HIST 210 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Lord Elgin Hotel, John Sparrow David Thompson, Gay Bar

• School: Queen's University
• Department: History
• Course: HIST 210
• Professor: Steven J Maynard

Document Summary

Subcultures, part ii: state formation/sexual formation: cold war sexuality. The police: morality squads : capitalism and sexual identity. In parks, lanes, and lavatories: urbanization and sexual identity. Highighted the role of print-culture in the maing of particular sexual identity; the lesbian identity. **importance of the late 19th cwntury on the making of sexuality in canada*: state formation/sexual formation: cold war sexuality. The state had blanked out parts of the document: book: the canadian war on queers: gary kinsman and patrizia, long book, topics: Notion that homosexual had inner character weakness. Same-sex activity had been regarded as a sin, then a crime. In the post-war time it was seen as a mental-illness. Always changing the conceptualization of same-sex relations. At its peak of cultural power/ influence in cold0war period. In 1951 that"s when it first emerges om canada. Getting ww2; that"s when psychiatirts were used to weed out homosexuals in the army.