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Amiel, Barbara.
“Firing a ‘Hooker’ Is an Employer’s Right.” Maclean’s, December 18, 1995,
p. 15.
Opinion piece regarding suspension of a Ryerson Polytechnic University
journalism teacher “who advocates sex between men and boys and works
part-time as a prostitute.” Gerald Hannon was earlier one of the principals
of Toronto’s now-defunct gay newspaper, The Body Politic.
Armstrong, Leila.
“Mainstreaming Martina: Lesbian Visibility in the ‘90s.” Canadian Woman
Studies 16(2) (Spring 1996): 10-14.
See also author’s MA thesis and appended note, immediately below.
Armstrong, Leila.
“Mainstreaming Martina: Representing Lesbians in the ‘90s.” MA thesis,
Concordia University, 1997.
(85 p.)
Addresses “the proliferation of representations of lesbians in North
American mainstream media in the early to mid-1990s. Through
a focus on…Martina Navratilova [tennis celebrity], I investigate the
discourse of progressiveness which accompanies this proliferation”—
abstract from ProQuest Digital Dissertations.
See also Armstrong entry immediately preceding.
Barker, Kate.
“We’re Here, We’re Queer, but Are the Dailies Used to It? Years Ago
They Ignored Homosexual Issues. Today They’ve Crossed the Thin Pink
Line, but How Far Have They Gone? Our Correspondent Surveys the
Mainstream Papers and Comes Up with Some Surprises.”
Ryerson Review of Journalism, Spring 1999, pp. 24-33.
Barnard, Ian.
“Queerzines and the Fragmentation of Art, Community, Identity, and Politics.”
Socialist Review 26(1-2) (Mar.-June 1996): 69-95.
“Describes US & Canadian queer guerrilla fan magazines (queerzines),
exploring their political & literary implications” –from Sociological
Abstracts.
Benson, Denise.
“Community Radio at Odds with ‘Community Standards’?” Fuse [Toronto]
17(5/6) (1994): 5-10.
CKDU’s ‘All Day, All Gay’ programming; Nova Scotia.
Billingsley, Barbara.
“Listening to the Dialogue: An Examination of the Degree of Public and
Media Attention provided to the Legislative Responses to Court Decisions
involving Equality Rights and Sexual Orientation.” In Dialogues about
Justice, pp. [27]-59. Montreal: Editions Themis, c2003.
Ref.: AMICUS catalogue record no. 29305661
Not seen by compiler. It seems likely that the record for Dialogues about
Justice is AMICUS record no. 28956497.
NOTE ALSO: item by Billingsley, carrying same title, appears as a
journal article in University of New Brunswick Law Journal 52
(January 2003): 143-178.
“A Blinkered View of the Gay World: Canada’s Homosexuals Have Substantial
Economic and Political Clout, Yet Mainstream Newspapers and Magazines Are
Still Reluctant to Let Gays Have a Regular Platform.” Globe and Mail,
December 11, 1991, p. A18.
“Body Politic,” by Terry Goldie. In Gay Histories and Cultures: An Encyclopedia,
pp. 132-133. Edited by George E. Haggerty. New York: Garland, 2000.
The Body Politic was Canada’s premier gay/lesbian journal from
1971 to 1987. Article contains photo of cover of first issue.
“The Body Politic Collective Members (1971-87),” by David Rayside. In Who’s Who in
Contemporary Gay and Lesbian History: From World War II to the Present Day, pp.
43-45. Edited by Robert Aldrich and Garry Wotherspoon. London; New York:
Routledge, 2001.
Bryson, Mary, et al.,
“Virtually Queer?: Homing Devices, Mobility and Un/belongings.”
Canadian Journal of Communication 31 (4) (2006): 791-814.
Bradley, Rosemary Jean.
“Latent Virus: Early Coverage of the AIDS Epidemic by the Canadian Press.”
MA thesis, University of Western Ontario, 1998.
(102 p.)
“Examines the news coverage of AIDS in…the Globe and Mail and the
Vancouver Sun from 1981 to the present and asks whether that coverage
was timely, informative and responsible….A lack of news coverage…
from 1981 to 1985,…[then] coverage increased” – abstract from
Canadian Research Index/UMI.
