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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

Figure 6. Wolseley Street, dusk, about four blocks north of where Brenda was murdered, is representative of the area’s historical built form. Defensible spacing (the line between public and private space) is clear, but the street, with no sitting activity or pedestrians, or has low proprietor surveillance. [Idlewild, 12 July 2008]

An act of not-so-safe streets: regulating femininity away from public space

Hostile Homewood: on Toronto’s Victoria Day ’96 murder spree and articulating erasure

Appendix E

Blacktop to green grounds

Citizen engagement and the un-paving, permeabilizing, and cultivating of routine public spaces

At Yonge and Dundas, December 2007 [Idlewild]

This space is whose place?

The divestiture of community public spacing in a globalized terrain