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Article: Tom Warner. Never Going Back: a History of Queer Activism in Canada.(Book Review)
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- American Review of Canadian Studies
- Article date:
- June 22, 2003
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Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2002. xv + 430 pp. $95.00 cloth, $29.95 paper.
After reviewing a few books in a row that I did not like, I resolved to accept to do another one only if I thought I was going to enjoy reading the book. On this count and many others, Tom Warner's Never Going Back: A History of Queer Activism in Canada did not disappoint.
The book is divided into three broad sections, organized by time period. The first section, though it reaches from antiquity to 1974, concentrates on post-World War II Canada. It discusses lesbian and gay oppression, the rise of lesbian and gay consciousness, the formation of an embryonic movement and ...