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  1. Bi Any Other Name
    Bisexual People Speak Out
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1991
  2. Canadian Lesbian & Gay Archives
    Organization profile published 2007

    Resource Type: Organization
    A group of volunteers working in Toronto to preserve lesbian and gay history in Canada and beyond. Our primary mandate is to collect and maintain information related to gay and lesbian life in Canada -- though we have lots from elsewhere as well. We gather material on people, organizations, issues and events.
  3. Connexions
    Volume 6, Number 1 - February 1981 - Lesbians/Gay Men/Lesbiennes/Hommes Gais
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1981
  4. Connexions Annual 1989
    A Social Change Sourcebook: Information and ideas about social and environmental alternatives
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1989
  5. Connexions Annual 1994
    A Sourcebook of Social and Environmental Alternatives
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1994
    Simultaneously a reference book and an introduction to the world of social and environmental alternatives. The bulk of the Annual is devoted to listings of grassroots groups. It also contains a series of introductory articles surveying a wide range of social and environmental issues and possibile alternatives.
  6. Flaunting It!
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1982
  7. Homophobic comments from Conservative MPs raise concerns
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Quotes from a potential Conservative cabinet.
  8. Lesbians in Canada
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1990
  9. Moral Threats and Dangerous Desires
    AIDS in the News Media
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1994
    "The mass media have played a key role in constructing public understandings of the epidemic. In the majority of instances, HIV-related disease has been presented as a condition affecting social and/or demographic minorities -- groups whose exceptional behaviour has put them at special risk. Yet at the same time, HIV and AIDS are said to threaten us all: be we heterosexual, lesbian or gay, be we young or somewhat older; be we of minority or majority ethnic status."
  10. The No-Nonsense Guide to Sexual Diversity
    Resource Type: Book
    An examination of the ways in which tolerance and hostility have manifested themselves throughout history, and in current attitudes toward sexual diversity.
  11. Sexual Minorities Out South Sexual minorities in the Majority World
    New Internationalist October 2000
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 2000
    Why and how sexual minirities are persecuted throughout the South. As well as religion, minorities are a threat to the nuclear family (the most manageable social unit) and a convenient scapegoat. Articles on Africa, India, Muslim countries and the spread of HIV.
  12. Toronto's Finest
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1981
    Too many cops seem to enjoy intimidating people and smashing things.

Experts on Gay/Lesbian Issues in the Sources Directory

  1. Paul T. Willis, B.A., LL.B., A.Mus.

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