Queer Toronto on Cable: Rescuing, Remediating, and Reactivating This Show May Be Offenstive to Heterosexuals (1978-1979)
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
This article discusses the groundbreaking screening of the first episode of This Show May Be Offensive to Heterosexuals , a Toronto-based lesbian and gay cable access show produced and aired from 1978 to 1979, at the Global Audiovisual Archiving Conference held at TIFF Lightbox on July 12-14, 2024. In particular, this article asks the following questions: How do we reactivate incomplete audiovisual archival archives that hold important yet neglected local queer histories? How can the recovery of media objects now considered obsolete help counter the presupposed obsolescence of the histories they contain? The author argues that the remediation and reactivation of underrepresented audiovisual archives, namely archives of forgotten media objects created by and for LGBTQ2+ communities, enable contemporary viewers to reckon with queer history’s complexities while providing blueprints for current political interventions.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 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 it