Community and Belonging in the <em>Body Politic</em> (1971–87), Canada’s First Gay Liberation Newspaper
Bibliographic record
Abstract
The cover of the second issue of the Body Politic (1971–87), Canada’s first gay liberation newspaper, featured a photograph of a large house that would become Toronto’s Gay Community Centre. In retrospect, the house foreshadowed what the Body Politic would become in the years to follow — not a house made of brick, but a house all the same, a shelter, a refuge, a ‘meeting spot’ for the gay community in Canada and beyond. The Body Politic and/as community is at the center of this article, which attends to the physical copies of the paper as well as unpublished correspondence between the readers and the Collective to argue that, through their editorial activism, members of the Body Politic Collective and the Body Politic itself fostered affective readerly communities locally, nationally, and transnationally. In my thinking of affective readerly communities, I draw on Sara Ahmed’s theorizing of ‘affective economies’ and Fionnuala Dillane’s discussion of affect, ‘periodical encounters’, and ‘affective ruptures’ to show how editorial labour at the Body Politic encouraged affective relations in and outside the physical pages of the paper.
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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 | 0.002 | 0.005 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.035 | 0.019 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.012 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.004 |
| 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".