With Gary Kinsman
The title comes from concerns expressed by some in the community that people would throw stones at us at the first Sudbury Pride march. This presentation focuses on Sudbury queer activism in the 1990s including the Campaign Against Employment Discrimination formed to support Mary Ross who experienced discrimination at Loeb on Brady; the young queer people thrown out of the Backstreet club; the involvement of lesbians and gay men in the resistance to the right-wing Harris government; and especially the organizing for the first Sudbury Pride march in 1997.
Gary Kinsman is a queer liberation, AIDS, anti-poverty and anti-capitalist activist living on Indigenous land. In the 1990s he was involved in the Campaign Against Employment Discrimination and was one of the founders of the Pride March in Sudbury. He is currently involved in the AIDS Activist History Project and the We Demand an Apology Network. He is the author of The Regulation of Desire, co-author of The Canadian War on Queers and co-editor of We Still Demand! and Sociology for Changing the World. He is Professor Emeritus in Sociology, Laurentian University and his website is: http://radicalnoise.ca/
9am, Friday March 9th, Room C-202 (the Classroom Building) on the Laurentian University campus, Sudbury.
- Part of Pride Week at Laurentian University.