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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

Ontario Premier Mike Harris (Elmira, ON), Monday, 1 April 1996 [photo: ©© by Mark Bellis]

Same as it ever was? A dozen years for reflection and conclusion

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

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

Figure 5. Location of The Clarke Institute of Psychiatry’s Gender Identity Clinic, later the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) Gender Identity Clinic, on College Street at Huron. [©© Mateen Mahboubi]

Predation and the culture of institutionalization: impacts of perception and placement

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

Figure 4. Toronto Star, page A7, Monday, 27 May 1996.

Sensationalizing disempowerment: kick ’em when because they’re down

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

Figure 3. Adjacent the laneway of 61 Homewood Avenue. This was where Deanna Wilkinson was murdered by Marcello Palma shortly after midnight on 21 May 1996. [Idlewild]

Introducing “Hostile Homewood”: truly dark and stormy

On Toronto’s Victoria Day ’96 murder spree and articulating erasure

Symona and Phoebe

A Homewood conversation

“A weird approach”

Email exchange with Rosie DiManno on the Homewood murders