with an examinati...
Sex Workers' Rights in Kenya: "It's Better to Be a Thief Than Gay in Kenya"
Anstis, Sienna
Article
2009
"It's better to be a thief than gay in Kenya," says a gay sex worker. Both are often punished by death, but being the latter means never revealing yourself to the public and remaining perpetually clos...
Sexual Minorities Out South Sexual minorities in the Majority World: New Internationalist October 2000
Serial Publication (Periodical)
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. Arti...
The Sexuality of Men
Metcalf, Andy; Humphries, Martin
Book
1985
Essays on aspects of male sexuality.
Stonewall riots: Connexipedia Article
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 Yo...
Toronto Pride 1981 - setting the historical record queer
Kinsman, Gary
Article
2006
The Pride event in 1981 would not have taken place without the new political and social context created by the massive resistance that took place against the bath raids that year. Thousands of queer m...

Connexions Directory of Groups & Websites

AK Press
AK Press is a worker-run collective that publishes and distributes radical books, visual and audio media, and other mind-altering material. We're small: a dozen people who work long hours for short mo...
Canadian Dimension
Canadian Dimension is published by, for and about activists in the struggle for a better world, covering women's issues, aboriginal issues, the environment, labour, etc. in ways not found in the mains...
Canadian Lesbian & Gay Archives
The Canadian Lesbian and Gay Archives aspires to be a significant resource and catalyst for those who strive for a future world where lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered people are accepted, valu...
Connexions Archive & Library
The Connexions Archive & Library is Toronto-based project dedicated to keeping alive the rich history of grassroots movements for social justice. Connexions preserves 'alternative' histories that r...
Connexions Information Sharing Services
Connexions provides information and services for advocacy groups, voluntary and non-profit organizations, and individuals, who are working for social and economic justice, environmental responsibility...
Glad Day Bookshop
Specializing lesbian and gay literature, both in and out of print.
Good As You
Good As You represents a new generation of GLBT activism. Now is the time for intelligent, progressive-minded individuals to step up and fight for the common rights of which they might be denied. We'r...
Lesbian and Gay Archivist
To acquire, preserve and provide public service for material in any medium relating to lesbians and gays, with an emphasis on Canada, but in the context of events worldwide.
ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archives
The ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archives honors the past, celebrates the present, and enriches the future of all lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people. We foster acceptance of sexual and gender...
Society for Human Sexuality
Social and educational organization whose purpose is to promote understanding and appreciation for the many forms of adult intimate relationships and consensual sexual expression.
Peter Tatchell
Articles and actions related to human rights, democracy, and global justice.

Sources Experts & Spokespersons

Sources Library

Homosexuality
Homosexuality is romantic or sexual attraction or behavior among members of the same sex/gender.
Leather Archives & Museum
The Leather Archives & Museum is a library, museum and archives pertaining to Leather, fetishism, sadomasochism, and alternative sexual practices. The geographic collection scope is worldwide and incl...
Lesbians & Gays Topic Index in Sources Directory of Experts
Spokespersons, Experts, and Resources
A subject guide to experts and spokespersons on topics related to lesbians, gays, and bi-sexuals in the Sources directory for the media.

From the Connexions Archives

Alternate Sources
Serial Publication (Periodical)
1996
A safe sex manual for SM Play. The authors, all experts in SM play, dispel the stereotypes and myths about sadomasochism with this introduction to a hitherto hidden world of human expression. Safe Edg...
Bisexual Resource Center
Website
Information, discussions, and resources for bi-sexuals.
The Body Politic
Gay Liberation Journal
Serial Publication (Periodical)
1977
Serious tabloid foucsing on political and social issues related to the gay struggle in Canada and in other countries.
The Body Politic (a magazine for Gay Liberation)
Periodical profile published 1981
Serial Publication (Periodical)
1981
The Body Politic, a magazine for gay liberation is produced ten times a year by The Body Politic Collective, a group of people who give their time and labour to the production of the magazine.
Canadian Lesbian & Gay Archives
Organization profile published 2007
Organization
A group of volunteers working in Toronto to preserve lesbian and gay history in Canada and beyond. Our primary mandate is to collect and maintain information related to gay and lesbian life in Canada ...
Coming Out (Gay Radio)
Organization profile published 1986
Organization
1986
EGALE - Equality for Gays and Lesbians Everywhere
Organization profile published 1988
Organization
1988
Gaies au Quebec
Vol.1, No.4 - Periodical profile published 1979
Serial Publication (Periodical)
1979
L'article principal de ce numero est le "manifeste et programme de l'A.D.G.Q.", qui a ete adopte le 30 septembre 1978.
Gai(e)s du Quebec
Periodical profile published 1978
Serial Publication (Periodical)
1978
Gay Alliance for Equality (G.A.E.)
Organization profile published 1981
Organization
1981
The Gay Alliance for Equality (G.A.E.) is a mixed group of women and men who are committed to the liberation struggle of lesbians and gay men, particularly in the areas of legal and social discriminat...
Gay Alliance for Equality (G.A.E.)
Organization profile published 1981
Organization
1981
See also CX2309.
Gay Community Appeal of Toronto
Organization profile published 1981
Organization
1981
Gay Liberation Against The Right Everywhere
Organization profile published 1983
Organization
1983
Gay News and Views
Serial Publication (Periodical)
1986
Gay People of UBC
Organization profile published 1981
Organization
1981
Gay Saskatchewan, November 1980
Periodical profile published 1980
Serial Publication (Periodical)
1980
An edition of the Saskatchewan Gay Coalition's newsletter devoted to the coalitions annual meeting.
Lesbian/Gay Organizations and Publications
Relating to the Issue of Discrimination in the Labour Market and the Work Place
Organization
1981
This group (SPAG) has published a brief entitled "Rights and Realities: Discrimination and the Gay Women and Men of British Columbia."
QSM - Books, Magazines and Comics
Website
Books, DVDs, magazines, and comics on SM, dominance & submission, erotic pain, and related fetishes.
Queer Anarchist Network
Organization profile published 1988
Organization
1988
Vancouver Gay Community Centre (VGCC)
Organization profile published 1981
Organization
1981
Winnipeg Gay Media Collective
Organization profile published 1986
Organization
1986