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COPYRIGHT 2003 Gay & Lesbian Review, Inc.
Never Going Back: A History of Queer Activism in Canada
by Tom Warner
University of Toronto Press 430 pages, $95. ($29.95 paper)
THE FIRST gay organizations in Canada were founded in the early 1960's, well over a decade after the Mattachine Society appeared in the U.S. Vancouver's Association for Social Knowledge and Ottawa's Committee of Social Hygiene were earnest, closeted, rather cautious, and of limited effectiveness. In those days, occasional letters to the newspapers by the redoubtable James Egan provided virtually the only pro-gay material seen by the general public. Egan had urged gays to organize and, as a student at the University of Toronto, I tried to heed the call. It was easier said than done.
One of my early organizing attempts had been based at The Inn of the Unmuzzled Ox, a campus coffeehouse run by the politically liberal Student Christian Movement (SCM). The small discussion group I started never really got off the ground. In Toronto in this era, gays and lesbians remained closeted and fearful....
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