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Article: Never Going Back: a History of Queer Activism in Canada.
- Article from:
- Journal of the History of Sexuality
- Article date:
- April 1, 2003
- Author:
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By TOM WARNER. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2002. Pp. xv + 430. $95.00 (cloth); $29.95 (paper).
This is an important book. Despite the occasional slips into excess, Never Going Back provides a fair-minded, comprehensive, and often moving account of an important and difficult topic. If you want to begin to understand lesbian and gay activism both in and, more importantly, outside of Toronto, in Canada's other regions, in Quebec, in its small towns, and on its reserves, this book should be on your shelves.
The introduction signals the essential optimism of the volume, claiming for lesbian and gay liberation "a revolutionary new consciousness" ...