A substantial contribution to our understanding of the politics of same-gender sexual relations.
AcknowledgementsIntroductions11The Creation of Homosexuality as a "Social Problem"232The Historical Emergence of Homosexualities and Heterosexualities: Social Relations, Sexual Rule and Sexual Resistance483Sexualities in Canadian History - Problems of Sources and Interpretation834Sexual Colonization of the Indigenous Peoples925Buggery and Sodomy in New France, Upper Canada, and the West986"These Things May Lead to the Tragedy of Our Species": The Emergence of Homosexuality, Lesbianism, and Heterosexuality in Canada1077World War II, Coming Out and Constructing Homosexuality as a National, Social, and Sexual Danger1488The Struggle for Law Reform2139Gay/Lesbian Liberation and Communities28810Danger Signals: Moral Conservativism, the Straight Media, the Sex Police, and AIDS33011From Resistance to Liberation375Index410