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BEWARE JUMPING GAY WALRUS
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GAY WALS
It’s been pecially hard for gay bars, which have acted as safe spac for the queer muny for s.
Gay and lbian upl had been gettg married, but the heart of Toronto’s Gay Village, where hedonism was supposed to le, there wasn’t much buzz. Pk Triangle Prs had been Canada’s most vol champn of the gay liberatnist agenda, a parallel movement to the equaly-and-rights LGBTQ activism. Gay liberatn had emerged out of a broar 1960s sexual radilism, proposg that mastream culture placed unreasonable and artificial limatns on sexualy, particularly homosexualy.
Jt as femism lls for women to shg off the patriarchy and take ntrol of their own fat, gay liberatn lled for gay men and lbians to follow their sexual sir whout shame. Straight people might have affairs and kky sex, but gay promiscuy uld build a new queer natn.
HOW GAY RIGHTS KILLED GAY LIBERATN
Same-sex marriage is the law of the land, and ernments across Canada have elimated or are movg to elimate almost all legal discrimatn agast gay and lbian people, and more recently, trans people. Gay liberatn had promised a sexual utopia, an Oz where nventnal social judgements did not apply.
It was only by takg sex off the table did gay and lbian people make any real soc-polil headway this untry. Beg a gay Canadian livg through the late twentieth and early twenty-first century was to experience one’s very existence vdited.
GAY WALS?
Yet Canada’s origal gay liberatn movement has now been phed asi as a historic footnote to the equaly-foced LGBTQ activism that ate up and sp out. Events this year celebratg the forty-fifth anniversary of The Body Polic, the fluential gay liberatnist magaze published by Pk Triangle Prs prr to Xtra!, felt more like an exercise nostalgia than the affirmatn of a relevant social force.