Any other way : how Toronto got queer

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Chambers, Stephanie
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FitzGerald, Maureen
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Jackson, Edward
,
Lorinc, John
,
McCaskell, Tim
,
Taylor, Tatum

Summary:
This is an anthology of essays about queer culture and individuals in Toronto.
Contents:
- Foreword / Kristyn Wong-Tam
- 'A New Way of Lovin'': Queer Toronto Gets Schooled by Jackie Shane / Steven Maynard
- Arriving
- A Whole Other Story / Faith Nolan Agokwe, Art Zoccole
- Take Me Away to Another World / Rebecka Sheffield
- I Was Miss General Idea / Derek McCormack
- Uptown/Downtown: Diary of a Hong Kong Dyke in Nineties Toronto / Karen B.K. Chan
- How Jackie Shane Helped 'Satisfy My Soul' / Elaine Gaber-Katz
- Hanna and Saied's Story / Kamal Al-Solaylee
- Spaces
- Kiss and Tell (2013): Church Street Mural Project / Natalie Wood
- Town Squares and Spiritual Hearts / Shawn Micallef
- I Was in Charge of Kitty Litter / Jane Farrow
- Wood-Wellesley and the 'Mystery Block' / Mark Osbaldeston
- Wilde and Urban Wilderness: Defining Public Space in Allan Gardens / Tatum Taylor
- Steps to Gentrification / Allison Burgess
- Downtown Friends: Photographs by Pamela Gawn, Jane Farrow
- The Evolving Demographics of Toronto's Gay Village / Michael Ornstein and Tim McCaskell
- Queer and Cripple in the 6ix / Andrew Gurza
- In the Spirit of Beth: Queering Spiritual Space / Nicole Tanguay
- Cardio-Highs: Winning and Running Away All at Once / Rahim Thawer
- This Space Is Taken / Stephanie Nolen
- The World's Largest Lesbian Hockey League / Margaret Webb
- Origins
- Sex, Scandal, and Punishment in Early Toronto / Ed Jackson and Jarett Henderson
- Alexander Wood: The Invention of a Legend / Ed Jackson
- Six Nights in the Albert Lane, 1917 / Steven Maynard
- Oscar Wilde's Type (in Toronto) / C.S. Clark
- Demimonde
- A Place Like The Continental / Elise Chenier
- Halloween Balls: From Letros to the St. Charles / Christine Sismondo
- Notes on the Gay Bar / Robert Popham
- Tabloid Journalism and the Rise of a Gay Press in Toronto / Donald W. McLeod
- Headline Homophobia Tops Tabloid Treatments! / Christine Sismondo
- Is Your Daughter Safe? Reactionary Reflections on the Suicide of a Pansy / Excerpted from Hush Piss in a Bag / Gerald Hannon
- Queenie and Ted / Kate Zieman
- Dyke Fight at the Blue Jay / Cathi Bond
- See: Sex Perverts / Stephanie Chambers
- And the Stars Look Very Different Today / Jennifer Coffey
- Sara Ellen Dunlop and the Music Room: A Memory / John Forbes
- Emergence
- Hanlan's Point / Ed Jackson
- The Brunswick Four: An Oral History / Pat Murphy
- Closing the Spy Holes at the Parkside Tavern / Gerald Hannon
- Jim Egan, Gay Warrior / Donald W. McLeod
- The Homosexual Next Door (1964) / Sidney Katz
- A Bastion of Straight Male Privilege: OCA in the 1970s / Richard Fung
- Get Mad
- Play Rock 'n' Roll / Susan G. Cole
- I Want Her So Much I Feel Sick: An interview with Rough Trade's Carole Pope / Jane Farrow and John Lorinc
- Resisting, Sharing, Organizing
- Worlds in Collision / Rupert Raj
- A Literary Breakthrough: Glad Day's Origins / Jearld Moldenhauer
- George Hislop: The Unofficial Gay Mayor / Gerald Hannon
- Co-operative Living Happens in the Kitchen! / Dennis Findlay
- The Fallout of a Murder / Ed Jackson
- The Raid on The Body Politic / Ed Jackson
- That Collective House on Dewson Street / Debbie Douglas
- From St. Helens Avenue to Dewson Street / Makeda Silvera
- Out of the Cold the Thousands Came / Philip McLeod
- An Unsurpassed Rabble-Rouser: Chris Bearchell / Gillian Rodgerson 'Friend of the Court': Legal Resistance at Old City Hall / Tom Hooper
- An Experiment in Alternative Living: Washington Avenue / Diana Meredith
