It's What Makes a House a Homo: Queer and Trans Residential Geographies of Toronto, How Identity and Kinship Influences Inhabitation of Space and Place
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Abstract
Since the inception of Toronto's Church-Wellesley Village, mainstream discourse has classified the neighbourhood as the center of LGBT life in Toronto, grouping and defining LGBTQ2S+ histories and lives into one assumed universal experience (Idlewild, 2016; Nash, 2005; Ghazhani, 2014). Yet, The Village was established on a basis of homonormativity, which created an enclave for primarily white, middle-class, cisgender, gay men (Idlewild, 2016; Nash, 2005). The resulting marginalization of LGBTQIA2S+ individuals who did not conform to constructed norms of sexuality or gender led to their relocation beyond The Village (Nash, 2013; Bitterman & Hess, 2020). This research project explores the locations beyond The Church-Wellesley Village in which LGBTQIA2S+ individuals inhabit, including the neighbourhoods in which they reside, the housing typologies in which they live, and the ways in which identity and kinship influences inhabitation of space and place. A historic exploration of LGBTQIA2S+ dwellings and lives across the City is conducted, and a map of findings is produced. Primary data representing the current landscape is then collected, coded and utilized in forming socio-spatial maps of LGBTQIA2S+ households across Toronto and respective information related to geographic location, dwelling type, identity and kinship. Analysis of the maps is completed through a comparative approach to identify location-based themes and patterns. The project provides a deeper understanding of LGBTQIA2S+ community in Toronto by highlighting the communities' spacial experiences and living needs beyond the basis of cisgender, white, gay men. As individuals of all ages, ethnicities, genders and sexualities reside across the City, intersecting identities, kinship structures and spatial geographies of LGBTQIA2S+ individuals must be considered in order to understand and accommodate the range of lifestyles and households within the LGBTQIA2S+ 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) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.013 | 0.006 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.003 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.007 | 0.000 |
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".