Interview with Gary Kinsman
gay men
lesbians
sociology
gay liberation
HIV/AIDS
politics
An extended interview between Tom Warner and Gary Kinsman, an academic and activist who discusses gay political activism in the 1970s and 1980s in Toronto and the maritimes.
Part 1 covers coming out and his early life, and getting involved with gay and leftist politics in the 1970s. He discusses the necessity of revolution for gay, lesbian, and women's politics, and addresses the opportunities and challenges around activism and press coverage of Anita Bryant.
Part 2 covers Pride's political potential, the Right to Privacy Committee and the Bathhouse Raids, AIDS social service work and activism, Bill 7, and the Charter of Rights and Freedoms Kinsman also discusses gay and lesbian studies and the homophobia at U of T.
Part 3 discusses activism in Newfoundland around pride celebration and sexual orientation protections, pornography and moral panic in the media, and washroom raids.
Tom Warner
Strategy for the Gay Movement
politics
homophobia
gay men
lesbians
gay liberation
A 1978 conversation between Stuart Russell, Reiner Marvitz, Gerhard Hoffman, Mariana Valverde, Brian Mossop, Ben Popert, David Thorstad, and Bob Kunst about the state of the gay movement and its history and future.
Topics include how to engage with the mainstream, liberation versus assimilation, desexualizing the movement, class and economic issues, civil rights goals, and gay teachers.
1978-09-28
Cassette Tape
English
2014-015/014T
2014-015/015T
The Body Politic on Trial with Michael Lynch
gay liberation
press
police raids
censorship
homophobia
pedophilia
Michael Lynch reflects on the 1979 police raid of the <em>Body Politic </em>offices and the subsequent trial after it published the story "Men Loving Boys Loving Men." The response to the trial touched on police brutality, obscenity laws, gay liberation, freedom of the press, and Anita Bryant's visit to Toronto. Narrated by Frank Harrad.
Gender Review, no. 4 (Mar 1979)
Androgyny
Gender diversity--History
Transgender people--Legal status, laws, etc.
Transgender people--Psychology
<strong>Special issue:</strong> Androgyny <br /><br /><strong>Articles include:</strong> <br />
<ul>
<li>"Introduction" by Leo Wollman to <em>Behold, I Am Woman</em> by Diana (existence of gender variant behaviour through history) </li>
<li>"Statue of an hermaphrodite" (photo and text, from <em>The Transexual Phenomenon</em> by Harry Benjamin) </li>
<li>"Ontario sex change bill now law" (<em>Act to Amend the Vital Statistics Act</em>) </li>
<li>"Androgyny" by Nicholas C. Ghosh </li>
<li>"Androgyny--why? Lifestyle--why not?" by Jay Thurston </li>
<li>"Female cross-dressers" by Germaine Hahn (profiles of Deborah Sampson, soldier in the American Revolution, and Mary Walker, soldier in the American Civil War)</li>
<li>"Flirted with ladies was a woman in disguise" by Webb Garrison (profile of Dr. James Barry (1790s-1865), military surgeon assigned female at birth)</li>
<li>"Transsexuals embrace stricter sex morality" by Richard Newcombe</li>
<li>"[John] Money vs. [Anita] Bryant" (Money criticizes Bryant's campaign against homosexuality)</li>
</ul>
<strong>Profiles</strong> <br />
<ul>
<li>Mario Martino (transman, psychologist) </li>
<li>Angela Lynn Douglas (transwoman)</li>
<li>Janus Information Facility (successor to the Erickson Education Foundation, service of the Gender Clinic of the University of Texas Medical Branch)</li>
<li>R. Marvin Bala (endocrinologist)</li>
<li>Dale C. Birdsell (plastic surgeon)</li>
</ul>
Also includes: resources, poetry, news, events, personals, letters, FACT business, advertisements
Raj, Rupert
FACT (Foundation for the Advancement of Canadian Transsexuals)
Mar 1979
Garrison, Webb
Ghosh, Nicholas C.
Hahn, Germaine
Newcombe, Richard
Thurston, Jay
Rupert Raj; CLGA has licensing authority
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English
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