![The Fantastic Five. Toronto Pride, Church Street, 29 June 2009 (midnight) [Idlewild].](https://accozzaglia.ca/wp-content/uploads/2009.06.29-The-Fantastic-Five-pride-2009-1200x600.jpg)
![Figure 12. Squeegee kid, Monday, 20 May 1996 (Victoria Day) [City of Toronto Archives, item 17, file 93, series 1907 (Ivaan Kotulsky fonds)].](https://accozzaglia.ca/wp-content/uploads/1996.05.20a-squeegee-kid-Queen-at-Bathurst-s1907_fl0093_it0017-Ivaan-Kotulsky-fonds-664x410.jpg)
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]](https://accozzaglia.ca/wp-content/uploads/1995.08.28-Bar-501-Andrew-Stawicki-Toronto-Star-664x410.png)
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].](https://accozzaglia.ca/wp-content/uploads/1992-At-The-Steps-Andrew-Stawicki-Toronto-Star-opt-664x410.png)
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)].](https://accozzaglia.ca/wp-content/uploads/1971.03.31-Maitland-east-of-Yonge-Harvey-Naylor-f1526_fl0061_it0069-opt-664x410.jpg)
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].](https://accozzaglia.ca/wp-content/uploads/Figure-1.-1994.12.07-Steps-screen-cap-from-Pride-trim-664x410.jpg)
An introduction: “Meet me at The Steps”
Commanding normativities in Toronto’s gaybourhood, 1984–2005
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