For once, Queerious is going to be silent, and I think you should be as well!

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Book description:

From the 1950s to the late 1990s, agents of the state spied on, interrogated, and harassed gays and lesbians in Canada, employing social ideologies and other practices to construct their target – people who deviated from the so-called norm – as threats to society and enemies of the state.

Reconstructed from official security regime documents released through the Access to Information Act and interviews with gays, lesbians, civil servants, and high-ranking officials, The Canadian War on Queers offers a passionate, personalised account of a national security campaign that violated peoples civil rights and freedoms in an attempt to regulate their sexual practices. Gary Kinsman and Patrizia Gentile disclose not only the acts of state repression that accompanied the Canadian war on queers but also forms of resistance that raise questions about just whose security was being protected and about national security as an ideological practice.

This path-breaking account of how the state used national security to wage war on its own people offers ways of understanding, and resisting, contemporary ideological conflicts such as the “war on terror.” It is required reading for students, scholars, and social activists in lesbian, gay, and queer studies or anyone interested in the issues of national security, state repression, and human rights.

Professor Kinsman’s lecture will focus on the research undertaken for the book and will address the the contexts and issues it examines. There will be books available for sale at the event, and copies have also been ordered for sale at the Laurier Bookstore.

The talk, including Q and A is on Thursday, March 25th
Book signing 5:00 – 5:30; lecture and discussion 5:30 – 7:00 p.m., BA201 on the Laurier Campus!

Come out and attend this groundbreaking event!

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We are looking for gay men to share their thoughts about the “rules” for dating, relationships and sexuality in a 1.5 to 2 hour focus group discussion. Focus groups of approximately eight gay men will be held on the University of Waterloo campus. Pizza and pop will be served. All participants will be entered into a draw for $100 Visa Gift!

For more information, and to participate in a focus group, email Dr. Robin Milhausen at rmilhaus@uoguelph.ca or call 824-4120 ext. 54397.

The information gathered from the focus groups shall be used in an Undergraduate University of Guelph Honour’s project. This project was reviewed, and received ethics clearance through the Research Ethics Board at the University of Guelph and the Office of Research Ethics at the University of Waterloo.

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Come out and support the Rainbow Centre’s Second campaign week: Trans* Awareness Week!

I will be gender bending all week, I hope you will be too!

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You’re invited to a showcase of photographs examining the subject of TRUTH – Teens Resisting Urban Trans/Homophobia. This community-based research project is a joint effort of Wilfrid Laurier University’s Centre for Community Research, Learning and Action and K-W Counselling Services’ OK2BME program.

Youth (aged 16 – 24) were asked to take photographs documenting their experiences of being LGBTQ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and/or queer) in Waterloo Region.

This exhibit showcases the issues they experience, and the concerns and needs they have through their photographs.

When: Monday, November 9, 2009 5:00 – 7:30pm

Where: The Button Factory, 25 Regina St. South, Uptown Waterloo

**Free, vegan-friendly refreshments will be provided

RSVP to katiemcook@gmail.com

Come out and visit this really cool oppertunity!

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Come out all week starting October 5th through until the 9th to partake in some AWESOME Queer Awareness events! Queer Music, Queer History, Queer Terms Matching Game and even a SPECIAL GUEST! My good friend Daniel Allen Cox will be joining the Rainbow Centre on Thursday October 8th to read a selction from his published novel “Shuck” and have a fantastic discussion about all things queer! He is super great so i want to show him a warm Laurier welcome! Come join the party!

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Queerious is back in action and ready for the new year to come! This summer has been a whirlwind of planning and greatness to help make this year at the Rainbow Centre a success! As a special treat to start of the year, the Rainbow Centre is proudly hosting an Open House on Thursday Sept. 17th from 7-10pm in MaChouse 104. We will have refreshments! We will have music! We will have NEW COUCHES! Come in and see our new space, and our new and improved coordinator team!

Be there! I know I will be!

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Mega fashion house Hennes and Mauritz, also know as H&M have once again teamed up with Designers Against AIDS to create their annual Fashion Against AIDS campaign.  Each year, H&M and a team of talented musicians and pop icons come together to create signature teeshirts, tank tops, and bodysuits to help raise awareness and funds for AIDS prevention research. This year, H&M chose to team up with artists such as Katy Perry, N.E.R.D, Dita Von Tease, Estelle, Yelle, Cyndi Lauper, Robyn, Dangerous Muse, Roisin Murphy, Tokio Hotel, Moby, Katarine Harmnett and Yoko Ono to create some fashion forward and cause-worthy apparel. 25% of all the proceeds will be donated to help AIDS prevention research.

To see the complete collection and to find out where your closest H&M is check out http://www.hm.com/ca/#/faa2009/.

I know I purchased a few of the tees myself! Do you think this is a powerful way of raising awareness?

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The Queerious blog is going to undergo some serious changes over the summer so that it will be revamped and reworked! Check back periodically during the summer months to see the minor changes, and check back in September to see a whole new look!

Doesn’t the suspence just make it all worth while?

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