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The Fantastic Five. Toronto Pride, Church Street, 29 June 2009 (midnight) [Idlewild].

A gaybourhood dénouement and conclusion

“Meet me at The Steps”: commanding normativities in Toronto’s gaybourhood, 1984–2005

Figure 12. Squeegee kid, Monday, 20 May 1996 (Victoria Day) [City of Toronto Archives, item 17, file 93, series 1907 (Ivaan Kotulsky fonds)].

A new morality: the citizenship of consumption

“Meet me at The Steps”: commanding normativities in Toronto’s gaybourhood, 1984–2005

Figure 11. A gaybourhood site of sanctioned labour production for trans people at Bar 501, 1995. [Andrew Stawicki, Toronto Star]

The architecture of normative spacing and queer liminalities

“Meet me at The Steps”: commanding normativities in Toronto’s gaybourhood, 1984–2005

Figure 10. “People tend to sit where there are places to sit” — William H. Whyte on the social life of small urban spaces. A daytime view of The Steps during the early 1990s [Andrew Stawicki, Toronto Star].

Small stoop, giant armature

“Meet me at The Steps”: commanding normativities in Toronto’s gaybourhood, 1984–2005

Figure 3. View of Village Green apartment tower complex behind razed lot and older housing stock, facing east on Maitland Street, between Church and Yonge Streets, Wednesday, 31 March 1971. [City of Toronto Archives: item 69, file 61, fonds 1526 (Harvey R. Naylor Fonds)].

From Molly Wood’s Bush to the gaybourhood: a historical narrative

“Meet me at The Steps”: commanding normativities in Toronto’s gaybourhood, 1984–2005

Steps: gay pride parade” [Kids in the Hall (season 5, episode 5), aired 7 December 1994. New York: Broadway Video].

An introduction: “Meet me at The Steps”

Commanding normativities in Toronto’s gaybourhood, 1984–2005

Umlauts were not a Texan strong point. Power Tools Live promotion item, circa 1990. White thermography printed on grey acrylic substrate. This was high-budget flashiness back then. [Source: A business card-sized admission pass from PTL.]

“The deejay after midnight”

Making sense of Houston’s symbiotic cultural space, dance music culture, and psychogeographic memory, 1986–1992

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What are words for?

The Jenny Holzer exhibits: “Monument” and “For Chicago”

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“It’s better than Vegas.”

Bernie Gurberg's Dollar Cinéma at Décarie Square: an urban media site analysis

The transparent trouble of arguing heteronormativity in spacing*

From a seminar discussion on Berlant and Warner in Will Straw’s “COMS675: Media & Urban Life”, fall 2010