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Tender Resistance and the Violent Times of the AIDS Crisis
Within the archival collections of The ArQuives are ephemera and objects that document queer history, especially those primarily produced in or concerning Canada. Such queer archives preserve personal papers, photographs, periodicals, posters, and pins in order to, as scholar Ann Cvetkovich describes, “sustain a queer future by reminding us of our queer pasts” (35). Walking…
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Histories of Racialized Power Inequality in Interracial Gay Relationships
Discovering what is archived about the lives of non-indigenous queer racialized Canadians was our particular interest. Through our visit to The Arquives (previously known as the Canadian Gay and Lesbian Archives) in Toronto, we noted many ethnic or racialized queer experiences categorized by country. As a comparison, we wanted to analyze how accessible such artifacts…
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“Get StreetWise:” Community Safety and The Toronto Gay Patrol
By Hannah Barrie and Jungsim Ko The Gay Street Patrol, later renamed the Toronto Gay Patrol (TGP), originally formed in the summer of 1981 after the bathhouse raids in Toronto (Demers 32). Five members of the Legal Coordination Committee of the Right to Privacy Committee, an advocacy group created in the aftermath of the bathhouse…