University of British Columbia Press
The Canadian War on Queers
National Security as Sexual Regulation
Distributed for University of British Columbia Press
The Canadian War on Queers
National Security as Sexual Regulation
Table of Contents
Preface: National Security Wars Then and Now
1 Queering National Security, the Cold War, and Canadian History
2 Queer History and Sociology from Below: Resisting National Security as an Ideological Practice
3 The Cold War against Queers: Social and Historical Contexts
4 The Social Relations of National Security: Spying and Interrogation
5 The “Fruit Machine”: Attempting to Detect Queers
6 Queer Resistance and the Security Response
7 The Campaign Continues in the 1970s: Security Risks and Lesbian Purges in the Military
8 “Gay Political Activists” and “Radical Lesbians”: Organizing against the National Security State
9 From Exclusion to Assimilation
10 Resisting the Expanding National Security State: From the Canadian War on Queers to the War on “Terror”
Appendix
Notes
Bibliography
Index