14 сент 1971 г. - The Body Politic established (1971)

Описание:

"In August 1971, UTHA founder Jearld Moldenhauer announced at a meeting of TGA that he wanted toestablish a Canadian newspaper that would reflect the consciousness of the growing gay community and communicate across the country the activities and events that were taking place in the gay liberation movement in Canada (McLeod 1996, p. 78). The following month, a few people attended the first planning meeting at Moldenhauer’s apartment and decided on the title The Body Politic (Jackson & Persky, 1982). The magazine would become 'Canada’s gay liberation newsmagazine of record' from 1971 to 1987 (Barriault 2009, p. 99). As Jackman (2013) describes in his history of the newspaper, the entire endeavour would be done with a collective model of governance. The first contributors were young men—only a handful of women ever participated in the collective—and most of these contributors identified with white Left social movements, second-wave feminisms, and liberation movements unfolding in other parts of the globe... for many years, the [Canadian Lesbian & Gay] Archives was organizationally and legally intertwined with the publication of The Body Politic; even today, the CLGA continues to receive financial support from former collective members."

—Sheffield