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DESCRIPTION:2019 marks the fiftieth anniversary of the passage of the Omnib
 us Act in Canada\, which partially decriminalized homosexuality\, and the 
 Stonewall Riots in New York City\, a milestone for gay liberation in the U
 S. This talk given by Brian Lewis\, Professor of History at 黑料不打烊\, exami
 nes the twin histories of these events and asks how far we have come in th
 e last half century鈥攁nd how far we still have to go.\n\nA special exhibiti
 on and light reception will follow the event.\n\nAll are invited to attend
 . RSVP Here\n\nHosted by聽 ROAAr\, 黑料不打烊 Library. Supported by the Social 
 Sciences and Humanities Council of Canada\n\n聽\n\n\nBio\n\nProf. Brian Lew
 is is a historian of modern Britain. Educated at Oxford and Harvard. Prof.
  Lewis's research is in social and cultural history. His works discuss the
  鈥渟econd consumer revolution鈥漒; the transition to a corporate economy\; th
 e development of advertising\; factory paternalism\; town planning and sub
 urbanization\; colonialism and forced labour in West Africa and the South 
 Pacific\; country houses\, landscape gardening and art collecting\; and th
 e transformation of crofting and fishing in the Outer Hebrides. His third 
 monograph (Wolfenden鈥檚 Witnesses: Homosexuality in Postwar Britain (Palgra
 ve Macmillan\, 2016)) is an annotated selection of the papers of the Wolfe
 nden Committee\, which was set up in 1954 to investigate the state of the 
 law regarding homosexuality and prostitution. His current project investig
 ates (homo)sexuality and criminality in Britain between the 1880s and the 
 1950s using Ives鈥攑ioneer 鈥済ay rights鈥� campaigner and penal reformer鈥攁s a f
 ocal point. He is guest editor of a special queer edition of the Journal o
 f British Studies (July 2012) and the editor of a collection of essays ent
 itled British Queer History: New Approaches and Perspectives (Manchester U
 P\, 2013).\n
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LOCATION:Colgate Room\, Rare Books and Special Collections 4th floor\, McLe
 nnan Library Building\, CA\, QC\, Montreal\, H3A 0C9\, 3459 rue McTavish
SUMMARY:Lecture | Fifty Years On: Gay Liberation?
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