The Canadian War on Queers
National Security as Sexual Regulation
by Gary Kinsman & Gentile, Patrizia
From the 1950s to the late 1990s, agents of the state spied on,interrogated, and harassed gays and lesbians in Canada, employingsocial ideologies and other practices to construct their targets asthreats to society. Based on official security documents and interviewswith gays, lesbians, civil servants, and high-ranking officials, thispath-breaking book discloses acts of state repression and forms ofresistance that raise questions about just whose national security wasbeing protected. Passionate and personalized, this account of how thestate used the ideology of national security to wage war on its ownpeople offers ways of understanding, and resisting, contemporaryconflicts such as the “war on terror.”
close this panelGary Kinsman is a professor in the SociologyDepartment at Laurentian University, Sudbury. PatriziaGentile is an assistant professor in the Pauline JewettInstitute of Women’s and Gender Studies at Carleton University.
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