How to Organize in a Plague
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If you were an openly gay man in Toronto in 1980, chances are that you would’ve thought that life was getting better.
After all, the last decade had seen so much progress.
Homosexuality had been partially decriminalized back in the late 1960s. A few years later, Toronto had become the first city in the country to ban homophobic discrimination in municipal hiring. Pride parades and festivals were a regular occurrence. There was a thriving queer nightlife and queer press and queer arts scene.
George Hislop, an…
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