Campbell, Kathryn.
“‘Deviance, Inversion and Unnatural Love’: Lesbians in Canadian Media,
1950-1970.” Atlantis: A Women’s Studies Journal 23 (Fall 1998): 128-136.
Campbell, Kathryn.
“From Deviant to Chic: The Representation of Lesbians in Canadian Media.”
MA thesis, Carleton University, 1996.
(151 p.)
“Feminist examination of the portrayal of lesbians in mainstream
Canadian magazines and newspapers…during the period from 1950 to
1995” – abstract from Canadian Research Index.
Castleman, Lana.
“For Older, Affluent Gays.” Masthead [Mississauga, Ont.] 15(8)(Sept. 2002):
14-15.
Ref.: CBCA online index, which mentions gaiety.ca, an
apparently new magazine.
CBC News in Review: September 2003.
SEE VIDEOS section of this list.
Chakkalakal, Tessy, and Struthers, Andrew.
“Shields Up: Legal and Physical Attacks Put Gay-Bookstore Employees in
Defence Mode.” This Magazine 30(2) (Sept.-Oct. 1996): 4-5.
Churchill, David S.
“Personal Ad Politics: Race, Sexuality and Power at The Body Politic.”
Left History 8(2) (2003): 114-134.
Uses an April 1985 article from this gay/lesbian Toronto periodical
to discuss “the publication’s policies and politics regarding personal
advertisements and issues of sexual and racial identity” -- from abstract,
America: History & Life index.
Compiler note: The Body Politic ceased publication in the late 1980s.
Clarke, Juanne N.
“Homophobia Out of the Closet in the Media Portrayal of HIV/AIDS
1991, 1996 and 2001: Celebrity, Heterosexism and the Silent Victims.”
Critical Public Health 16(4) (December 2006): 317-330.
Ref.: PsycINFO index, which provides abstract and notes that the
“paper presents the results of a critical discourse analysis of the
portrayal of HIV/AIDS in the 20 highest circulating mass print media
magazines in Canada in 1991, 1996 and 2001.”
Cudmore, Douglas.
“The Little Gay Paper That Grew: Xtra! Is As Sexually and Politically Provocative
As Ever, but That Hasn’t Stopped Mainstream Advertisers from Wanting a
Piece of the Action.” Ryerson Review of Journalism, Summer 1996, pp. 62-65.
Xtra! published in Toronto.
Doyle, Vincent.
“Lead Us Not into Temptation: The London, Ontario ‘Kiddie-Porn Ring’ and
the Construction of a Moral Panic.” International Journal of Canadian
Studies, no. 21 (2000): [65]-79.
“This essay…begins by tracing the chronology of Project Guardian
from its origins as a local investigation of a so-called ‘kiddie-porn ring’ to
its eventual expansion into a ‘crackdown’ on various illegal forms of
consensual sex between men and male youths above the age of consent.
The author investigates how categories like ‘pedophile,’ ‘kiddie porn’ and
‘child victim’ are constructed, reproduced and legitimated in the media in
the service of a moral panic around questions of gay sex and knowledge,
youth and HIV infection” – abstract, p. [65].
Elash, Anita.
“The Ellen Effect: Gay and Lesbian Publishers find New Opportunities and
New Threats in a Market Gone Mainstream.” Quill & Quire 63(7) (July 1997):
37-38 (1820 words).
Reference to Dionne Brand, Ann-Marie MacDonald, Shani Mootoo, and
Yann Martel.
Elliott, Kevin.
“Inside the Plain Brown Wrapper: Publishing a Magazine for the Region’s Gay
and Lesbian Communities Involves Many Special Problems, but the People
Who Produce the Gazette Manage to Work Miracles with Very Limited
Resources.” New Maritimes [Enfield, N.S.] 11(3) (Jan./Feb. 1993):
20-21 (1336 words).
Esposito, Tony.
“Présence de l’absence: l’homosexualité dans le roman jeunesse québécois.”
Lurelu [Montréal] 18(3) (hiver 1996): 53-54.
