Dear Friends: I highly recommend seeing this documentary at Inside/Out on June 1st if you can. I was interviewed for it and I know many other people who were including many who were purged from
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I am getting an award! The International Day Against Homophobia & Transphobia Gala
The International Day Against Homophobia & Transphobia Gala The Canadian Centre for Gender & Sexual Diversity is proud to invite you to our 4th annual International Day Against Homophobia & Transphobia Gala on May 17, 2018
Read moreBill C-66 is flawed and needs to be amended — Gary Kinsman on CBC “Power and Politics.”
Power & PoliticsVerified account @PnPCBC Apr 19 Go to http://www.cbc.ca/player/news/TV%20Shows/Power%20%26%20Politics For the April 19, 2018 show and go into the show 1 hour and 47 minutes and a bit and Gary Kinsman will be on.
Read moreRadio show based on March 28th talk in Kingston — “The Making of the Neoliberal Queer and Reconciliation with Canadian National Security”
https://femme4fmradio.wordpress.com/2018/03/30/march-28-gary-kinsman-the-making-of-the-neoliberal-queer/ This week, we shared some recordings from a talk given on March 25 at the AKA Autonomous Social Centre titled “The Making of the Neoliberal Queer and Reconciliation with Canadian National Security”. The talk
Read moreCommunity letter against police participation within Toronto Pride with updated list of signers
April 3, 2018 Dear Olivia Nuamah, Executive Director Pride Toronto and Erin Edghill and Kevin Rambally, the Co-Chairs of Pride Toronto Board of Directors: This letter was written prior to the release yesterday of the joint
Read moreKingston talk — The making of the neoliberal queer and reconciliation with Canadian national security
The making of the neoliberal queer and reconciliation with Canadian national security: The apology from above versus the apology from below A talk by Gary Kinsman Sunday March 25, 1-3pm AKA Autonomous Social Centre, 75
Read more“Will We Be Stoned?”: Queer Activist Histories Leading to the first Sudbury Pride march in 1997.
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
Read moreGay and lesbian historians declare that lack of consultation and a rush through Parliament produce a flawed Bill C-66 (the expungement bill)..
For Immediate release – Dec. 11, 2017. Contact: Patrizia Gentile, 613-266-2048 or patrizia.gentile@carleton.ca; Tom Hooper, 647-309 7956 or thooper@yorku.ca; Gary Kinsman at 705-523-2204/647 385-4221 or gkinsman@laurentian.ca; or Steven Maynard at steven.maynard@queensu.ca. On November 28th, Prime
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 moreAIDS activism has always required Black liberation
AIDS activism has always required Black liberation
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