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Any other way : how Toronto got queer

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    Coach House Books, 2017

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  • Contributor: Chambers, Stephanie; FitzGerald, Maureen; Jackson, Edward; Lorinc, John; McCaskell, Tim; Taylor, Tatum
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    2017
    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:
    Essays, Canadian nonfiction
    Subject(s): Gay liberation movement | Gays
    Original Publisher: Toronto, Coach House Books
    Language(s): English
    ISBN: 9781552453483, 1552453480