L’auteur écrit: “Nous n’avons pu trouver que dix livres où un ou plusieurs
personnages homosexuels évidents participaient plus ou moins à
l’histoire.” Division des livres en quatres catégories: les méchants, les
clichés, les victimes, et représentations positives. Conclusion de l’auteur:
“…la littérature jeunesse québécoise a encore un gros problème quant à
la représentation de l’homosexualité.” Chacun de ces dix oeuvres est
inclus dans la section LITERATURE – oeuvres de Cadieux, Daignault,
Gervais, Lord, La Barre, Lemieux, Montpetit, Plante (deux), et Wieler.
Folb, Mikala.
“Not Just Print Anymore: Gay-Targeted Media Is Evolving beyond Newspapers
and Magazines to Encompass Broadcasting and the Internet.”
Marketing Magazine 105(29) (July 24, 2000): 14-16.
Folland, Tom.
“Ruined Representations: Reading Gay Life in the Popular Press.” Fuse [Toronto]
14(5/6) (Summer 1991): 32-35.
Freeman, Barbara M.
“From No Go to No Logo: Lesbian Lives and Rights in Chatelaine.”
Canadian Journal of Communication 31(4) (2006): 815-841.
Fulford, Robert.
“Lex Luthor Hearts Superman: Your Tax Dollars at Work,”
National Post, Oct. 13, 2007 (viewed online, October 6, 2008).
See fuller entry at Battis in EDUCATION section, which references
Battis’s response and items by Battis and Pearson in English Studies
in Canada. Battis’s response to Fulford in the National Post, Oct. 15/07,
mentioned “Battis’s work on at-risk gay and lesbian youth and the
history of LGBT teenlit” and “undertones of homophobia” in Fulford’s
article (response also viewed on line Oct. 6, 2008).
Fulford, Robert.
“Man Bites Man: It’s Their Job to Filter News through Gay Sensibilities. But
in the Process, Xtra and fab – Which Otherwise Couldn’t Be Less Alike –
Often Reduce the Community to a Set of Clichés.” Toronto Life,
September 2002, pp. 61-64.
Ref.: Xtra! and fab are Toronto glbt periodicals.
“Gay Books for Children Draw Praise.” Globe and Mail, December 8, 1992, p. C5.
“Gay Radio Station Licence Sought.” Marketing Magazine 104(33) (Sept. 6, 1999): 4.
(90-word news note)
Company: CKMW Radio Ltd., to use 93.5FM in Toronto. Result not
known.
“"Gerald Hannon v. The Dinosaurs.” Globe & Mail [Toronto], April 17, 2004, p. R3
(710 Words).
Ref: CPI.Q index.
Concerns continuing reference to Gerald Hannon, many years after
his publication of several articles about gay youth and consent issues.
Hannon is quoted: “It’s funny how this thing never dies. It settles down
for a while, and then it surfaces again,” as a “tissue of truths, half-truths
and outright lies.” Hannon is a Toronto journalist.
Graham, Candis.
“Confessions of a Whip-Cracking Dominatrix.” Canadian Woman Studies 16
(Spring 1996): 6-9.
Treatment of lesbians in journalism by heterosexual men.
Griffin, Kevin.
“Stepping Outside the Closet.” Bulletin (Canadian Association of Journalists)
[Ottawa] 52 (May/June 1993): 29.
Gay and lesbian reporters; Murray McMillan.
Hamilton Hart, Jennifer A.
“Sexuality and Popular Culture: Conflict and Queer-ies surrounding Lesbian
‘Representation’.” M.A. thesis, Acadia University, 2007.
(97 leaves)
Ref.: AMICUS catalogue record no. 33904022 (microfiche format),
which carries descriptors Lesbians in mass media and Homosexuality on
television.
Higgins, Ross.
“Murder Will Out: Gay Identity and Media Discourse in Montreal.”
In Beyond the Lavender Lexicon: Authenticity, Imagination, and
Appropriation in Lesbian and Gay Languages, pp. 107-132. Edited by William L.
Leap. New York: Gordon and Breach, 1995.
Ref: Archives gaies du Québec online bibliography.
Hogan, Bernie.
