Some notes on learning from AIDS activism for our responses to the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. By Gary Kinsman While living though the current Coronavirus/COVID-19 crisis I am struck by the connections between the AIDS crisis
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Critical Reflections on Brenda Cossman’s “Memorializing LGBTQ2 Histories: Thoughts on Moving Beside Our Debates”
Some Critical Reflections on Brenda Cossman’s “Memorializing LGBTQ2 Histories: Thoughts on Moving Beside Our Debates” By Gary Kinsman Introduction I was surprised to see that Brenda Cossman’s “Memorializing LGBTQ2 Histories”[1] was included in the briefing
Read moreApril 2020 — Gary Kinsman, “Not a Gift from Above: The Mythology of Homosexual Law Reform and the Making of Neoliberal Queer Histories” in No Place for the State.
In April 2020 my chapter “Not a Gift from Above: The Mythology of Homosexual Law Reform and the Making of Neoliberal Queer Histories” will appear in: No Place for the State The Origins and Legacies
Read moreGary Kinsman — Remember This: A brief statement on Memorializing Resistance to the Canadian War on Queers
As part of the settlement of the class action suit against the federal government, for the purge campaign against LGBT+ people from the public service and military, a fund for memorialization and for establishing a
Read moreSome Critical Reflections on Watching “Sex, Sin and 69” the new film from Sandbay and EGALE.
Some Reflections on Watching “Sex, Sin and 69” By Gary Kinsman “Sex Sin and 69” produced and directed by Sarah Fodey and Sandbay Entertainment, June 2019. If you have not seen this film yet there
Read moreThe government’s official narrative denies our actual histories and the battles we fought for our rights
Why these queer activists won’t celebrate Canada’s LGBTQ2 decriminalization story The government’s official narrative denies our actual histories and the battles we fought for our rights Why these queer activists won’t celebrate Canada’s LGBTQ2 decriminalization
Read moreAnti-69: Against the Mythologies of the 1969 Criminal Code Reform — Frequently Asked Questions By Tom Hooper, Gary Kinsman, and Karen Pearlston
Anti-69 FAQ Anti-69 FAQ By Tom Hooper, Gary Kinsman, and Karen Pearlston February 14, 2019 Frequently Asked Questions When we say we are Anti-69 we are referring to the mythologies surrounding the 1969 Criminal Code
Read moreQueer Progress? Queered Marxism and the Making of the Neo-Liberal Queer Review Essays, # 2.
Queer Progress? Queered Marxism and the Making of the Neo-Liberal Queer Review Essays, # 2. Tim McCaskell, Queer Progress, From Homophobia to Homonationalism Toronto: Between the Lines, 2016. By Gary Kinsman This is the second
Read moreSome Reflections on The Fruit Machine documentary
Some Reflections on The Fruit Machine documentary By Gary Kinsman The Fruit Machine, 2018, Directed by Sarah Fodey, SandBay Entertainment/TVO. The Fruit Machine documentary has now been shown on TVO and I thought I would
Read moreEnvisioning book now available on line including my “Policing borders and sexual/gender identities: queer refugees in the years of Canadian neoliberalism and homonationalism”
Gary Kinsman, “Policing borders and sexual/gender identities: queer refugees in the years of Canadian neoliberalism and homonationalism,” Chapter 3, pp. 97-129 in Envisioning Global LGBT Human Rights(Neo)colonialism, Neoliberalism, Resistance and Hope edited by Nancy Nicol,
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