- Speaking Up for the Gay Community, 1979 / John Sewell
- Turning the Page / Kyle Rae
- Toronto City Council Motions: Three Tentative Steps
- Toward Recognition
- Seized by the Cause: Glad Day and the Canada Customs Battle / Elle Flanders
- Theatre as Settlement: Buddies in Bad Times / Sky Gilbert
- Black Friday ... With and Without the Question Mark / Alec Butler
- Disengagement Is No Longer an Option: David Rayside, Rebecka Sheffield
- No-Cop Zone? Reflections on the Pussy Palace Raid / Chanelle Gallant
- Marvellous Grounds: QTBIPOC Counter-Archiving against Imperfect Erasures / Jin Haritaworn, Ghaida Moussa, and Syrus Marcus Ware, with Alvis Choi, Amandeep Kaur Panag, and Rio Rodriguez
- The Invisible Visibles and CelebrAsian / Vince Ha and Mezart Daulet
- Mississauga Meet-up: Queer Organizing in the 905 / Anu Radha Verma
- Epidemic
- Life with Dad and 'the Aunties' / Stefan Lynch
- 'Avoir le cul entre deux chaises' / Yvette Perreault
- AIDS ACTION NOW! and the Aerosolized Pentamidine Trial / Tim McCaskell
- Cry / Michael Lynch
- Scenes
- Our People: Janis Cole and Holly Dale in the 1970s / Jon Davies
- KillJoy's Kastle: Allyson Mitchell's Vision / Jane Farrow
- Vazaleen's Tawny Le Sabre / Alexander McClelland
- Ball Culture / Kurt Mungal, photos by Alejandro Santiago
- Yellow Boots on Queer West / John Greyson
- Desh Pardesh: A Cultural Festival with Attitude / Sharon Fernandez
- Red Spot Nights / Michèle Pearson
- Clarke Lengua Latina: Queer Palabras en Toronto / janet romero-leiva and Karleen Pendleton Jiménez
- Hidden Cameras and Their Gay Church Folk / Sarah Liss
- Sex
- Route of Heroes / Keith Cole
- Guess What ... That Hand on Your Shoulder Could Be a Cop's / The Body Politic
- Desire Lines / Jake Tobin
- Garrett Under a Queer Blue Sky / Sly Sarkisova
- Chalking It Up to Experience / Andrew Zealley
- Towel Service / Monica Noy
- The First Rule of Pussy Palace / Fiona MacCool
- International Ms Leather 2000 Comes to Toronto / Hilary Cellini Cook and Karleen Pendleton Jiménez
- Geographies of Gay Sex in the Digital Age / Mathew Gagné
- Rights and Rites
- It Seemed Like a Gay Wedding To Me / Bob Gallagher
- 'Why Do You Go There?': Struggle, Faith, and Love at the Metropolitan Community Church of Toronto / David K. Seitz
- From Banns to DOMA / John Lorinc
- City of Love at the Castle on the Hill / Maureen FitzGerald and Mariana Valverde
- LGBTQ2S Parenting: Some Milestones / Rachel Epstein
- 'We Are Your Children Too!': How Toronto's Children's Aid Society Learned to Support Queer Youth / John McCullagh
- Building the Unity Mosque / El-Farouk Khaki
- Pride
- Pride: A Political History / Tim McCaskell
- Toronto's Unrecognized First Dyke March / Amy Gottlieb
- The Only Time Gay Asians Led the Pride Parade / Alan Li
- The Encounter of a Brown, Trini, Carib, Callaloo Dyke with Police at Pride 1999 / leZlie Lee Kam
- Blackness Yes! Blockorama: Making Black Queer Diasporic Space in Toronto Pride / R. Cassandra Lord in conversation with Jamea Zuberi
- Pride Is Hot and Red and Political / Rachel Epstein
- Conclusion
- Did Toronto Get Queer? / Tatum Taylor and Rahim Thawer.
Genre: Canadian nonfiction, Essays
Original Publisher: Toronto , Coach House Books
Language(s): English
ISBN:
9781552453483
,
1552453480

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Chambers, Stephanie

FitzGerald, Maureen

Jackson, Edward

Lorinc, John

McCaskell, Tim

Taylor, Tatum

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This is an anthology of essays about queer culture and individuals in Toronto.

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Canadian nonfiction

Essays

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Toronto

Coach House Books

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