AIDS coverage in The Body Politic, 1981-1987: An annotated bibliography
Bibliographic record
Abstract
[Introduction:] "In the several years after the 1969 Stonewall riots, North America saw the flowering of the gay press in major urban centers. Toronto had numerous gay periodicals of its own prior to this time, but the city's most significant chapter in gay journalism began in November 1971 when The Body Politic published its first issue. The periodical continued for another fifteen years, publishing 135 issues before its demise in February 1987. The Body Politic eventually became the source of some of the best gay journalism in North America. Its influence on the gay and lesbian movement in Canada cannot be overestimated, helping to define gay thought throughout the country and beyond. In fact, The Body Politic was not simply a gay newspaper, but was seen by some as "the house organ of the Canadian gay movement." For its writers, journalism was essentially politics by other means. Many of the important moments in Canadian gay history during this period were played out on the pages of The Body Politic. There are many examples of the political role of the periodical, but the two most prominent examples of this are surely the high-profile obscenity trials sparked by a 1977 article on intergenerational sex, and the key role played by The Body Politic in organizing a response to the notorious bathhouse raids that took place in Toronto between 1978 and 1981. Throughout its history, The Body Politic advocated what were then considered radical gay values: its perspective was consistently community-based, sex-positive, anticensorship, and supportive of choice and self-determination."
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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 | 0.000 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.015 | 0.036 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.004 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.052 | 0.017 |
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".