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A collection of essays about the Queer history in Toronto. Named after the song "Any Other Way" by Jackie Shane

Link to the full documentary: https://youtu.be/AtroR6pOHLY The drag queen in this clip, Matti Dinah, represents a more uncommon type of drag for the time, though it becomes more popular after the 2010s, which deals in playing with gender expression…

Link to the full documentary: https://youtu.be/AtroR6pOHLY Jackae Baker, a drag queen who moved to Toronto from British Guiana and lived with her family at the time of the interview in 2002. Her situation, as she described, was quite rare as she…

Link to the full documentary: https://youtu.be/AtroR6pOHLY In this clip, drag queen Stephanie Stevens discusses her life since moving to Toronto, and needing to find her own family. She shares that her family is christian, meaning that her career and…

The front and back of a postcard sent to Makeda Silvera (1989-199?). On the front of this postcard is the title “Go the Way Your Blood Beats: An Anthology of Lesbian and Gay Fiction by African-American Writers”, and on the back there is a photograph…

In "Building an Empire, Uplifting a Race: Race, Uplift, and Transnational Alliances," chapter four of her book, "North of the Color Line," Dr. Saje Mathieu discusses how members of the Order of Sleeping Car Porters worked with other core groups and…