Book launch Envisioning Global LGBT Human Rights: (Neo)colonialism, Neoliberalism, Resistance and Hope (2018) Thursday September 13, 2018 6:30 – 8:30PM Glad Day Bookshop, 499 Church St, Toronto On the brink of global change, Envisioning Global
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Contested Terrains: Of Terms of Reference, The Police, and Missing Persons.
There is a slightly revised version of the terms of reference for the Missing Persons Review that will be discussed at the Toronto Police Services Board Meeting on Thursday August 23, 2018. Aside from granting
Read moreSocial Theory and ‘Homosexuality’ Encylopedia Entry
Here is an entry I was asked to write on the topic of “‘Homosexuality’ and Social Theory” which covers how mainstream social theory constructs heterosexism, the problems with ‘deviance,’ the limitations of ‘homophobia,’ challenges to
Read more“AIDS Activism: Remembering Resistance Versus Socially Organized Forgetting” now out in Seeing Red.
Seeing Red: HIV/AIDS and Public Policy in Canada Edited by Suzanne Hindmarch, Michael Orsini, and Marilou Gagnon © 2018 https://utorontopress.com/ca/seeing-red-2 What does it mean to think of HIV/AIDS policy in a critical manner? Seeing Red
Read moreThe Apology from ‘Above and ‘Below.’ Expanded version
By Gary Kinsman, Dec. 5, 2017. * A shorter version of this piece was published as “How Canada’s historic apology to LGBT people falls short, ‘We are sorry’ is not enough, queer historian tells
Read moreThis year’s winner of the Dorothy E . Smith Scholar Activist Award is Dr. Gary Kinsman
Dorothy E. Smith Scholar Activist Award Winner This year’s winner of the Dorothy E. Smith Scholar Activist Award is Dr. Gary Kinsman, Professor Emeritus from Laurentian University and a long time scholar activist. Gary Kinsman
Read moreA Contribution to the History of the First Sudbury Pride March in 1997
In the lead up to the Fierté Sudbury Pride elections meeting on Nov. 21st at 7 pm at the Sudbury Theatre Centre it is important we remember our history. A Contribution to the History of
Read moreWhat Moves Us: The Lives and Times of the Radical Imagination – coming this fall.
A new collection published in fall 2017 by the Radical Imagination Project, Upping the Anti and Fernwood Publishing, edited by Alex Khasnabish and Max Haiven The Radical Imagination: What is it? How is it generated?
Read moreStudy for Struggle: The Regulation of Desire by Chris Dixon from Writing With Movements
June 15, 2017 by Chris Dixon http://writingwithmovements.com/study-for-struggle-the-regulation-of-desire/ When I introduce Gary Kinsman to people who don’t know him, I usually say that he is a leading scholar of state regulation of sexuality in the Canadian
Read morePride Has Always Been Political
http://graphichistorycollective.com/project/poster-6-pride-always-politicalPoster by Kara Sievewright Introduction by Gary Kinsman I am delighted to introduce Kara Sievewright’s wonderful poster, “Pride Has Always Been Political,” that vividly captures our movements in history. For those unfamiliar with Pride, it
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