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Despite the prominence of what is now called trans in contemporary culture, there is a shortage of comprehensive trans histories.
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Coming out at work was challenging enough but it was often overlooked in the early gay liberation movement.
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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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