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Toronto is home to multiple and thriving queer communities that reflect the intense diversity of the city itself, and Any Other Way is an eclectic history of how these groups have transformed Toronto since the 1960s. From pioneering activists to show-stopping parades, Any Other Way looks at how queer communities have gone from existing in the shadows to shaping our streets.
A longtime equity activist shares his experiences in the struggle to reshape Toronto's education system in delivering anti-racist, anti-sexist, and anti-homophobic education
This book begins by putting gay & lesbian sexuality and politics in historical context and demonstrates how and why queer theory emerged.
In Homophobia in the Hallways, Tonya D. Callaghan interrogates institutionalized homophobia and transphobia in the publicly-funded Catholic school systems of Ontario and Alberta.
Recent cases of teen suicide linked with homophobic bullying have thrust the issue of school safety into the national spotlight. In “Don’t Be So Gay!” Queers, Bullying, and Making Schools Safe, Donn Short considers the effectiveness of safe-school legislation. Drawing on interviews with queer youth and their allies in the Toronto area, Short concludes that current legislation is more responsive than proactive. Moreover, cultural influences and peer pressure may be more powerful than legislation in shaping the school environment. Exploring how students’ own experiences, ideas, and definitions of safety might be translated into policy reform, this book offers a fresh perspective on a hotly debated issue.
The first book to examine the works of controversial film and video-maker, queer activist, and agent provocateur, John Greyson.
Returning seven years later to their original pieces from this landmark book, over 20 leading scholars and activists revisit and reframe their rich contributions to a burgeoning scholarship on Whiteness. With new reflective writings for each chapter, and valuable sections on relevant readings and resources, this volume refreshes and enhances the first text to pay critical and sustained attention to Whiteness in education, with implications far beyond national borders. Contributors include George Sefa Dei, Tracey Lindberg, Carl James, Cynthia Levine-Rasky, and the late Patrick Solomon. Courageously examining diverse perspectives, contexts, and institutional practices, contributors to this vol...
AIDS galvanized the politics of the gay community. The groups Michael Lynch helped organize and his prescient articles in The Body Politic sent messages of resistance and hope across North America. In telling his story and illuminating the issues, Ann Silversides draws on Lynch's diaries, letters, and poems; interviews with family, friends, and colleagues; film and newspaper records; and the papers of other leading AIDS activists. Book jacket.
LGBTQ Politics in Nicaragua provides the previously untold history of the LGBTQ community's emergence as political actors--from revolutionary guerillas to civil rights activists.