“Coming Out of the Bias Closet: Clarity and Community in Alternative Media
Discourse.” B.A. honors dissertation, Memorial University of Newfoundland,
2001.
(84 leaves)
Ref.: AMICUS catalogue record no. 25527328.
“A Homosexual Boycott Hits Alberta Report.” Western Report 8(29)
(August 16, 1993): 30 (888 words).
Alberta Report, also titled Western Report, and British Columbia Report,
also cited as BC Report, all seem to be much the same magazine, and are
virulently anti-gay. Articles frequently appear in essentially the same
form in more than one title. The article cited here is one of the few
examples from these magazines that has been included in this
bibliography. The interested researcher may extract many other items
from these publications from Canadian Periodical Index (CPI.Q) or
CBCA, where they seem to be given thorough coverage.
Hoy, Claire.
“Canadian Broadcast Standards Council Makes an Extraordinarily Chicken-
Hearted Ruling.” Hill Times 538 (May 22, 2000): 6 (862 words).
Radio broadcasting; portrayal of gays.
Johnston, Dawn Elizabeth Belle.
“Television outside the Box: The Case of PrideVision TV.” Ph.D. dissertation,
University of Calgary, 2005.
(259 p.; ISBN 97804940386810)
“...Canada’s PrideVision TV has become the world’s first gay, lesbian,
bisexual and transgender television station to broadcast around the clock,
365 days a year….[It is] a big-budget, corporately sponsored premium
cable channel….[This dissertation] explores the ways in which Canadian
queer activists are re-imagining social activism by using niche-market
television” [by means of a] “case study of Toronto-based PrideVision
TV” – from abstract, ProQuest Dissertations & Theses,
ProQuest document ID 813768371; Publication no. AAT NQ94388
Kinsman, Gary.
“The Mount Cashel Orphanage Inquiry: The Inscription of Child Abuse.”
In Constructing Danger: The Mis/representation of Crime in the News,
pp. 76-93. [Edited by?] Chris McCormick. Halifax, N.S.: Fernwood,
1995.
Ref.: Kinsman, Regulation of Desire, 2nd ed., p. 368, ftnt. 35,
which gives that this is a “talk by Gary Kinsman.”
Korinek, Valerie J.
“‘Don’t Let Your Girlfriends Ruin Your Marriage’: Lesbian Imagery in
Chatelaine Magazine, 1950-1969.” Journal of Canadian Studies 33(3)
(1998): 83-109.
Lemay, Nicolle.
“Representations of Gay and Lesbian Life in Fiction for Teens.”
Teacher-Librarian Today 6(1) (2000): 10-16.
Journal of the Alberta Teachers’ Association.
MacPhee, Marie-Claire, and Hogan, Mél.
“The Role of Montréal’s Dykes on Mykes Radio Show.” Canadian Woman
Studies 25 (3/4) (Summer 2006): 193-197.
Makin, Kirk, and Alphonso, Caroline.
“Gay-Book Sellers Win Supreme Court Case.” Globe and Mail [Metro ed.],
December 16, 2000, pp. A1, A9.
About Little Sister’s Book & Art Emporium, Vancouver, and its case
against Canada Customs for seizures of books and videos. For some
additional citations, see CENSORSHIP section of this bibliography.
Martineau, Normand, 1952-
“L’image des homosexuels dans les médias: analyse et évaluation de la
représentation d’une marginalité.” Thèse de maîtrise, Université du Québec
à Montréal, 1985.
(274 p.)
McLean, Melva.
“Pushing Pulp Back to Academia: A Case Study of a Trade Publisher Seeking
Academic Course Adoptions.” M. Pub. thesis, Simon Fraser University, 2002.
(69 leaves)
Ref.: AMICUS catalogue no. 27661127, in which descriptor
Arsenal Pulp Press (Firm) is assigned.
McLeod, Donald W.
“Publishing against the Grain.” In History of the Book in Canada, Volume 3:
1918-1980, pp. 322-327. Edited by Carole Gerson and Jacques Michon. Toronto:
University of Toronto Press, 2007.
Ref.: MLA International Bibliography.
Migneault, Benoit.
