Come to the Community Forum and Supper to discuss these issues. Major changes are proposed by the City, the 519 Community Centre, and developers for Moss Park, the John Innes Centre, George Street and
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Building a Movement to Drive Back the Austerity Agenda
Unsurprisingly, even in the face of soaring food prices the provincial Liberals have committed in their 2016 budget to sustaining massively inadequate social assistance rates. According to John Clarke, long-time anti-poverty activist and organizer with
Read moreIsraeli Apartheid Week 2016, Laurentian University March 8-10.
Israeli Apartheid Week 2016 Laurentian University March 8-10. Tuesday March 8th, 7pm Room A-200 Lecture by Reuben Roth: “Checkpoints, Settlements, and the Impossibility of Work.” Film Showings: Wednesday March 9th 4pm Room A-325.
Read moreWe Need Pardons and Apologies
For Immediate Release – March 4, 2016 WE DEMAND AN APOLOGY NETWORK media statement. We support pardons for consensual homosexual sexual activities and an official government apology for those purged from the public service and
Read moreWhat does it mean to respond respectfully to local needs by walking with Indigenous sisters and brothers in the midst of the global focus on the crisis in Syria?
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
Read moreHomonationalism 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 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 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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