Never Going Back : : A History of Queer Activism in Canada / / Tom Warner.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook Package Backlist 2000-2013
• VerfasserIn: Warner, Tom,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2020]; ©2002
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (480 p.)

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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Abbreviations -- INTRODUCTION. Coming to Terms -- 1. The Roots of Oppression -- 2. Decriminalization and Early Gay and Lesbian Organizing -- 3. Lesbian and Gay Liberation -- 4. Police Repression and Judicial Homophobia -- 5. Raging Debates, Elusive Consensus -- 6. Backlash and Social Conservative Insurgency -- 7. Fighting against the Odds, Facing New Crises -- 8. Liberating Communities, Changing Consciousness -- 9. Victory in the Human Rights Campaigns -- 10. Legal Recognition of Same-Sex Relationships -- 11. AIDS Radicalization, Queer Nation, and Identity Politics -- 12. Queer Community Standards and Queer Spaces -- 13. Identity, Community, and Visibility at the End of the Millennium -- Conclusion: Lesbian and Gay Liberation in the Twenty-First Century -- Notes -- Illustration Credits -- Index