This year’s Laurent Larouche Lecture at the University of Sudbury will explore deeper questions of how and why we respond to crises – acute and chronic, local and global. What does it mean to respond
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Homonationalism and Transnational Sexual Politics
The Sex Salon Speaker Series, University College, The University of Toronto Mark S. Bonham Centre for Sexual Diversity Studies SEX SALON presents Homonationalism and Transnational Sexual Politics Chair: Evan Vipond Homonationalism, the Neo-Liberal Queer
Read moreNo Pride in Gentrification
Tuesday, 22 September 2015 Proposed LGBT-focused Sport and Recreation Centre The 519 Community Centre, in partnership with private donors and with the support of the City of Toronto, is pushing to turn Moss Park and
Read moreBook Launch for Disrupting Queer Inclusion: Canadian Homonationalisms and the Politics of Belonging.
Friday, October 16 8pm At Buddies In Bad Times Theatre 12 Alexander Street, Toronto, Ontario M4Y 1B4 Glad Day Bookshop presents the Book Launch for OmiSoore H. Dryden and Suzanne Lenon’s edited collection, Disrupting Queer
Read moreWe Demand an Apology for the Canadian War on Queers
LGBTIQ public servants demand apology for the Canadian war on queers By Ella Bedard, June 24, 2015 Photo: Martine Roy and Darl Wood (with cane) pose at the Persons’ Case Monument on Parliament Hill. Both
Read moreGary Kinsman — AIDS Activist History Project Interview
An interview Alexis Shotwell did with me on my involvement in the Toronto group AIDS Action Now! in the late 1980s and early 1990s is available on the AIDS Activist History Project site at:
Read moreThe AIDS Activist History Project posts ‘first wave’ of interviews on AIDS Activism in Vancouver, Toronto, and Nova Scotia!
June 20, 2015 — For Immediate Release Contacts: Gary Kinsman: gkinsman@laurentian.ca: 647-477-2065 Alexis Shotwell: Alexis.Shotwell@Carleton.ca: 613-882-7727 Less than thirty years ago, ordinary people living with HIV/AIDS, alongside allies, took action to resist stigma, change harmful
Read moreWE DEMAND AN APOLOGY FOR THE PURGE CAMPAIGNS AGAINST LESBIANS AND GAY MEN
Media Package from the WE DEMAND AN APOLOGY NETWORK Contents: The WE DEMAND AN APOLOGY NETWORK Statement Support Statements from those directly affected by the national security purge campaigns. Brenda Barnes Christine Frank Letourneau Paul-Emile
Read moreFighting Bill C-51 Requires Rejecting National Security
By Gary Kinsman This posting is not intended to provide detailed analysis of Bill C-51 but instead is my reflections on the organizing against it. Bill C-51 will intensify important aspects of the national security
Read moreFrom the Archives — Different Rainbows, ‘Third World’ ‘Queer’ Liberation
— By Gary Kinsman I recently came across this book review I wrote in 2002 for Against the Current. While there are aspects I would change if I were writing it today it engages with
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