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Taking place throughout the month of June, Pride Month is the celebration of the LGBTQ2I communities and their histories, diversity, and freedom. In honour of Pride and our new Queer Film Classics series, we’ve compiled a reading list of books engaged with the theme of queerness in culture and the media.

Queer Film Classics, edited … Read More >

“In thinking about queer bodies and community sports spaces, there is an explicit commitment to doing sports differently.” Who’s Coming Out to Play

In light of the upcoming (and previously postponed) 2020 Summer Olympic games, this week’s blog post encourages us to reconsider our perceptions and beliefs surrounding sports, athletic spaces, and societal … Read More >

“Confession is the primary modality of the internet. It is the force that maintained its impetus through the conversion from analogue to digital, and it remains at the centre of people’s interactions within online culture.” Thomas Waugh and Brandon Arroyo, I Confess!

Whether it be social media posts, online comment boards, or even … Read More >

Making Out in the Mainstream, by Vincent Doyle, was recently reviewed by the Bay Area Reporter, the oldest and highest circulation LGBT news weekly serving San Francisco’s lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender communities. The review coincides nicely with this week’s announcement of the 27th Annual GLAAD Media awards.

The following is an excerpt from Brian Bromberger’s piece entitled “Swimming … Read More >

Quill & Quire recently reviewed our newly released book Making out in the Mainstream, GLAAD and the Politics of Respectability by Vincent Doyle.

The following is an excerpt from the review:

There are few groups so prominent in the LGBT mainstream as the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation. In this historical and ethnographic study … Read More >