Never Going Back: A History of Queer Activism in Canada - Couverture souple

Warner, Tom

 
9780802084606: Never Going Back: A History of Queer Activism in Canada
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0802084605 ISBN 13 : 9780802084606
Editeur : University of Toronto Press, 2002

Synopsis

Never Going Back: A History of Queer Activism in Canada is the first comprehensive history of its kind. Drawing on over one hundred interviews with leading gay and lesbian activists across the country and a rich array of archival material, Tom Warner chronicles and analyzes the multiple - and often conflicting - objectives of a tumultuous grassroots struggle for sexual liberation, legislated equality, and fundamental social change.

Warner presents the history of lesbian and gay liberation in a Canadian context, telling in the process the story of a remarkable movement and the people who made it happen. His history encompasses efforts to attain legislated human rights for gays and lesbians, significant regional histories, autonomous lesbian organizing, and the histories of lesbians and gays of colour, two-spirited people, and those living outside the urban mainstream of lesbian and gay life. It also recalls the crises confronting the movement: the backlash against queer activism from social conservative 'family values' campaigns, state and police harassment, and the exigencies of responding to AIDS.

Moving beyond the discussions of equality-rights campaigns, Never Going Back delves inside the movement to look at dissent and debates over liberation and assimilation, sexual expression, race, the age of consent, pornography, censorship, community standards, and an identity forged from a common sexual orientation.

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À propos de l'auteur

Tom Warner is one of Canada's leading gay activists. During his thirty years of activism, he helped found the Coalition for Lesbian and Gay Rights in Ontario and several other organizations.

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Éditeur
University of Toronto Press
Date d'édition
2002
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0802084605
ISBN 13 
9780802084606
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
480
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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9780802036087: Never Going Back: A History of Queer Activism in Canada

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ISBN 10 :  0802036082 ISBN 13 :  9780802036087
Editeur : University of Toronto Press, 2002
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