Resource List: Readings on Homophobia in Canadian Culture: Books

Gay and Lesbian Studies

Canadian Studies

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Adam, Barry. The Rise of a Gay and Lesbian Movement (2nd revised ed.). New York: Twayne Publishers, 1995.

Bouthillette, Anne-Marie. “Queer and Gendered Housing: A Tale of Two Neighbourhoods in Vancouver.” In Queers in Space: Communities/ Public Space /Sites of Resistance, edited by Gordon Brent Ingram, Anne-Marie Bouthillette, and Yolanda Retter, 213-232. Seattle: Bay Press, 1997.

Crichlow, Wesley. Buller Men and Batty Bwoys: Hidden Men in Toronto and Halifax Gay Communities. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2003.

Grube, John. “No More Shit: The Struggle for Democratic Gay Space in Toronto.” In Queers in Space: Communities/ Public Space /Sites of Resistance, edited by Gordon Brent Ingram, Anne-Marie Bouthillette, and Yolanda Retter, 127-145. Seattle: Bay Press, 1997.

Hurley, Mary. Sexual Orientation and Legal Rights.Ottawa: Library of Parliament, May 31, 2007 (revised.) Available at: http://www.parl.gc.ca/information/library/PRBpubs/921-e.pdf.

Janoff, Douglas. Pink Blood: Homophobic Violence in Canada. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2005. Information available at www.pinkblood.ca.

Kinsman, Gary. “Constructing Gay Men and Lesbians as National Security Risks, 1950-70.” In Whose National Security? Canadian State Surveillance and the Creation of Enemies, edited by Gary Kinsman, Dieter Buse, and Mercees Steedman, 142-153. Between the Lines: Toronto, 2000.

Kinsman, Gary. The Regulation of Desire: Homo and Hetero Sexualities. (2nd revised ed.). Montreal: Black Rose Books, 1996.

Namaste, Viviane. Invisible Lives: The Erasure of Transsexual and Transgendered People. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000.

Namaste, Viviane. Sex Change, Social Change: Reflections on Identity, Institutions and Imperialism. Toronto: Women’s Press, 2005.

Noble, Jean Bobby. Sons of the Movement: FTMs Risking Incoherence on a Post-Queer Cultural Landscape. Toronto: Women’s Press, 2006.

Pierceson, Jason. Courts, Liberalism, and Rights: Gay Law and Politics in the United States and Canada. Philadelphia, Temple University Press, 2005.

Rayside, David. On the Fringe: Gays and Lesbians in Politics. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1998.

Rayside, David. “The Structuring of Sexual Minority Activist Opportunities in the Political Mainstream: Britain, Canada, and the United States.” Sexual Identities, Queer Politics, edited by Mark Blasius, 23-55. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2001.

Rayside, David. Queer Inclusions, Continental Divisions: Public Recognition of Sexual Diversity in Canada and the United States. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2008.

Ross, Becki. The House That Jill Built: A Lesbian Nation in Formation. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1995.

Smith, Miriam. Lesbian and Gay Rights in Canada: Social Movements and Equality-Seeking, 1971-1995. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1999.

Smith, Miriam. Political Institutions and Lesbian and Gay Rights in the United States and Canada. New York: Routledge, 2008.

Stychin, Carl. “Queer Nations.” A Nation By Rights: National Cultures, Sexual Identity Politics and the Discourse of Rights, 89-114. Philadelphia: Temple University Press.

Warner, Tom. Never Going Back: A History of Queer Activism in Canada. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2002.