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The Cold War was a time of civil right abuses and national insecurities in Canada. During the hunt for Communist internal subversive threats, hundreds of men and women working in civil service positions lost their jobs in the Anti-Homosexual Campaigns. During the 1950s and 1960s the Security Panel led by members of the RCMP "secretly" undertook the surveillance of suspected, alleged and admitted homosexuals in vulnerable sectors of the government. Homosexuality was criminalized and later medicalized by the RCMP which made homosexuals targets of Soviet blackmail threats due to the secret nature of their lifestyle. Cultural and national insecurities resulted in the push to strengthen and valorize prewar societal norms, such as heterosexuality and masculinity. The RCMP claimed moral justification for its actions. Homosexual civil servants were demoted or fired without a given reason due to denial of security clearance. The RCMP argued that homosexuals were people with "character weaknesses" unsuitable for jobs that gave them access to sensitive national information. Even today, archival research on the Anti-Homosexual Campaigns is censored through the Federal Government's use of the Access to Information Act. Discipline: History Faculty Mentor: Dr. Carolee Pollock

El rescate del pasado homosexual

This work is part of a research that started and has been developing since 2014. We have interviewed 41 lesbians in Spain. This particular section examines the difficulties homosexuals have to overcome to be part of the community, and the social commitment that has arose from these circumstances. The testimonies of the interviewee have been analyzed from the theoretical framework of feminism, combined with the documentary and bibliographical reflection on affective, sexual and gender diversity. The self-expression and the self-designation of homosexual women is very plural. Not all of them feel indebted to feminism, and among those who are militants there are also many nuances. Personal demands become political thanks to organized movements, although many of their needs often remain outside political agendas. ; Este trabajo forma parte de una investigación que venimos desarrollando desde 2014 sobre las mujeres homosexuales en España, a partir de 41 entrevistas en profundidad. En este caso, se centra en las dificultades de inclusión asociadas a la homosexualidad y el grado de compromiso social y político que de ellas se derivan. Desde el marco teórico del feminismo, se combina la reflexión documental y bibliográfica sobre la diversidad afectiva, sexual y de género con los testimonios de las entrevistadas. La manera de manifestarse como mujer homosexual es muy plural, como es diversa la autodenominación. No todas se sienten deudoras del feminismo, y entre las que sí son militantes también hay muchos matices. Las reivindicaciones personales se vuelven políticas gracias a los movimientos organizados, aunque muchas de sus necesidades permanecen con frecuencia ajenas a las agendas políticas.

Este trabajo forma parte de una investigación que venimos desarrollando desde 2014 sobre las mujeres homosexuales en España, a partir de 41 entrevistas en profundidad. En este caso, se centra en las dificultades de inclusión asociadas a la homosexualidad y el grado de compromiso social y político que de ellas se derivan. Desde el marco teórico del feminismo, se combina la reflexión documental y bibliográfica sobre la diversidad afectiva, sexual y de género con los testimonios de las entrevistadas. La manera de manifestarse como mujer homosexual es muy plural, como es diversa la autodenominación. No todas se sienten deudoras del feminismo, y entre las que sí son militantes también hay muchos matices. Las reivindicaciones personales se vuelven políticas gracias a los movimientos organizados, aunque muchas de sus necesidades permanecen con frecuencia ajenas a las agendas políticas. ; This work is part of a research that started and has been developing since 2014. We have interviewed 41 lesbians in Spain. This particular section examines the difficulties homosexuals have to overcome to be part of the community, and the social commitment that has arose from these circumstances. The testimonies of the interviewee have been analyzed from the theoretical framework of feminism, combined with the documentary and bibliographical reflection on affective, sexual and gender diversity. The self-expression and the self-designation of homosexual women is very plural. Not all of them feel indebted to feminism, and among those who are militants there are also many nuances. Personal demands become political thanks to organized movements, although many of their needs often remain outside political agendas. ; Este artículo ha sido subvencionado por el Instituto de Estudios Riojanos en la convocatoria 2017 de ayudas a la investigación.

In The End of the Homosexual? ? part memoir/part politics ? Dennis Altman connects what has happened within the changing queer world over the past forty years to larger social, political and cultural trends. This is a case study of both local and global change, yet one told from personal experience. Written engagingly, this timely new book explores the idea that major changes in the understanding of sexual and gender diversity reflect larger social and cultural shifts. For example, the internet has changed patterns of sexual behaviour as widely as did the contraceptive pill forty years ago

El debate sobre lo que, de una curiosa manera, se viene llamando «matrimonio homosexual» —dos términos que merecen ser examinados— es paradójico desde varios puntos de vista. Se presenta de manera sesgada, fruto de la actividad de un grupo de presión, en el que el lenguaje y la argumentación son instrumentalizados al servicio de una estrategia establecida de antemano. Una reivindicación sectorial, incluso minoritaria dentro de un sector de población muy restringido, podria llevar a modificar, de una manera probablemente irreversible, el sentido de una institución universal. La definición de una realidad antropológica tan fundamental como el matrimonio estaría sujeta a las vicisitudes de una mayoria politica.