The Canadian War on Queers
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Gary Kinsman
About this book
From the 1950s to the late 1990s, agents of the state spied on, interrogated, and harassed gays and lesbians in Canada, employing social ideologies and other practices to construct their targets as threats to society and enemies of the state.
In this path-breaking book, Gary Kinsman and Patrizia Gentile use official security documents and interviews with gays, lesbians, civil servants, and high-ranking officials to disclose not only the acts of state repression that accompanied the Canadian war on queers but also forms of resistance that raised questions about just whose national security was being protected and about national security as an ideological practice. This passionate, personalized account of how the state used the ideology of national security to wage war on its own people offers ways of understanding, and resisting, contemporary conflicts such as the so-called “war on terror.”
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Front Matter
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Contents
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Illustrations
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Preface
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Acknowledgments
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Queering National Security, the Cold War, and Canadian History
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Queer History and Sociology from Below
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The Cold War against Queers
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Spying and Interrogation
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The Fruit Machine
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Queer Resistance and the Security Response
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The Campaign Continues in the 1970s
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“Gay Political Activists” and “Radical Lesbians”
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Sexual Policing and National Security
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Continuing Exclusion
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From Exclusion to Assimilation
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From the Canadian War on Queers to the War on Terror
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Appendix
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Notes
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Bibliography
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Index
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