Trans Cinema: Making Communities, Identities, and Worlds

By Laura Horak NOTCHES on the Bookshelf

An exciting introduction to cinema by the trans creators who are innovating filmmaking to imagine a more inclusive world.

Men of Superior IQ: Connecting Homosexuality to Intelligence in Cold War-Era Canada

By Andrea Ens Canada, LGBTQ

The construction of male homosexuals as intelligent was connected to broader cultural anxieties about same-sex attracted men in Cold War-era Canada.

Patient Zero and the Making of the AIDS Epidemic

By Richard McKay Canada, HIV/AIDS, LGBTQ, Medicine and the Body, NOTCHES on the Bookshelf

How did a single gay man become blamed for causing the North American AIDS epidemic?

Canada’s First Gay Student Activist Group

By Elspeth Brown Canada, LGBTQ

The University of Toronto might have sacked Jearld Moldenhauer for being out, proud, and vocal, but they were fighting a losing battle.

Dance! Dance! Dance!: Youth Culture and Courtship at Queen’s University, 1910-1930

By Renata Colwell Canada

What can a conflict over dancing at Queen’s University tell us about sexual mores in early-twentieth-century Ontario?

‘After Stonewall’ and Gay and Lesbian Liberation in Western Canada

By Valerie Korinek Canada, LGBTQ

‘After Stonewall’ was one of the most vocal regional gay periodicals in Canada to challenge a national gay activist platform.

Sex Between the Solitudes: Interracial Sex and Adoption in Montreal’s Postwar Jewish Community

By Andrea Eidinger Canada, Race and Ethnicity, Religion and Sexuality

The ways a father’s race shaped the adoptability of children born to Jewish mothers reveals the complex construction of Jewishness in postwar Canada.