Gary Kinsman
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Born | Gary William Kinsman 1955 (age 68–69) |
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Discipline | Sociology |
School or tradition | Queer liberation |
Institutions | Laurentian University |
Main interests | LGBT issues |
Gary William Kinsman (born 1955) is a Canadian sociologist. Born in Toronto, he is one of Canada's leading academics on lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender issues.[4] In 1987, he wrote one of the key Canadian texts on LGBT social history, Regulation of Desire, reprinted in 1995. In 2000, he edited and co-authored a second work, on Canadian federal government surveillance of marginal and dissident political and social groups, Whose National Security? In 2010, Kinsman's newest book, The Canadian War on Queers: National Security as Sexual Regulation, co-written with Patrizia Gentile, was published by University of British Columbia Press and released on 1 March.[5]
A professor of sociology at Laurentian University in Sudbury, Ontario,[6] Kinsman's research and publication focuses primarily on the sociological perspectives of LGBT issues. Kinsman is also a social activist on feminist, trade union, social justice, and anti-poverty issues.
Kinsman was a writer for The Body Politic and a central figure in the publication of the successor magazine Rites. He helped found Gays and Lesbians Against the Right Everywhere and the Lesbian and Gay Pride Day Committee of Toronto.
In Sudbury, he was one of the organizers of the city's first-ever Sudbury Pride event in 1997.[7]
In 2015, Kinsman was active in a campaign lobbying for a formal apology from the Government of Canada for the purges of LGBT people from the federal civil service in the 1950s and 1960s.[8]
Works
- The Regulation of Desire: Homo and Hetero Sexualities : Montreal, New York: Black Rose: (1987, 1995): ISBN 0-920057-81-0, ISBN 1-55164-040-6
- Whose National Security? Canadian State Surveillance and the Creation of Enemies Toronto: Between the Lines (2000): ISBN 1-896357-25-3
- The Canadian War on Queers: National Security as Sexual Regulation Vancouver: UBC Press:(2010): ISBN 978-0-7748-1628-1
References
- ^ Jackson, Kyle (2015). Homohegemony and the Other: Canada and Jamaica (PhD thesis). Kingston, Ontario: Queen's University. p. 12. hdl:1974/12691.
- ^ Kinsman, Gary (2009). "The Politics of Revolution: Learning from Autonomist Marxism". Upping the Anti (1). Retrieved 14 December 2019.
- ^ Brock, Deborah. "'Workers of the World Caress': An Interview with Gary Kinsman on Gay and Lesbian Organizing in the 1970's Toronto Left". Left History. Retrieved 14 December 2019.
- ^ "Gary Kinsman's book Canadian War on Queers takes on gay issues in government" Archived 15 June 2013 at archive.today. The Georgia Straight, 17 March 2010.
- ^ University of British Columbia Press - The Canadian War on Queers: National Security as Sexual Regulation. Retrieved 6 May 2010.
- ^ "Gary Kinsman – Mark S. Bonham Centre for Sexual Diversity Studies". sds.utoronto.ca. Retrieved 24 September 2019.
- ^ gary (4 November 2017). "A Contribution to the History of the First Sudbury Pride March in 1997". Radical Noise. Retrieved 24 September 2019.
- ^ "Group demands apology for Canadian government’s gay ‘purges’" Archived 29 July 2015 at the Wayback Machine. Metro, 1 June 2015.
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