“We Had Become a Community”:Gays of Ottawa (<scp>go</scp>) and the Birth of Community, 1971–7
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Canada’s lesbian and gay rights movement had an inauspicious birth, starting as it did with the “We Demand” rally, held on a rainy, cold Saturday in August 1971 on a near-empty Parliament Hill. In response, a number of gay men gathered in Ottawa to found Gays of Ottawa (go). Rapidly, go became a prominent organization within the country’s gay rights movement, remaining in operation until 1995. Born into an era when homosexuality was deeply stigmatized, lesbians and gays in Ottawa experienced additional anxieties due to rcmp efforts to remove homosexuals from the federal civil service. Convincing this anxious population to organize – to realize its potential as a community – was the task go set itself. Based on a comprehensive study of go from 1971 to 1995, this article considers events that go executive members believed to be instrumental to creating community. It focuses on the years 1971–7, during which go hosted community dances to foster a sense of community. More importantly, go directly lobbied Ottawa City Council and resisted Ottawa Police actions against gay men. As a result, go came to believe that “we became the community.”
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.005 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.023 | 0.018 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.006 | 0.003 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.005 | 0.001 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".