“L’amour qui n’ose dire son nom dans les périodiques québécois des XIXe et XXe
siècles.” À rayons ouverts, 14e année, no. 55, juillet-sept. 2001, p. 4-5.
Montgomery, Charles.
“Xtra!-Sexed: Is Boinking like Bunnies the Most Important Thing about Being
Gay? One Paper’s View Has the Community in an Uproar.” Vancouver Magazine
3 3(9) (November 2000): 22-28.
Concerns Vancouver gay paper, Xtra! West.
Newhook, Tyrone.
“Coming Out in the Newsroom: Why So Many Gay Journalists Aren’t in the
Closet Anymore and What It Means to the Way They Do Their Jobs.”
Ryerson Review of Journalism, Spring 1994, pp. 44-50.
The OUT!SPOKEN Styleguide: A Guide for the Media on Lesbian, Bisexual, Gay and
HIV/AIDS Issues. Toronto, 1995.
Ref.: Kinsman, Regulation of Desire, 2nd ed., p. 368, ftnt. 29.
Not seen.
Pearson, Wendy.
“Interrogating the Epistemology of the Bedroom: Same-sex Marraige and
Sexual Citizenship in Canada.” Discourse: Journal for Theoretical Studies
in Media and Culture 26(3) (October 2004): 136-165.
Ref.: MLA International Bibliography.
Peters, Wendy Kathleen.
“Our Televisions, Our Selves: Popular (In)visibility, Marginalized Identities
and the Politics of ‘Queer as Folk’.” Ph.D. dissertation, University of Toronto,
2006.
(302 p.; ISBN 9780494220351)
“The U.S. cable television show ‘Queer As Folk’…aired in Canada from
2000 to 2005 depicting a White, middle-class community of gays and
lesbians….This dissertation explores the political economy of ‘gay TV’ in
the early 2000s, offers a critical and qualitative textual analysis of QAF,
and details viewers’ readings of the series….” – from abstract, ProQuest
Dissertations & Theses, ProQuest document ID 1268616291; Publication
no. AAT NR22035.
“Police Raid Gay Bookstore.” Globe and Mail, May 1, 1992, p. D1.
Glad Day, Toronto.
“QueerPress! New Lesbian & Gay Book Publisher Opens in Toronto.” Fuse [Toronto] 14(4)
(Spring 1991): 9.
Rayter, Scott, 1970-
Queer CanLit: Canadian Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT)
Literature in English: An Exhibition. Curated by Scott Rayter, Donald W.
McLeod and Maureen FitzGerald. Toronto: Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library,
2008.
(62 p.; ISBN 9780772760654)
Catalogue to accompany an exhibition held at the Thomas Fisher Rare
Book Library, University of Toronto, June 9-August 29, 2008.
Ref.: AMICUS catalogue no. 33881582.
Robertson, Mark L.
“AIDS Coverage in The Body Politic, 1981-1987: An Annotated Bibliography.”
American Review of Canadian Studies 32(3) (2002): 415-431.
Bibliography of about 150 articles, according to indexing source,
America: History & Life.
Ross, Becki.
“Having the Last Laugh [claiming that lesbian experience is either dismissed,
distorted or erased by producers of commercial mass media is an
understatement].” Fuse [Toronto] 13(5) (June/July 1990): 26-29.
Ross, B.
“Tracking Lesbian Speech: The Social Organization of Lesbian Periodical
Publishing in English Canada, 1973-1988.” In Women’s Writing and
the Literary Institution: Proceedings of a Conference, pp. 173-187.
Edited by Claudine Potvin and Janice Williamson. Edmonton, Alta.:
Research Institute for Comparative Literature, University of Alberta, 1992.
Conference organized by the Research Institute; November 1989.
Rothbauer, Paulette M., and McKechnie, Lynne E. F.
“The Treatment of Gay and Lesbian Fiction for Young Adults in Selected
Prominent Reviewing Media.” Collection Building 19(1) (2000): 5-16.
Sacuta, Norm.
“Edmonton Media Missed the Mark on Festival: Wilful Ignorance of Coverage
Only Served to Widen the Gap in Alberta between Gays and Straights.”
