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About Canada: Queer Rights

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Is Canada a “queer utopia”? Canada was the fourth country in the world – and the first in the Western Hemisphere – to legalize same-sex marriage. Queer people in Canada enjoy many of the same legal...
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  • 01 March 2012
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Is Canada a “queer utopia”? Canada was the fourth country in the world – and the first in the Western Hemisphere – to legalize same-sex marriage. Queer people in Canada enjoy many of the same legal rights as heterosexuals, and social acceptance of homosexuality has grown exponentially. But are these the goals that queer activists hoped to achieve? Is this legal regulation and normalization of homosexuality what the lesbian and gay liberation movement of the early 1970s fought for? Using the origins of this movement as a starting point, About Canada: Queer Rights examines the history of the struggle for queer rights in Canada to create a better understanding of the present. What Peter Knegt finds is that Canada’s queer people are as diverse and multicultural as Canada itself – they are not easily generalized and have most certainly not achieved equality.
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Price: $20.00
Pages: 144
Publisher: Fernwood Publishing
Imprint: Fernwood Publishing
Series: About Canada
Publication Date: 01 March 2012
Trim Size: 7.00 X 5.00 in
ISBN: 9781552664377
Format: Paperback
BISACs: SOCIAL SCIENCE / LGBTQ+ Studies / General
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Peter Knegt is the associate editor of "indieWIRE" and holds a position on the advisory board
of the University of Toronto's Center for Sexual Diversity Studies. He has contributed to "Exclaim
"magazine, "IN Toronto "magazine, "Playback," the "Undergraduate Journal of Sexual Diversity
Studies," "Variety," and "Xtra!" He lives in Montreal, Quebec.

: What Does Our Progress Mean?
: Regional Organizing
: Legal Reform
: Institutional Homophobia
: Children, Youth and Education
: Health
: Difference and Privilege
: Conclusion
: Bibliography
: List of Supplementary Materials