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LGBTQ History Month

October 1, 2025

October is celebrated as LGBT/Queer History Month in some places. I have picked out just a few posts from the hundred+ in my LGBTiTQQ2S and Family & Identities categories to highlight. Today in Canadian Queer [read more]

Poetry

In Pursuit of a Dream Revised

July 11, 2025

In Pursuit of a Dream, my small chapbook of poetry from the 1980s is out of print. Most of the contents of that book, along with 8 pages of selections written this century, are now [read more]

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Bathhouse Raids

February 5, 2024

On This Day Originally shared some years ago February 5, 1981, 11 p.m. Squads of undercover (under towel?) ‘peace officers’ raid four gay bathhouses in downtown Toronto. Over 300 people were charged with crimes ranging [read more]

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Today in Canadian Queer History

February 5, 2023

Reposted, because whatever progress we (some of us, at least) have made is far from secure. In 2016 I marked the 35th anniversary of Operation Soap – the 1981 Toronto bathhouse raids that became our [read more]

Politics And More

Trickle Down Economics

October 2, 2019

Trickle Down Economic Theory There’s a problem with that neo-con favourite ‘Trickle Down’ Economic Theory. Far too much experience has proven that the pain it causes (and there is always pain) never trickles up the [read more]

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Pride Posts

June 2, 2019

June is celebrated as Pride Month in many places. I have picked out just a few posts from the hundred+ in my LGBTiTQQ2S category to highlight. Today in Canadian Queer History looks at “Operation Soap” [read more]