Never Going Back: A History of Queer Activism in Canada is the first comprehensive history of its kind. Drawing on over one hundred interviews with leading gay and lesbian activists across the country and a rich array of archival material, Tom Warner chronicles and analyzes the multiple - and often conflicting - objectives of a tumultuous grassroots struggle for sexual liberation, legislated equality, and fundamental social change.
Warner presents the history of lesbian and gay liberation in a Canadian context, telling in the process the story of a remarkable movement and the people who made it happen. His history encompasses efforts to attain legislated human rights for gays and lesbians, significant regional histories, autonomous lesbian organizing, and the histories of lesbians and gays of colour, two-spirited people, and those living outside the urban mainstream of lesbian and gay life. It also recalls the crises confronting the movement: the backlash against queer activism from social conservative 'family values' campaigns, state and police harassment, and the exigencies of responding to AIDS.
Moving beyond the discussions of equality-rights campaigns, Never Going Back delves inside the movement to look at dissent and debates over liberation and assimilation, sexual expression, race, the age of consent, pornography, censorship, community standards, and an identity forged from a common sexual orientation.
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- Includes bibliographical references and index
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- 305.9/0664/0971
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- 21
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Table of Contents
- CONTENTS 8
- PREFACE 10
- ABBREVIATIONS 14
- Introduction: Coming to Terms 20
- PART ONE: From Oppression to Liberation: Gays, Lesbians, and Bisexuals in Canada Prior to 1975 32
- 1 The Roots of Oppression 34
- 2 Decriminalization and Early Gay and Lesbian Organizing 59
- 3 Lesbian and Gay Liberation 78
- PART TWO: Progress amid Backlash, Dissent, and Crises, 1975–1984 114
- 4 Police Repression and Judicial Homophobia 116
- 5 Raging Debates, Elusive Consensus 136
- 6 Backlash and Social Conservative Insurgency 149
- 7 Fighting against the Odds, Facing New Crises 158
- 8 Liberating Communities, Changing Consciousness 182
- PART THREE: Between Queer and the Mainstream, 1985–1999 206
- 9 Victory in the Human Rights Campaigns 208
- 10 Legal Recognition of Same-Sex Relationships 247
- 11 AIDS Radicalization, Queer Nation, and Identity Politics 276
- 12 Queer Community Standards and Queer Spaces 295
- 13 Identity, Community, and Visibility at the End of the Millennium 334
- Conclusion: Lesbian and Gay Liberation in the Twenty-First Century 382
- NOTES 388
- ILLUSTRATION CREDITS 436
- INDEX 438
- A 438
- B 439
- C 440
- D 443
- E 444
- F 444
- G 445
- H 447
- I 448
- J 448
- K 448
- L 449
- M 451
- N 452
- O 453
- P 453
- Q 454
- R 454
- S 455
- T 457
- U 458
- V 458
- W 458
- X 459
- Y 459
- Z 459
- Illustrations 210
