A Transnational History of Gay Liberation: Print Culture, Visuality, and Racialized Desires in North America, 1971-1994
Bibliographic record
Abstract
This dissertation investigates the relationship between transnational gay liberation politics, print culture, and visuality across North America from the early 1970s to the mid-1990s. The project examines the production, content, circulation, and reception of leading gay periodicals published in Canada, Mexico, and the U.S., including gay liberation newspapers like The Body Politic (Toronto), Gay Sunshine (San Francisco), Política Sexual and Nuestro Cuerpo (Mexico City), as well as gay lifestyle and erotic magazines such as Macho Tips, Hermes, and Del otro lado (Mexico City). The dissertation shows how these periodicals have depicted and used the body as a vehicle for sexual liberation, community-building, and identity-formation. It also demonstrates how the sexual and erotic imagery printed in these publications have played a central role in the transnational history of gay liberation. The overarching argument is that the sexual and erotic imagery in gay periodicals helped to advance gay liberation across borders and was the product of a transnational political economy of desires shaped by class, race, and location. Three factors determined this history: the political foundations of gay periodicals, their transnational nature, and the race and class of their producers and readership. To examine the production, content, circulation, and reception of gay periodicals, the dissertation draws on archival sources and oral history interviews with Canadian, U.S., and Mexican gay men who produced, read, or contributed to gay periodicals in North America, including activists, editors, photographers, illustrators, and artists.
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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 | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.007 | 0.003 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.003 | 0.003 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.006 | 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".