Bibliographic record
Abstract
In this project, I examine a 1970s-1980s era Gay Liberation periodical which developed simultaneously with the Gay Liberation movement. The periodical, The Body Politic, was based in Toronto, Canada and enjoyed a worldwide following and fifteen year lifespan. I analyze the magazine’s content, relevant historical events and legal cases, and collected several oral histories of the founding members, contributors, and staff. I assert that the majority of The Body Politic’s articles can be classified as two forms of rhetoric: gay inclusive and straight exclusive. Using both forms of rhetoric and utilizing social and political dissent, the underlying goal of such rhetoric was the creation of a separatist gay culture: ulterior, distinct, and in opposition with the heterosexual or “dominant culture.” In this fashion, members of the Gay Liberation movement employed dissent to strengthen the solidarity of the gay community and to define the nascent gay culture under a banner of gay nationalism. Using acerbic critique and incendiary discourse, several authors of The Body Politic contributed to a hostile scenario to rally the unity of the gay culture. Fueled by such bellicose rhetoric and radical counterculture intellectualism, the early Gay Liberation movement took an aggressive, confrontational approach to political activism and Civil Disobedience which has affected the divisive nature of North American sexual politics to this day. Examining The Body Politic as a microcosm of the early Gay Liberation movement, I attempt to chart the origins of a specific communal gay identity that oftentimes placed itself at odds with the heterosexual community. Through this study, I attempt to illuminate some of the basis for the tenuous relationship between North American sexual cultures.
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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 | 0.005 | 0.006 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.003 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.015 | 0.034 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.015 | 0.007 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.005 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.004 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.004 | 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".