Against Cleanliness

[commonpeople1]

The history of the gay movement in Canada is similar to the American one: raids by the police against gay establishments increasingly brought people together to fight back and demand their rights.  Here's a video of a young Margaret Atwood in 1981 speaking to a largely gay audience (I think).  She's got great sense of timing and humour, doesn't she?

Here's an article on the 1981 bathhouse raids and protests in Toronto.  Includes a full length documentary, embedded from YouTube, that has loads of footage of Canada in the early 80s.

Via Fagburn

Comments

[notagordianknot.livejournal.com]

Hi there, found you through twirlingtulip and added you, if you don't mind. Enjoy Margaret Atwood but had never seen/heard her.

[commonpeople.livejournal.com]

Hi there! No, I don't mind! Will add you back. :-)