The construction of male homosexuals as intelligent was connected to broader cultural anxieties about same-sex attracted men in Cold War-era Canada.
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Patient Zero and the Making of the AIDS Epidemic
How did a single gay man become blamed for causing the North American AIDS epidemic?
Canada’s First Gay Student Activist Group
The University of Toronto might have sacked Jearld Moldenhauer for being out, proud, and vocal, but they were fighting a losing battle.
Prairie Fairies: A History of Queer Communities and People in Western Canada, 1930-1985
The history of queer people in the five major western Canadian cities, Winnipeg, Saskatoon, Regina, Edmonton and Calgary.
Telling Abortion Stories
When it comes examining the history of women’s access to abortion, stories matter.
The Legal Invention of Lesbian Sexuality in Canada
The Divorce Act of 1968 led Canadian judges to create a legal category to describe sex between women.
Touch, Manhood, and the Boundaries of Same-Sex Intimacy in Nineteenth-Century Canada
The 1838 Markland Inquiry historicizes male anxiety about same-sex intimacy and touch in nineteenth-century Canada.
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