GEO 793 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Commodification, Stonewall Riots, Transphobia
6 Dec 2016
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Geo 793 week 11: talking about the evolution of gay spaces in the city of toronto, post ww2, a lot of discrimination against gay people and homosexuality was illegal in. Canada: a lot of oppression from torontonians and from police against gay people, at the end of 1960s, two events. Goal to free homosexual people and open new places for them where they will not be discriminated. Hotel where homosexual people were renting rooms on green welch town in new york. Police raided this hotel and arrested gay people in this hotel. Canada was influenced by the riots in new york. From that moment on, homosexual acts in public were still considered illegal. Now, gay people were not so afraid in public and resulted in growing self-confidence in gay community. As a result, gay bars started to open pro-liberation of these places in.
