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Toronto urban history

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

1996.04.01-Premier-Mike-Harris-Elmira-ON-photo-by-Mike-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

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