NeWest Review 24(1) (Oct./Nov. 1998): 7-8.
Regarding First Annual Canadian Gay & Lesbian Choruses Festival.
Spence, Alex.
Moving the Mountain: Historical Patterns in Gay Book Publishing and Academic
Thesis Production: A Canadian Model. Toronto: iirg, c2005.
(48 leaves; ISBN 0968458823)
Looks quantitatively at the publication of gay books and academic theses
in Canada. Provides analyses by publisher and decade for books and by
academic institution and decade for theses. Some brief notes on who are
the most prolific authors of some literary genres. NOTE that the analysis
was based on listings in Canadian gay bibliographies, including the
compiler’s Gay Canada bibliography in the edition which was available at
the time of that analysis.
Stojsic, Leslie.
“The Queen of Queer TV.” Herizons 14(1) (Summer 2000): 24-26 (1855 words).
About Irshad Manji and “Queer Television” (“QT”) in southern Ontario.
Stone, Kyle.
“Double Trouble.” Toronto Life, January 1998, pp. 61-64+ (2438 words).
Enriched title: “In a city as big as Toronto, there must be someone who
shares your name. But why is it a woman who writes explicit porn for
gay men?”
Caro Soles writes under pen name Kyle Stone.
Stone, Sharon Dale.
“Lesbians, Gays and the Press: Covering Lesbian and Gay Pride Day in
Kelowna [British Columbia], 1996.” Studies in Political Economy 64
(Spring 2001): 59-81.
“…discusses how the 1996 Gay Pride Day in Kelowna gained favorable
press coverage” –from Sociological Abstracts summary.
Sussel, Robyn D.
“News of an Epidemic: Exploring the Discourse of ‘Deviance’ in the Construction
of AIDS.” MA thesis, Concordia University, 1992.
(148 p.)
The thesis found that ‘specifically, gay men were underrepresented in the
discourse [of two Canadian newspapers] despite evidence that four out
of five AIDS cases in Canada affected this population.” Reasons are
offered – abstract from Canadian Research Index.
Totzke, Michael
“Time Gentlemen Please.” Ryerson Review of Journalism, Spring 1987,
pp. 43, 48.
“Major article on the demise of The Body Politic” – CLGA site
Tulchinsky, Karen X.
“The Glamorous Life: An Interview with Arsenal Pulp Press Publisher
Brian Lam.” Lambda Book Report [United States] 7 (Sept. 1998): 6-7.
Arsenal Pulp Press is a Vancouver house.
Veitch, Joanie.
“Xtra! Xtra! Read All about the Newspaper That Works for Toronto’s Gay
Community.” Ryerson Review of Journalism, Spring 1993, pp. 10-11.
“The Vriend Decision: Why Media Coverage of the Supreme Court Decision Made
It Politically Easy for Alberta to Do Nothing.” Fraser Forum, May 1998,
pp. Insert 1-4.
Waugh, Thomas.
“Harder and Harder: Archeology and Censorship.” MIX: The Magazine of
Artist-Run Culture [Toronto] 22(3) (Winter 1996/97): 35-39.
On the difficulties of publishing a book on the history of gay erotica.
Young, Ian, 1945-
Out in Paperback: A Visual History of Gay Pulps. Toronto: LMB Editions, 2007.
(ISBN 9780978176518)
Ref.: AMICUS prepublication catalogue record no. 33442113
(as of October 21, 2008).
Probably broader than scope of this bibliography, and possibly out of
scope, but included because of prominence of this Canadian author,
particularly in early Canadian gay publication endeavours (e.g., Catalyst
Press, in the 1970s). Descriptors applied to record include Book covers –
United States, Pulp literature, American, and also, more generally,
Homosexuality in art and Homosexuality in literature.
Zernentsch, Sheri.
“Gay Families in the Media in the Age of HIV and AIDS.” MA thesis, Concordia
University, 1998.
(104 p.)
“Investigates print media discourse on gay families in the context of
HIV/AIDS and the gay rights movement.” Compares and contrasts
reports from the mainstream heterosexual press, the mainstream gay
press, and the gay community press…” – abstract from ProQuest
Digital Dissertations.