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Making a Scene

Lesbians and Community Across Canada, 1964-84

Inbunden, Engelska, 2015

AvLiz Millward

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Starting in the mid-1960s, Canadian lesbians started leaving their closets en masse to find each other and build community. After decades of being pathologized or erased from public view, lesbians were ready to make a scene – both by bringing attention to themselves and by creating physical spaces and opportunities where they could meet to form relationships, debate politics, and forge their own culture.Making a Scene documents the lesbian movement that emerged in Canada between 1964 and 1984. Not just a story of big-city life, it chronicles the range of spaces lesbians created across rural and urban Canada, from physical locations, such as lesbian and gay centres, bookstores, and private members' clubs, to ephemeral sites of encounter, such as conferences, festivals, and Dykes in the Streets marches.Enriched by interviews and excerpts from letters, club meeting minutes, diaries, and more, Making a Scene brings to life the exuberance and determination of these young women.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2015-11-15
Mått152 x 229 x undefined mm
Vikt600 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieSexuality Studies
Antal sidor328
FörlagUniversity of British Columbia Press
ISBN9780774830669

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IntroductionPart 1: Creating Places1 "The Lesbian, Drinking, Is Never at Her Best": Beer Parlours, Taverns, and Bars2 "No Drugs, No Straights": Members-Only Clubs3 "Let's Decide What We Are – A Drop-In or a Café with Entertainment": BuildingsPart 2: Overcoming Geography4 "It Was an Incredible Conference": Getting Together5 "An Event That Is Talked About as Far Away as Toronto": Claiming Public Space6 "Be Daring – Live the Unbelievable and Challenging Life of a Rural Lesbian!": Outside the Big CityConclusionNotesBibliographyIndex

This well-researched study of twenty formative years of lesbian community-building in Canada covers a lot of ground … Millward has captured the flavor of an era by combining data from previous studies with eyewitness accounts and black-and-white photos from private collections. She proposes a symbiotic relationship between self-defined lesbians and their "scene" or social milieu: a lesbian identity requires a social context, and vice versa. - Jean Roberta (The Gay and Lesbian Review)