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Still Fighting: LGBTQ2 Rights at 50

What five new films can teach us about the past 50 years of LGBTQ2 activism
Still Fighting: LGBTQ2 Rights at 50

What five new films can teach us about the past 50 years of LGBTQ2 activism

The NFB-produced shorts explore what’s been gained and lost in our communities

By Xtra Staff
Cheri DiNovo on being one of the few women in the early LGBTQ2 movement
Still Fighting: LGBTQ2 Rights at 50

Cheri DiNovo on being one of the few women in the early LGBTQ2 movement

The minister and former politician reflects on nearly 50 years in activism and politics

By Cheri DiNovo
Having tough conversations about LGBTQ2 activism across generations
Still Fighting: LGBTQ2 Rights at 50

Having tough conversations about LGBTQ2 activism across generations

Why one BC oral history project asked youth to interview activists about the past 50 years of queer and trans reform

By Shilpa Narayan
A millennial and senior trans activist discuss the future of trans advocacy in Canada
Still Fighting: LGBTQ2 Rights at 50

A millennial and senior trans activist discuss the future of trans advocacy in Canada

Rupert Raj and Tatiana Ferguson talk community organization, early and late-life transition

By Xtra Staff
After decades of mistreatment, how can police fix their relationship with LGBTQ2 communities?
Still Fighting: LGBTQ2 Rights at 50

After decades of mistreatment, how can police fix their relationship with LGBTQ2 communities?

Tim McCaskell and Shakir Rahim talk Toronto’s bathhouse raids, the Bruce McArthur case and the marginalization of queer and trans people of colour

By Erica Lenti
This Toronto undercover police operation was reminiscent of the bathhouse raids
Still Fighting: LGBTQ2 Rights at 50

This Toronto undercover police operation was reminiscent of the bathhouse raids

Project Marie was shocking, but gay men learned how to respond — based on the past

By Marcus McCann
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Looking back at politics of the AIDS crisis with filmmaker Laurie Lynd
Still Fighting: LGBTQ2 Rights at 50

Looking back at politics of the AIDS crisis with filmmaker Laurie Lynd

His new film, ‘Killing Patient Zero,’ explores the life and death of Gaëtan Dugas

By RM Vaughan
Toronto’s bathhouse raids proved the growing need for community organizing
Still Fighting: LGBTQ2 Rights at 50

Toronto’s bathhouse raids proved the growing need for community organizing

Activist Tim McCaskell on how reaction to the raids informed the future of gay liberation

By Tim McCaskell
How the police force has divided Toronto’s LGBTQ2 communities
Still Fighting: LGBTQ2 Rights at 50

How the police force has divided Toronto’s LGBTQ2 communities

Difference in opinion on Black Lives Matter, Pride Toronto and Marie Curtis Park polarized LGBTQ2 communities on policing practices.

By Arshy Mann
How Gerald Hannon queered Canadian journalism
Still Fighting: LGBTQ2 Rights at 50

How Gerald Hannon queered Canadian journalism

On his 75th birthday, a look back on the work of a prolific writer who covered the bathhouse riots for The Body Politic and brought cruising to the pages of Toronto Life

By Alec Scott
Gerald Hannon remembers the Toronto bathhouse riots
Still Fighting: LGBTQ2 Rights at 50

Gerald Hannon remembers the Toronto bathhouse riots

A city galvanized, our communities remade

By Gerald Hannon
An insider take on LGBTQ2 politics in Canada
Still Fighting: LGBTQ2 Rights at 50

An insider take on LGBTQ2 politics in Canada

Two queer politicians — one trailblazer, one rising star — on progress, resistance and the work that still needs to be done

By Erica Lenti
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Looking back at the past 50 years of LGBTQ2 activism in Canada
Still Fighting: LGBTQ2 Rights at 50

Looking back at the past 50 years of LGBTQ2 activism in Canada

From bathhouse raids to Supreme Court cases to same-sex marriage

By Erica Lenti
Fifty years after Stonewall, how do we commemorate its radical history?
Activism

Fifty years after Stonewall, how do we commemorate its radical history?

It’s not with corporate floats and circuit parties.

By Eric Wright
Why these queer activists won’t celebrate Canada’s LGBTQ2 decriminalization story
Still Fighting: LGBTQ2 Rights at 50

Why these queer activists won’t celebrate Canada’s LGBTQ2 decriminalization story

The government’s official narrative denies our actual histories and the battles we fought for our rights

By Gary Kinsman, Karen Pearlston, Tom Hooper
We need to talk about the last 50 years of LGBTQ2 activism
Still Fighting: LGBTQ2 Rights at 50

We need to talk about the last 50 years of LGBTQ2 activism

Introducing our new series, Still Fighting

By Erica Lenti
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